--- title: "6 CSS Shorthand properties to improve your web application" url: https://daily.dev/posts/6-css-shorthand-properties-to-improve-your-web-application-0qukm7njm source_url: https://dev.to/cscarpitta/6-css-shorthand-properties-to-improve-your-web-application-2dbj type: article source: "DEV" published: 2021-08-23T06:53:12.487Z updated: 2026-03-15T03:56:38.964Z tags: ["css", "general-programming", "html"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 20 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 6 CSS Shorthand properties to improve your web application **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 4 min read · 20 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary CSS is a language used to describe how a web page should look like. With CSS we can set position, colors, fonts, layout of each element in an HTML page. In this blog post I will share some tips to improve your CSS code and the performance of your web app. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@max** · 0 upvotes > I don't completely agree. Writing these shorthands creates some abstraction (think of the `background` or `font` property) which sometimes makes it harder to read in my opinion. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#html](https://daily.dev/tags/html) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/6-css-shorthand-properties-to-improve-your-web-application-0qukm7njm)