Semantic Patterns for Styling Common Design Components

Abstract

When developers talk about patterns, they are really talking about tasks, or things they have to do often. In the case of a CSS developer, common tasks might be creating a sidebar, styling a footer, skinning a navigation bar, or creating a mobile- or print-ready layout from an existing design. In turn, each of these tasks can be broken up into smaller chunks of work, where each chunk can be encoded into a particular CSS rule or groups of rules. The goal of creating patterns is to make these rules generic enough that they can be used with minimal modifications in more than one place.