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I’m trying to come up with ways to make components more customizable, more efficient, and easier to use and understand, and I want to describe a pattern I’ve been leaning into using CSS Cascade Layers.

I enjoy organizing code and find cascade layers a fantastic way to organize code explicitly as the cascade looks at it. The neat part is, that as much as it helps with “top-level” organization, cascade layers can be nested, which allows us to author more precise styles based on the cascade.

The only downside here is your imagination, nothing stops us from over-engineering CSS. And to be clear, you may very well consider what I’m about to show you as a form of over-engineering. I think I’ve found a balance though, keeping things simple yet organized, and I’d like to share my findings.

The anatomy of a CSS component pattern

Let’s explore a pattern for writing components in CSS using a button as an example. Buttons are one of the more popular components found in just about every component library. There’s good reason for that popularity because buttons can be used for a variety of use cases, including:

• performing actions, like opening a drawer,
• navigating to different sections of the UI, and
• holding some form of state, such as focus or hover.

And buttons come in several different flavors of markup, like , input[type="button"], and . There are even more ways to make buttons than that, if you can believe it.

On top of that, different buttons perform different functions and are often styled accordingly so that a button for one type of action is distinguished from another. Buttons also respond to state changes, such as when they are hovered, active, and focused. If you have ever written CSS with the BEM syntax, we can sort of think along those lines within the context of cascade layers.

.button {}
.button-primary {}
.button-secondary {}
.button-warning {}
/* etc. */

Okay, now, let’s write some code. Specifically, let’s create a few different types of buttons. We’ll start with a .button class that we can set on any element that we want to be styled as, well, a button! We already know that buttons come in different flavors of markup, so a generic .button class is the most reusable and extensible way to select one or all of them.

.button {
  /* Styles common to all buttons */
}

Using a cascade layer

This is where we can insert our very first cascade layer! Remember, the reason we want a cascade layer in the first place is that it allows us to set the CSS Cascade’s reading order when evaluating our styles. We can tell CSS to evaluate one layer first, followed by another layer, then another — all according to the order we want. This is an incredible feature that grants us superpower control over which styles “win” when applied by the browser.

We’ll call this layer components because, well, buttons are a type of component. What I like about this naming is that it is generic enough to support other components in the future as we decide to expand our design system. It scales with us while maintaining a nice separation of concerns with other styles we write down the road that maybe aren’t specific to components.

/* Components top-level layer */
@layer components {
  .button {
    /* Styles common to all buttons */
  }
}

Nesting cascade layers

Here is where things get a little weird. Did you know you can nest cascade layers inside classes? That’s totally a thing. So, check this out, we can introduce a new layer inside the .button class that’s already inside its own layer. Here’s what I mean:

/* Components top-level layer */
@layer components {

  .button {
    /* Component elements layer */
    @layer elements {
      /* Styles */
    }
  }
}

This is how the browser interprets that layer within a layer at the end of the day:

@layer components {
  @layer elements {
    .button {
      /* button styles... */
    }
  }
}

This isn’t a post just on nesting styles, so I’ll just say that your mileage may vary when you do it. Check out Andy Bell’s recent article about using caution with nested styles.

Structuring styles

So far, we’ve established a .button class inside of a cascade layer that’s designed to hold any type of component in our design system. Inside that .button is another cascade layer, this one for selecting the different types of buttons we might encounter in the markup. We talked earlier about buttons being

, , or and this is how we can individually select style each type.

We can use the :is() pseudo-selector function as that is akin to saying, “If this .button is an element, then apply these styles.”

/* Components top-level layer */
@layer components {
  .button {
    /* Component elements layer */
    @layer elements {
      /* styles common to all buttons */

      &:is(a) {
        /* <a> specific styles */
      }

      &:is(button) {
        /* <button> specific styles */
      }

      /* etc. */
    }
  }
}

Defining default button styles

I’m going to fill in our code with the common styles that apply to all buttons. These styles sit at the top of the elements layer so that they are applied to any and all buttons, regardless of the markup. Consider them default button styles, so to speak.

/* Components top-level layer */
@layer components {
  .button {
    /* Component elements layer */
    @layer elements {
      background-color: darkslateblue;
      border: 0;
      color: white;
      cursor: pointer;
      display: grid;
      font-size: 1rem;
      font-family: inherit;
      line-height: 1;
      margin: 0;
      padding-block: 0.65rem;
      padding-inline: 1rem;
      place-content: center;
      width: fit-content;
    }
  }
}

Defining button state styles

What should our default buttons do when they are hovered, clicked, or in focus? These are the different states that the button might take when the user interacts with them, and we need to style those accordingly.

