I Challenged The CSS King To A CSS Battle
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 18. 05. 2024
- For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to challenge Kevin Powell, the CSS king, to a CSS battle. Will I lose miserably? Probably, but at least it will be fun.
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â±ïž Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - Round 1
07:45 - Round 2
23:23 - Round 3
37:03 - Outro
#CSSBattle #WDS #KevinPowell
Was a ton of fun, and looking forward to a rematch!
How is this comment 3 days ago, but the vid came out today the 19th
3 days ago ? đł
I think the video was private and Kevin was granted a permission to comment it
@@ahmaat19 makes sense.
Poor Kevin typing semicolons after "display" when you wanted to use grid! The pressure! Haha
Professors In College: Name your classes properly
King of CSS: uhmmm.... inner-inner-inner
I am in comment-comment-comment,,
@@Rhidayah I reply-reply-reply
aah-aah-aah
ha-ha-ha
lol-lol-lol
To see two professionals struggle like that makes you think: maybe this whole developing-thing IS possible.
Idk about everyone, but realizing this is crucial for some novice developers who keep beating themselves over nothing. It's okay to screw up and not have a clue about what to do. It's important not to lose confidence. The solution will be figured out eventually.
@@vaguebrownfox You are right. It's also important to understand that you'll never quit learning. In the beginning I thought: "First I gonna learn CSS and when that's finished, I'll start with Javascript." That epiphany quickly came to an end as I realized the dimensions of each language. So cross-platform-learning became a thing.
@@vaguebrownfox i wasted 6hours on making a navigationbar with "under-categories"
Ended up not doing it cuz the tutorials i had were bad or not mobile-compitable
AND IM STILL MOTIVATED
@@vaguebrownfox thanks buddy needed that..i was fed up just because i was unable to fix some prob
Impostor syndrome is real guys. You're all good, keep learning!
Me trying to watch other people battle with code
CZcams ad : "So you wanna be a software engineer at Google"
AlgoExpert io!
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That's Googol tho.đđđ
Google showed me a McCormick spice ad: âBack to the kitchen with you! Why are you thinking of coding?âđđ€Ł
@@HeatherAlarcon no way đđ
Watching this totally clueless đđđ
Dev ed, Kevin Powell and Web dev simplified fans !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All my favourite creators watching this đ
@@anuragsinghbam How cool is that, bro?
I love dev ed...
@@sodiumsulfur2779 That was really cool bro.
Kyle: "let's use a section to be more semantic"
Kevin: "haha inner inner go brrll"
So u watch Dani his jokes be poppij off lol 0_0
@@upsurge5541 people - u cant just make stupid jokes
dani-haha brr go brrrrr
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I am dying đ€Łđ€Ł
Kevin: "I really enjoy CSS"
Me: Still traumatized by it
saaaaame ! had a css problem that messed me up , i solved it in a whole week lol
had images that needed to be symmetrically displayed and equal in width and height and space between
solved it finally with display grid-template-column(4,1fr)
â€ïžđ czcams.com/video/lmIwYLFYZ9U/video.html đâ€ïž..
27:31: Kevin put ";" instead of ":" after "place-items" that's why it didn't centered
On the last element it shouldn't matter, I always thought
@@tweschke3 It is about the syntax and yeah it did matter
Oh yeah of course, i thought He Put a ":" at the end instead of a ";"
my god I saw that and I was so uncomfortable... I was literally screaming "DUDE, you wrote a ; instead of a :
@@emiljano1733 and he calls himself the CSS KING #jk
Definetly one of the best ways to learn is to watch people solving problems in realtime. Awesome content!
True but the meaning of cssbattle is to write so close to nothing, so the fixes they show might not be optimal
@@CodeZhifty have you seen some of the cssbattle answers? that shit is ridiculous and usually only applies to that exact image.
