CSS Utility

Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. A small single-purpose CSS class that applies one narrowly scoped style such as margin, color, display, or alignment. Utility-heavy approaches can speed up composition by letting developers build layouts from reusable style primitives.

    In plain English: A small CSS class that does one specific styling job.

    Example: "Rather than creating a custom class for each spacing tweak, they used a CSS utility for vertical gap and another for text color."

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