Are you using the right CSS units?
Kevin Powell Kevin Powell
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 Published On Feb 12, 2021

There are a lot of different units that we can use when writing CSS, in this video I give some general rules of thumb of which ones are best suited for which situations.

Zell's article on media queries: https://zellwk.com/blog/media-query-u...

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