I hate frontend
@@supernova82 keeps getting recommended
I agree 100%, while thinking about my own solution, I enjoyed this content
27:40 - that one damned semi-column, can relate to it rather well lol
semi-column lol
Tip:
body {
margin: 0;
}
I have a snippet I call CSS Reset that I always import at the start of each project's CSS files. It resets things like these all the way to some other personal annoyances like text-decoration: underline.
tip:
*{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
bro amazing channel you have
@@mansoorroeen5209 personally I feel it can change somerthing I dont want to if you'd use it in web development
i know right is box-sizing: border-box; illegal here?
border-radius: 0 50% 50% 50%;
That was driving my crazy watching the last match
Same but... border-radius:0 50% 50%; đ
@@reggielj Some prefer having non shorthand version as it is faster to orient in it, but nothing wrong with both versions.
@@Saver174HowTo True, I was thinking more of what's faster to write in CSS Battle race. ;D
It was driving me crazy too!
I was thinking the same.
it's so reassuring to watch other devs going through trial and error
yeah i'm totally zen now
yay! This was real fun to watch! Thanks for doing this you two! ^_^ Looking forward to seeing more CSS battles :D
It was a ton of fun. I look forward to doing more and hopefully sucking less :P
@@WebDevSimplified I wouldn't be so hard on yourself you did awesome!
It is the real cssbattle devs? Why only 11 subs tho?
@@awekeningbro1207 Yes, its the official one. We started our channel recently and there is not much content. So building up slowly. Please do subscribe us for awesome stuff incoming :)
Lovely website pal
"I wonder why it didn't work last time" story of all my code
I love seeing other devs go through the thought process in real time...thinking your on the right track and then the "Oh wait...this wont work, lets think about this..". The more scripted tutorials are always great but these videos are the inspiration to show that anyone can learn to dev with practice and many iterations. Great content!!
"i spelled square wrong", i felt that.
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â€ïžđ czcams.com/video/lmIwYLFYZ9U/video.html đâ€ïž..
Me: He's CSS king, he must be crazy good at naming convention and writes a clean and organized understandable code.
CSS kimg: đ inner-inner-inner. Understandable have a good day.
What would be the correct professional naming convention
You can see the moment Kevin loses confidence and starts to doubt himself. The pressure of competition isn't for everyone! Good job to both.
I for one really hate it, like doing it my way
I thought I was the only one who struggle. After watching CSS king struggle, I feel like we are not too far from being on the same boat đ. Thanks for the video guys.
Exactly
ahaha I was dying at the class="sqaure" troubleshooting
No it was when the "CSS King" scrapped place items centre because it was place-items; centre;
He didnt notice the colon is a semicolon lol
The place item and the typo on square bothered me so much. Itâs insane how such things mess coders up so badly
@@somewhatBoring but he makes meme the "sqaure" make it cracks đ€Ł
@@kgenextreme the every programmer nightmare. Bug of typo
@@Rhidayah ok. Btw the last challenge is sooooo ez that 9 year old me can do it in less thab 2 minutes
This was great watching how the two of you tackled achieving the same result using different techniques. So much value in this video. Thank you and please do more.
Just got into css battles because of these videos. Watching you guys sometimes was painful, when both of you were overcomplicating things because you did not see what I did. So naturally I had to try it myself. And now i'm hooked...
This needs a clock overlay, some music and you two grilling each other on your fails afterwards
Yes!
So pros too make speculations đ€
This should work, tried, it didn't work.
This may not work, tried, it worked. đ
Gives me hope
Wow Kevin Powell is all instinct. So crazy he seemingly stumbles into the right solution but it's all his learned instinct. He definitely could've had the second one but was definitely flustered knowing he would be watched.
Enjoyed watching and seeing each of you taking a different approach to the same challenge. Awesome!
You guys are amazing! learned so much from both of you! Thank you!
Before this I knew I wasn't that good at CSS, but after watching this video I realize I suck at CSS.
Ikr đ€Ł i thought i was fullstack but now i kinda feel much more backend without the help of CSS frameworks or libraries
LOL me too! Too funny! I feel that!
@@goldengiorno6890 But i don't actually see a practical use of such hard types of css.