I’m going to create a new cascade sub-layer directly under the elements sub-layer called, creatively, states:

/* Components top-level layer */
@layer components {
  .button {
    /* Component elements layer */
    @layer elements {
      /* Styles common to all buttons */
    }

    /* Component states layer */
    @layer states {
      /* Styles for specific button states */
    }
  }
}

Pause and reflect here. What states should we target? What do we want to change for each of these states?

Some states may share similar property changes, such as :hover and :focus having the same background color. Luckily, CSS gives us the tools we need to tackle such problems, using the :where() function to group property changes based on the state. Why :where() instead of :is()? :where() comes with zero specificity, meaning it’s a lot easier to override than :is(), which takes the specificity of the element with the highest specificity score in its arguments. Maintaining low specificity is a virtue when it comes to writing scalable, maintainable CSS.

/* Component states layer */
@layer states {
  &:where(:hover, :focus-visible) {
    /* button hover and focus state styles */
  }
}

But how do we update the button’s styles in a meaningful way? What I mean by that is how do we make sure that the button looks like it’s hovered or in focus? We could just slap a new background color on it, but ideally, the color should be related to the background-color set in the elements layer.

So, let’s refactor things a bit. Earlier, I set the .button element’s background-color to darkslateblue. I want to reuse that color, so it behooves us to make that into a CSS variable so we can update it once and have it apply everywhere. Relying on variables is yet another virtue of writing scalable and maintainable CSS.

I’ll create a new variable called --button-background-color that is initially set to darkslateblue and then set it on the default button styles:

/* Component elements layer */
@layer elements {
  --button-background-color: darkslateblue;

  background-color: var(--button-background-color);
  border: 0;
  color: white;
  cursor: pointer;
  display: grid;
  font-size: 1rem;
  font-family: inherit;
  line-height: 1;
  margin: 0;
  padding-block: 0.65rem;
  padding-inline: 1rem;
  place-content: center;
  width: fit-content;
}

Now that we have a color stored in a variable, we can set that same variable on the button’s hovered and focused states in our other layer, using the relatively new color-mix() function to convert darkslateblue to a lighter color when the button is hovered or in focus.

Back to our states layer! We’ll first mix the color in a new CSS variable called --state-background-color:

/* Component states layer */
@layer states {
  &:where(:hover, :focus-visible) {
    /* custom property only used in state */
    --state-background-color: color-mix(
      in srgb, 
      var(--button-background-color), 
      white 10%
    );
  }
}

We can then apply that color as the background color by updating the background-color property.

/* Component states layer */
@layer states {
  &:where(:hover, :focus-visible) {
    /* custom property only used in state */
    --state-background-color: color-mix(
      in srgb, 
      var(--button-background-color), 
      white 10%
    );

    /* applying the state background-color */
    background-color: var(--state-background-color);
  }
}

Defining modified button styles

Along with elements and states layers, you may be looking for some sort of variation in your components, such as modifiers. That’s because not all buttons are going to look like your default button. You might want one with a green background color for the user to confirm a decision. Or perhaps you want a red one to indicate danger when clicked. So, we can take our existing default button styles and modify them for those specific use cases

If we think about the order of the cascade — always flowing from top to bottom — we don’t want the modified styles to affect the styles in the states layer we just made. So, let’s add a new modifiers layer in between elements and states:

/* Components top-level layer */
@layer components {

  .button {
  /* Component elements layer */
  @layer elements {
    /* etc. */
  }

  /* Component modifiers layer */
  @layer modifiers {
    /* new layer! */
  }

  /* Component states layer */
  @layer states {
    /* etc. */
  }
}

Similar to how we handled states, we can now update the --button-background-color variable for each button modifier. We could modify the styles further, of course, but we’re keeping things fairly straightforward to demonstrate how this system works.

