--- title: CSS Best Practices: 16 Ways to Improve Your CSS Skills... description: By adhering to basic guidelines for writing CSS, you can make sure you produce clean, legible, and easily supportable code. Make your code readable and make it... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/css-best-practices-16-ways-to-improve-your-css-skills-quickly-84zxcpdzg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: CSS Best Practices: 16 Ways to Improve Your CSS Skills Quickly | daily.dev og:description: By adhering to basic guidelines for writing CSS, you can make sure you produce clean, legible, and easily supportable code. Make your code readable and make it... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/css-best-practices-16-ways-to-improve-your-css-skills-quickly-84zxcpdzg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/84ZXcPDZg.png og:image:alt: CSS Best Practices: 16 Ways to Improve Your CSS Skills Quickly og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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. # CSS Best Practices: 16 Ways to Improve Your CSS Skills Quickly **[Torque](https://daily.dev/sources/torquemag)** · 11 min read · 189 upvotes · 10 comments ## Summary By adhering to basic guidelines for writing CSS, you can make sure you produce clean, legible, and easily supportable code. Make your code readable and make it more comfortable to understand, maintain, and work with. If there is an existing style guide, stick with that. ## 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. **@buondevid** · 6 upvotes > I stopped reading at _put your declarations in alphabetical order_ 😅 **@gabriel\_aboo** · 3 upvotes > No alphabetical order please, organize properties by logical rules, you can rearrange code the way you want with many IDEs but alphabetical has no sense here. i may be wrong but i feel it really wrong as there is a lot of things between properties like "height" and "width" (just an example) but those things are strongly related, think about display things (flex and all the subprop on it)... **@humblemuzzu** · 2 upvotes > Great Article 👌 for me and all the beginners **@lakshanediri** · 0 upvotes > This post is very useful for beginners. The content is well-structured and informative. 🙌❤️ **@rubylenshy** · 0 upvotes > A nice write up. 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The content is well-structured and informative. 🙌❤️","datePublished":"2025-04-15T12:18:17.633Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/84ZXcPDZg#c-DdmwdGxzn","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Lakshan Edirisinghe","url":"https://daily.dev/lakshanediri","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJxtIzSbSQYxQSnnvfuCJfck4I6dmk2GQinoXdEKhTS2Q48IQ=s96-c"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"A nice write up. We all can’t be perfect at this","datePublished":"2022-11-17T15:08:45.148Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/84ZXcPDZg#c-QRf-MKos5","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Reuben Tomoloju","url":"https://daily.dev/rubylenshy","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/72923646?v=4"}}]} ```