I mean yeah that's true you don't get hired by drawing shapes with pure CSS but i think it's still really important to know those kind of things. Let's say you want to build a full website and you're styling with some CSS framework. You don't want your website to appear like some other default one but something unique and that's what CSS frameworks or libraries actually provide. They give you a foundation of styles and you are the one who needs to customise them. It's here where pure CSS actually help ans it's here where there is problems. You can ofc find a solution by bringing some other JS library and thus making your code not just horrible but also bloating your project with extra libraries and data which can result of a really bad user experience. But you may in this case use those CSS properties that you found useless to style the same way as another guy who bloated his website with useless libraries and trust me this makes a huge difference. Quite a long answer but just to tell you that pure CSS actually matters a lot and even those little CSS properties can make a difference.
Shoot that's a long answer i didn't knew i wrote that much đ¶
Wow.
Thanks for reminding me of my deep hatred towards CSS.
It's actually interesting
Best comment ever.
I think you haven't tried javascript
@@nandansojitra8803 i like css better than js. js language is so complicated while in css you could just type it like placing block over and over
@@max-tp1xv css is shit it takes a day to position something properly
Watching you guys struggle was so hilarious. Guys you made my day!
This was so fun to watch. Awesome content! Look forward to more on these.
The moment he was not able to find the square on the design was really funnyy.
We need more content like this! It shows we are all humans and sometimes we donât know how to do things
What I like best about these battles is that-unlike scripted, pre-planned content-they show you that even the most seasoned developers don't just regurgitate code onto a screen having it come out perfectly the first time.
It's funny when you are able to do the work EASILY and then you see how the "professionals" struggle with it and just brute force it with specific pixel placements... Bruh.
I tried the blue letter "b" thing. They could just use:
body>div.outer-circle>div.inner-circle>div.inner-line
body {
//flex and center children with justify-content and align-items
}
.outer-circle {
border-radius: 50%;
border-top-left-radius: 0;
display: flex;
//justify and align on center
}
.circle-inner {
//width and height to 50% (it's exactly half of the outer circle)
position: relative;
}
.inner-line {
transform-origin: bottom right;
bottom: 50%;
position: absolute;
width: 50% //it's exactly half of the inner circle, hence it's its child
height: 100%; //it has to cover exactly the height of the inner circle to cover the outer circle as well, and not go beyond necessary boundaries.
I came up with this solution in my head in 10 seconds, coded it working in probably 5 minutes. And as a bonus it's adaptive for all screen resolutions. Kinda cringed at these "CSS King" nicknames. CSS is too easy to be a king on it, it has a very low skill ceiling, and even if you can't solve something on your own there are hundreds of ready solutions in the web waiting for your Google search. It's just matter of time and quality. And seeing his class naming conventions, his "workaround patch fix" solutions and so much time spent I don't see a king there.
Anyway that's just my criticism of their skill and ONLY because of the "King of CSS" title which imo doesn't show in THIS particular battle.
Also the stripes in the green/yellow circles job could've been done with linear gradient in like 5 seconds.
It's fair if you say I'm a b1t©h for saying all this but on my defence there is the fact that they can't center a block vertically
â@@theseangle "You Come At the King,You Best Not Miss"
@@theseangle there's just no way to believe you, if you make a video of yourself doing a challenge you've never done before while competiting against another person and still do it in 10 seconds then that's believable, not when you're not competiting against anyone and have all the time you need and there's no video filming
@@Tenchi707 well don't believe me, I don't care. Since then I have been working as a Frontend Developer and these challenges are pretty difficult, except for the ones that they chose for this video. Kevin Powell is indeed a CZcams CSS king, just not as much in this specific video.
There's also the factor of being able to touch type and do it fast, which will obviously increase your speed. Well I've got 90 WPM typing speed. Combine it with the first possible solution that came to my head and it takes less than 5 minutes in total for a challenge like the letter b.
Just gotta think in markup
this video is AMAZING! it helps so much to see two different minds trying to each solve the challenge, for me it's just as educational to watch than it is fun. Thank You Guys!
Loving this! Unique addition to your channel! Keep them coming!
Do battle with Dev Ed. We love watching that
Why you do this
@@sarcasticdna why u du dis !! đŻđđ»
There would be too much laughing lol!
Dev Ed. will be busy showing his magic tricks
Using box-shadow property and before, after pseudo elements in these type of css challenges saves a lot of divs
You guys are great, watching the battle and coding along help improve my css skills, more show please
Wow, *Great* CSS battle, very entertaining and it helped me alot in my current website redesign - thanks again and you rock!