We’ll create a new class that modifies the background-color of the default button from darkslateblue to darkgreen. Again, we can rely on the :is() selector because we want the added specificity in this case. That way, we override the default button style with the modifier class. We’ll call this class .success (green is a “successful” color) and feed it to :is():

/* Component modifiers layer */
@layer modifiers {
  &:is(.success) {
    --button-background-color: darkgreen;
  }
}

If we add the .success class to one of our buttons, it becomes darkgreen instead darkslateblue which is exactly what we want. And since we already do some color-mix()-ing in the states layer, we’ll automatically inherit those hover and focus styles, meaning darkgreen is lightened in those states.

/* Components top-level layer */
@layer components {
  .button {
    /* Component elements layer */
    @layer elements {
      --button-background-color: darkslateblue;

      background-color: var(--button-background-color);
      /* etc. */

    /* Component modifiers layer */
    @layer modifiers {
      &:is(.success) {
        --button-background-color: darkgreen;
      }
    }

    /* Component states layer */
    @layer states {
      &:where(:hover, :focus) {
        --state-background-color: color-mix(
          in srgb,
          var(--button-background-color),
          white 10%
        );

        background-color: var(--state-background-color);
      }
    }
  }
}

Putting it all together

We can refactor any CSS property we need to modify into a CSS custom property, which gives us a lot of room for customization.

/* Components top-level layer */
@layer components {
  .button {
    /* Component elements layer */
    @layer elements {
      --button-background-color: darkslateblue;

      --button-border-width: 1px;
      --button-border-style: solid;
      --button-border-color: transparent;
      --button-border-radius: 0.65rem;

      --button-text-color: white;

      --button-padding-inline: 1rem;
      --button-padding-block: 0.65rem;

      background-color: var(--button-background-color);
      border: 
        var(--button-border-width) 
        var(--button-border-style) 
        var(--button-border-color);
      border-radius: var(--button-border-radius);
      color: var(--button-text-color);
      cursor: pointer;
      display: grid;
      font-size: 1rem;
      font-family: inherit;
      line-height: 1;
      margin: 0;
      padding-block: var(--button-padding-block);
      padding-inline: var(--button-padding-inline);
      place-content: center;
      width: fit-content;
    }

    /* Component modifiers layer */
    @layer modifiers {
      &:is(.success) {
        --button-background-color: darkgreen;
      }

      &:is(.ghost) {
        --button-background-color: transparent;
        --button-text-color: black;
        --button-border-color: darkslategray;
        --button-border-width: 3px;
      }
    }

    /* Component states layer */
    @layer states {
      &:where(:hover, :focus) {
        --state-background-color: color-mix(
          in srgb,
          var(--button-background-color),
          white 10%
        );

        background-color: var(--state-background-color);
      }
    }
  }
}

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P.S. Look closer at that demo and check out how I’m adjusting the button’s background using light-dark() — then go read Sara Joy’s “Come to the light-dark() Side” for a thorough rundown of how that works!

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What do you think? Is this something you would use to organize your styles? I can see how creating a system of cascade layers could be overkill for a small project with few components. But even a little toe-dipping into things like we just did illustrates how much power we have when it comes to managing — and even taming — the CSS Cascade. Buttons are deceptively complex but we saw how few styles it takes to handle everything from the default styles to writing the styles for their states and modified versions.

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From MacRumors:

Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file’s parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited.

This works for any kind of file, including HTML, CSS, JavaScriprt, or what have you. You can get there with CMD+i or right-click and select “Get info.”

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Web design may seem like a dream job, but it’s packed with hidden stressors like endless client revisions, tight deadlines, and the constant pressure to stay relevant. This article dives into the biggest challenges advanced designers face and offers practical strategies to manage stress and keep your creativity alive.

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A little gem from Kevin Powell’s “HTML & CSS Tip of the Week” website, reminding us that using container queries opens up container query units for sizing things based on the size of the queried container.

cqi and cqb are similar to vw and vh, but instead of caring about the viewport, they care about their containers size.

cqi is your inline-size unit (usually width in horizontal writing modes), while cqbhandles block-size (usually height).

So, 1cqi is equivalent to 1% of the container’s inline size, and 1cqb is equal to 1% of the container’s block size. I’d be remiss not to mention the cqmin and cqmax units, which evaluate either the container’s inline or block size. So, we could say 50cqmax and that equals 50% of the container’s size, but it will look at both the container’s inline and block size, determine which is greater, and use that to calculate the final computed value.

That’s a nice dash of conditional logic. It can help maintain proportions if you think the writing mode might change on you, such as moving from horizontal to vertical.

