STUMP'D Interview Questions - CSS Edition

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes are back with another edition of “Stump’d!” where they try to stump each other with interview questions. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Cloudinary - Sponsor Cloudinary is the best way to manage images and videos in the cloud. Edit and transform for any use case, from performance to personalization, using Cloudinary’s APIs, SDKs, widgets, and integrations. Show Notes 06:05 - Which property allows you to control the shape or appearance of the marker of a list? 06:33 - What is a pseudo element? What is a pseudo class? 09:15 - What is the difference between block, inline and inline-block elements? 10:15 - What is a combinator selector? 11:12 - What is specificity? How do you calculate specificity? 14:37 - True or False — The translate() function can move the position of an element on the z-axis? 16:44 - What is the difference between “resetting” and “normalizing” CSS? 17:51 - How can you load CSS resources conditionally? 19:45 - Is there any reason you’d want to use translate() instead of absolute positioning, or vice-versa? 22:30 - When to use CSS grid vs flexbox? 25:12 - What are all eight @-rules in CSS? 28:01 - Which property is used to underline, overline, and strikethrough text? 29:52 - What is DOM reflow? 32:14 - How do you serve your pages for feature-constrained browsers? What techniques do you use? 34:00 - What is the property for controlling image-scroll? 36:23 - What are the three different types of CSS gradients? Links https://github.com/sudheerj/javascript-interview-questions https://github.com/learning-zone/css-interview-questions ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: https://height.app/ Wes: Anker Mini Car Charger Shameless Plugs Scott: Astro Course - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Advanced React Course - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready. Here is Scott Tullinsky and West Boss.
0:10.4	Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats.
0:15.7	Today, we have stumped for you. Stumped is a game that we play here on the show where Scott and I
0:21.6	try to ask each other interview questions about web development and we see if the other person
0:27.6	can answer them. Usually, we make fools of ourselves and we learn a thing or two along the way.
0:33.5	Today, we're going to focus entirely on CSS. Last time, we did one on just JavaScript questions,
0:38.4	so today is entirely CSS questions. So buckle up for that. Today, we are sponsored by
0:43.4	three awesome companies, Sanity, which is a structured content CMS century, which is an error
0:51.5	exception and performance tracking and cloud an area. Does your image hosting transformation
0:57.6	optimization? You name it. We'll talk about all that in part way through the episode.
1:02.4	I'm really excited to talk to Scott today because he says he has a story about a bar and he won't
1:06.9	tell me until he starts the show. Cracking up about this right now, I'm like, yeah,
1:12.4	so to give you some context, I live in a major city. This is not like in the wilderness here.
1:17.5	Was it last week or a week ago? There was a thing on the ring app and it's like,
1:22.7	hey, there's a bear in the neighborhood over here. I looked at the map and it's like, I don't know,
1:28.2	it's a pretty good distance from our house. It's a couple of miles. I'm like, okay, that's weird
1:32.9	that there's a bear here and a bunch of people are like, I've never seen a bear in Denver. There's
1:36.6	no way there's an actually a bear here because yeah, maybe in Boulder right there in the foothills
1:40.1	whatever. Bearing Denver. No, I don't think that's the thing. And then I get another ring alert,
1:45.0	maybe you know, 20 minutes later and it's like, hey, I just saw a bear in the neighborhood and then
1:49.5	this one's like two blocks from our house. And I was just like, oh my gosh, this bear is like
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