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What is CSS?
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How to use variables in Sass?
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Explain CSS sprites, and how you would implement them on a page or site.
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Explain the CSS “box model” and the layout components that it consists of
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What is a CSS rule?
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Explain what is a @extend directive used for in Sass?
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Have you played around with the new CSS Flexbox or Grid specs?
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What is DOM (Document Object Model) and how is it linked to CSS?
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What is Sass?
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What existing CSS frameworks have you used locally, or in production? How would you change/improve them?
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Describe floats and how they work
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What Selector Nesting in Sass is used for?
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List out the key features for Sass?
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What is the difference between classes and IDs in CSS?
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List out the data types that Sass supports
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What is variable interpolation in Sass? Provide some examples.
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What's the difference between SCSS and Sass?
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Explain the usage of "table-layout" property
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What's the difference between a relative, fixed, absolute and statically positioned element?
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Have you ever worked with retina graphics? If so, when and what techniques did you use?
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What are the advantages/disadvantages of using CSS preprocessors?
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How is responsive design different from adaptive design?
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What is CSS selectors? Name some.
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What does Accessibility (a11y) mean?
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What is CSS preprocessor and why to user one?
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How would you approach fixing browser-specific styling issues?
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What’s the difference between “resetting” and “normalizing” CSS? Which would you choose, and why?
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Explain your understanding of the box model and how you would tell the browser in CSS to render your layout in different box models.
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Describe pseudo-elements and discuss what they are used for.
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How does CSS actually work (under the hood of browser)?
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What is a Grid System in CSS?
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What is a Mixin and how to use on?
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How to create a zebra striped table with CSS?
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Explain the purpose of clearing floats in CSS
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What does * { box-sizing: border-box; } do? What are its advantages?
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Can you explain the difference between coding a website to be responsive versus using a mobile-first strategy?
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Explain the basic rules of CSS Specificity
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How do you optimize your webpages for print?
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Have you ever used a grid system, and if so, what do you prefer?
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What are the different ways to visually hide content (and make it available only for screen readers)?
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Describe z-index and how a stacking context is formed
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Is there any reason you'd want to use translate() instead of absolute positioning, or vice-versa? And why?
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What the code fragment has the greater CSS specificity?
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What will be the CSS output for the following Sass code?
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What is the @content directive used for?
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Write down a selector that will match any links end in .zip, .ZIP, .Zip etc...
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How to style every element which has an adjacent item right before it?
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What’s wrong with Sass nesting? Provide some example.
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What clearfix methods do you know? Provide some examples.
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