--- title: Improve your CSS with these 5 principles | daily.dev description: Writing CSS at a professional level will make the CSS code more maintainable, extensible, understandable and cleaner. We're going to look at the five simple... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/improve-your-css-with-these-5-principles-mjv-h2doy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Improve your CSS with these 5 principles | daily.dev og:description: Writing CSS at a professional level will make the CSS code more maintainable, extensible, understandable and cleaner. We're going to look at the five simple... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/improve-your-css-with-these-5-principles-mjv-h2doy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mJv-H2doy.png og:image:alt: Improve your CSS with these 5 principles 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. # Improve your CSS with these 5 principles **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · [@code_adrian](https://daily.dev/code_adrian) · 4 min read · 45 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Writing CSS at a professional level will make the CSS code more maintainable, extensible, understandable and cleaner. We're going to look at the five simple and very effective principles that will take your CSS to the next level. Writing CSS is really simple and straightforward, so why is there a need for principles and best-practices while writing CSS? ## 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. **@theophiledt** · 2 upvotes > Very quick to read and useful. **@rfornal** · 1 upvotes > Interesting take on the SOLID principles. I need to go back and re-read this article a few times. Excellent work! --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/improve-your-css-with-these-5-principles-mjv-h2doy) ```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":"Improve your CSS with these 5 principles","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/improve-your-css-with-these-5-principles-mjv-h2doy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/improve-your-css-with-these-5-principles-mjv-h2doy"},"datePublished":"2020-11-18T08:56:08.855Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:37:12.477Z","description":"Writing CSS at a professional level will make the CSS code more maintainable, extensible, understandable and cleaner. 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