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OpenAI has unveiled its first-ever rebrand, introducing a custom typeface, a refined logo, and a more cohesive visual identity to create a balance between high-tech precision and human warmth.

While it may seem to be admirable, it could turn out to be extremely difficult to rely solely on your own creativity when building a website from scratch. In truth, the ability to build a great website usually depends on the tools you use and in the underpinning those tools help you create. Creativity is still key, but in this case it is the creativity of the designers of those very tools.

To complicate matters, the bar is raised as far as what constitutes a great or “stunning” website in 2025. The definition of “stunning” is no longer solely about its aesthetics. It’s mostly about a website’s efficiency, responsiveness, and adaptability.

From Trafft White Label to WoodMart, the themes and plugins discussed in this article offer the efficiency, responsiveness, and adaptability that is needed to build a competitive and future-ready website.

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Trafft White Label users can add value to their service offerings and generate revenue by providing a robust appointment management system while maintaining their own branding. They also benefit from using Trafft by not having to develop the software from scratch and putting in the time and expense involved in doing so.

The end users profit from having an in-house booking solution that  –

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MapSVG offers much more that giving its users the ability to access a map. It is, given the selection of customizable templates that work in concert with its database, what users can do with a map. Access to these  templates allows users to create information windows and maps of any complexity they need. That is what makes  MapSVG unique among and a step or two ahead  of other mapping plugins.

You have at your fingertips:

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The essential: With Uncode you can make a site that shines.

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Uncode is primarily for web designers and creative enthusiasts who are drawn to it because of its uniqueness in allowing them to tailor every section of a design to fit their special needs.

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Features that contribute to Uncode’s attractiveness include:

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To call wpDataTables feature rich is an understatement. It has 60+ powerful data management and visualization features to start with. It also has addons that extend its functionality even further. wpDataTables is the ideal solution  for anyone who needs to present data in tables or charts.

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LayerSlider’s versatility makes it easy for users to design animated web content that leaves a lasting positive impression on visitors.

It is particularly noteworthy of the way in which LayerSlider has used the scroll effect to a web designer’s advantage. You’ll see this special effect put to use in newer templates like the Fashion Trends template that also makes clever use of the hover effect.

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The essential: Blocksy gives you all the flexibility you need to create professional-looking websites.

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Blocksy’s total integration with WooCommerce means that you can use this responsive and SEO-ready theme to create any website you have in mind irrespective of its use or niche. In the event you could use a little help in getting a project underway or would simply like to get it off to a fast start, a starter site like Pottery should give you more than a few ideas on how to proceed.

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The essential: WhatFontIs accurately identifies fonts in seconds using AI.

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WhatFontIs is fast and accurate, easy to use, and you can use it right from the browser or browser extension. WhatFontIs’ audience ranges from first time font searchers to seasoned professionals looking to identify prepared font examples or fonts from any image.

WhatFontIs is not designed to do anything and everything. It does one thing and does it exceptionally well. It  will compare the font in question against the million or so different fonts in its database and come up with a match in 10 seconds or less 90+% of the time.

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The essential: Mobirise enables users to create responsive and visually stunning websites using prompts instead than relying on coding.

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Mobirise AI is designed to generate tailored content, stunning images, and customized layouts based on your specific prompts. When using this free AI-powered website builder you will experience a seamless website creation process that, by combining automation with your personal touch, makes acquiring an online presence easy and effective.

Mobirise AI website builder works as follows:

• You initiate the process by submitting your design ideas in terms of simple textual descriptions.
• Prompt Mobirise AI and it will create an initial cohesive website structure.
• You continue to feed Mobirise AI with more detailed textual descriptions followed by prompting until you have created an initial design to your liking.
• It then becomes a matter of refining and adjusting various aspects of your initial design using the AI website builder with its drag and drop functionality to position pre-made blocks to fit your desired layout.
• You can then customize block-by-block by replacing placeholder text and images with your own unique content.
• Once you are satisfied, you are ready to publish your website.

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos

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11. XStore – Online Store Building WooCommerce Theme

XStore is an all-in-one WooCommerce and WordPress website building solution with no plugins required.

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For starters, XStore is customizable, super-fast, and user-friendly. This WooCommerce and WordPress website building solution can boast of a host of other standout features as well, like the fact that it is fully integrated with Elementor Booster Sales. Many of its users will point to its Full Site Builder as its top feature in that it has enabled them to fully customize key page areas like headers, footers and checkout, cart, and product pages.

