--- title: CSS Hooks | daily.dev description: Hooks enhance inline styles, allowing effortless styling for states like hover, focus, and active. They promote local reasoning and make server-side rendering... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/css-hooks-pnjli6roi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: CSS Hooks | daily.dev og:description: Hooks enhance inline styles, allowing effortless styling for states like hover, focus, and active. 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Copy link WhatsApp Facebook X New Squad Copy linkShare with your friends 153 16 ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"CSS Hooks","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/css-hooks-pnjli6roi","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/css-hooks-pnjli6roi"},"datePublished":"2023-11-30T09:53:07.738Z","dateModified":"2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z","description":"Hooks enhance inline styles, allowing effortless styling for states like hover, focus, and active. 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What is the benefit over using Tailwind etc?","datePublished":"2023-12-11T12:39:29.168Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/PnJlI6roI#c-E4LY4tSlF","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Roger T. Miller","url":"https://daily.dev/rmiller","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/95699484?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Personally I see no benefit to it. Better to use CSS modules in my opinion.","datePublished":"2023-12-14T16:36:05.817Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/PnJlI6roI#c-0NqV5CEFP","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Wiktoria","url":"https://daily.dev/wiktoria","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/62669899?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"All I see is a copy of vuejs, without attributing it to vuejs, or championing that vuejs “just works” like this\nI wonder why …?","datePublished":"2024-01-17T09:50:29.433Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/PnJlI6roI#c-U8AuVXeyC","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris","url":"https://daily.dev/stof","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3494633?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```