Kevin is definitely the goat of CSS in our current circle of coding friends. So cool to see you both making a collaboration. Excellent job!
I was struggling today with css and web dev simplied got a platform for me to practice â„
This was awesome. Loved seeing you guys fumble through round 2. I did a jam sesh at work about 2 weeks ago and stumbled through that challenge as well.
I still don't understand how that can be done :D
Great video for learning! Thank you both!
Kevin: So you have chosen death!
the most interesting parts: how you named stuff the same, and how you went about it differently. i liked the contrast.
This and the rematch are my favorite videos of the year
THIS is SOOOO good!! I could not stop watching, thank you guys!
Neither of them using "border-radius: 0 50% 50% 50%;" was just maddening.
Alternatively they could've added "border-radius-top-left: 0;"
nobody:
literally no soul on planet earth:
kevin: i rEallY enJoY cSS
holy cow watching you guys speed through the first part and talk through the thoughts was insanely eye opening for me, and I'm sure many others.
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We need more of these!
haha "I'm a little bit nervous...hopefully I crush him."
i've never writtern in CSS but hoooly this battles are so interesting
Holy hell man. I didn't know this was gonna be this much fun. Superb video.
This was so much fun to watch, and helped me learn some things, too! Thank you.
Two of my favorite youtubers together! yey!
I think I can do last one more easily. Will try at morning. Really enjoyed so much. Best wishes for both of youâ€
Loved this! Also glad Iâm not the only one who is like âwhy isnât it workingâ only to find itâs a typo.
Kevin, besides awesome dev skills, you also have an amazing sense of humor! I've really had fun watching this video. Thank you.
"I spelled square wrong" I lost it there đđ Great content, Kyle!
I didn't knew that making the Bixby button would result in such a 10 minute struggle.
Awesome battle, it was very entertaining and fun to watch.
Thanks guys for this. I've learned a truck-load watching your videos @Kevin, and after a day spent working on some other CSS stuff watched this video to see how the pros tackled the unknown. And I was surprised to find that the challenges faced, for me were surprisingly easy to complete with 99% success the first time. Like I said, that's a direct result of learning from you.
VERY ENTERTAINING!! I love the short clips đđđ
More like this please.
That was awesome!! And at the same time discouraging, I was completely lost in the first challenge. In the other two at least I had some idea of what they were doing. Man, I really need to step up my game. You both are great!
I second that comment!
Yea i have no idea how a triangle was made but other was fun cause they had their own ideas and i had my own too
I loved it. Thank you for the video đ
Fun to watch, but learned a little and love seeing others making multiple small changes/corrections to values to get right look.
22:21: ~ almost losing, manages to draw the Eye of Sauron. He truly is the CSS King
Sauron: So, you have chosen CSS.
i been waiting for this......two of the best developers
We really need more content of people actually working through and reverse engineering something. I love this because I feel like you took me through your thinking process which not a lot of people show. Overall super interesting! I liked and subbedđđŒ
It was fun to see you struggle.
You gave me confidence to keep learningđ
My neighbour literally knocked on my door to see why I was laughing so loud. Thank you guys for the great laugh, was hilarious :D
Things I find very reassuring in this video: CSS experts looking confused and saying, "That should work!"
Linear-gradient backgrounds would have saved you a lot of time and extra divs on both the circle & lines exercise and the funky circle/line. I always struggle with triangles so thanks for the refresher. This is a fun challenge! I am going to have to go do some on my own. Keep killing it!
This was freaking funny to watch đ great content.. looking forward for more battles :))
Seeing these guys struggle with the first challenge gave me so much hope for myself. See ya in the workforce, boooooyyyys.
all of the challenges werent that... I dont get how they messed up the second one.
Watching the CSS king struggle with round three which for me was pretty easy to recreate is sooooooooo satisfying. đ
And I just learned CSS this week from his introductory Course on Scrimba.
okay that was fun wathcing you two guys great content! :D
This inspired me a lot!! Thank you
For the second round, I would have chosen a div (display: flex; and flex-direction: column) with 7 children, each odd child to have a different color (and flex: 1 to make them equal). To cut it into a circle I would have used clip-path: circle (); on the parent container. It would have been short and efficient.