XStore also features:

• AMP for WooCommerce that dramatically improves mobile loading times.
• 130+ pre-built websites including this customizable and responsive Furniture website example.
• A Grid layout that ensures precise webpage alignment within Elementor. Elementor PRO is not needed when working with the XStore theme.
• A built-in mega menu that provides a user-friendly option to highlight deeper content on your site.
• A Product Variation Gallery complete with stunning animations and hover effects.
• A Child Theme with files.

XStore also fully supports RTL and features full AJAX shop and pagination.

Customer avg. grade: 4.85 / 5

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos

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12. Litho – A Modern, Highly Customizable, Multi-purpose Elementor WordPress Theme

The essential: Litho can be used by agencies, companies, and freelances to create any type of website, portfolio, or blog.

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Litho is a multi-purpose theme that can be used to design any type of website for any type of client. Litho’s host of impressive website building tools and features include:

• Full compatibility with Elementor.
• The Litho section builder that can be used to customize most page items using Elementor-like header, footer, mini header, archive page / post template, page title and promo popup. Note that in most themes users can only change a page’s body content.
• 200+ creative elements, a library of 300+ templates, and 37+ home pages that include Litho’s Home SEO Agency one-page website template that features an layout with many potential uses.
• A free of cost premium Slider Revolution plugin.

The Litho theme is WooCommerce ready and WPML compatible.

Customer avg. grade: 4.94 / 5

Client review: “Perfect! The theme is so full of options, I love it. And I’m so happy with the support, they are always ready to help. 5 stars both to the templates and the support team!”

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos

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13. Essential Grid – Innovative WordPress Gallery Grid Plugin

The essential: Essential Grid will speed up your workflow when you are creating a grid system that meets your requirements.

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Essential Grid users will never tire of telling you how their choice among 50+ fully customizable grid skins has helped them organize and speed up their workflow. These 50+ skins are known for their layouts including the one you’ll find in the Clark Gillies Blog Grid for WordPress with its minimal and functional design. The optional lightbox will also make it a solid pick for a portfolio showcase.

Essential Grid also gives you –

• A choice or mix of even, masonry, and cobble layouts.
• The capability to build your own skins with the visual editor.
• One-time only content and sourcing uploading from Social Media sites. The need to go back and forth between your website and the Social Media site to upload information has been eliminated.
• Clean code that promotes fast page loading.
• SEO with deep linking and pagination to achieve higher site ranking in the search engines.

Customer avg. grade: 4.8/5 on Trustpilot

Client review: “Immediate help – solved it quickly.”

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos

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14. WoodMart – Popular and Fully Customizable WordPress WooCommerce Theme

The essential: WoodMart’s pre-built websites and customization options makes it easy to build the perfect website.

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Its wide range of functions and customization options that make it easier for its users to build their websites has made WoodMart  one of the most popular themes around.

With WoodMart, a single click is all it takes to get a project underway when you choose and import a responsive demo like the attractive WoodMart Energy example with its impressive imagery and informative text. Since these demos are almost unbelievably easy to customize, you can have a site up and ready to launch in no time, irrespective of the type of product you will be selling.

Thanks to Woodmart’s full customizability of its demos you can design your website any way you want. Choose the fonts and colors that appeal to you and will appeal to your visitors and change the design of product descriptions to fit your needs.

There’s even more to like.

• WoodMart’s offerings include a custom layouts builder and product- and customer-centric features that include shop, product cart, and checkout pages.
• Size is never an issue as far as a store’s website design is concerned.
• New demos and pre-built websites are released on a monthly basis.
• A White Label option is included for developers and social integrations are included for Marketers.

Customer avg. grade:4.95/ 5

Immediate help via: Support manual, YouTube videos, Support forum

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Website designers and builders certainly appreciate the large number of free web design resources that are ready for the taking it. What they don’t appreciate quite so much is the challenge involved in finding one or more that meet their unique requirements in such a large number of potential candidates. Worse yet, the theme or plugin selected must also enable them to design and build websites that will not only be able to engage visitors but be future ready as well.

Did you come across a theme or plugin that could elevate your 2025 projects to the level you would like? If you did not find what you need, you have hopefully gained a better understanding of what to look for as you continue your search.