For the third round, it is worth using border-radius: 0 50% 50% 50%. The upper left corner would have remained unchanged and the others would have been rounded.
However, the fact that you posted a video in which you did not do everything perfectly makes me glad that I have been watching you both for so long! Congratulations!
Hind sight is always 20-20 tho ;-)
i havent use clip path before but i was thinking of same but would have make a transparent outer circle with overflow hidden ! thats what i think will work ! havent tried yet though
@@back4stab this is how it looks like with clip-path:
.parent-rectangle {
height: 200px;
width: 400px;
clip-path: circle(60%);
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.child-line {
flex: 1;
background-color: white;
}
.child-line:nth-child(even) {
background-color: orange;
}
Actually... round 2 at 14:15 you literally just need two more dark green div. Put it between the bigger and smaller circle z-index, so it only cover the bigger circle.
but the bigger circle should draw over the smaller one
5:33 you made me feel better about the times I write lines of code, it doesn't work how I expect it to, then I scrap the lot and start again. Glad to see it's not just me.
I love that show the mistakes and how you have solved them
In the second one we can use
border-top-left-radius: 0;
And it'll be done.
It's harder to think when we're in hurry đ
I was thinking that they are gonna use it immediately.
I'm guessing you mean the 3rd one (with blue background). Second was with yellow stripes
Dude, this one I pressed like before I watch!! Cool!
I always do the same.
I love this type of video please please please do more with more CZcams devs!!! Thank you so much!
Very great video and thanks Kyle, for introducing me to Kevin, didn't know about him, subbed!
why didn't you had a voice call in the end. would have been interesting
For the three CSS creators, I would launch them the challenge to create a solid tutorial about **flex-shrink** which is not well explained nor in (simplest) W3Schools, not in (the advanced) MDN neither in expert world of StackOverflow. I consider it a very important thing for responsive design since smartphones were created except for grid and media queries maybe. If they cannot do it at highest level I would put myself to work to make it ;) Btw tell me if you find useful this small one here: font-size: minmax(calc(0.5em + 1vw), 16px)
Cheers to all coders out there !
This was really fun to watch đŻ
Never bored to watch your video :)
Great video as always!
Moral of the story: Everything can be fixed with liberal appliance of divs.
20:41 , here's solution :
1. make a circle exactly same as yellow and same position.
2. make border same as size of lines. and adjust circle position.
3. make border top and bottom same as background color. other two will transparent.
4. make circle background transparent.
5. make those middle lines above them all ( z-index : 500; )
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Thanks for reading.
đ Hva Great Day .
My take is using rgba gradient
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This is awesome..please make more videos like this
These are so much fun to code along with in my laptops full viewport. So many cool tricks that can be adapted.
At round 3 I was like:
border-radius: 0% 50% 50% 50%;
Only one div with a border
Yeah can also be
border-radius: 50%;
border-top-right-radius: 0;
you were right, it was so simple(took me 2min 10sec), although not under-pressure
/* HTML */
/* CSS */
body {
display: grid;
place-items: center;
height: 100vh;
}
.outer {
border-radius: 0% 50% 50% 50%;
background: lightcoral;
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
display: grid;
place-items: center;
}
.inner {
background: #fff;
width: 50%;
height: 50%;
border-radius: 50%;
position: relative;
}
.inner::before {
content: '';
width: 50%;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: -50%;
background: #fff;
}
@@sidharthsid3429
* {
margin: 0;
}
body {
display: grid;
place-items: center;
height: 100vh;
background: #6592CF;
}
body > div {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
border: 50px solid #243D83;
border-radius: 0% 50% 50% 50%;
position: relative;
}
div div {
background: #6592CF;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
position: absolute;
top: -50px;
}
or so :)
Same man. Dunno why do they did it?
14:08 - why does the "Last Score" say 100% Match?
He is a sneaky bitch who had solved this problem beforehand
That was fun to watch. Thanks, guys!
These are great to watch, and educational. I'm an ex-coder now project manager, and learning css just for fun is great. Tearing my hair out on the circle one - just use a border on the circle one, transparent one side and rotate!