The following is a collaborative post by guest Joe Richardson, Robin Rendle, and a bunch of the CSS-Tricks staff. Joe wanted to do a post about BEM, which we

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The Block, Element, Modifier methodology (commonly referred to as BEM) is a popular naming convention for classes in HTML and CSS. It gives developers a standard on which to write better, maintainable code. BEM gives everyone on a project a declarative syntax that they can share so that they're on the same page.

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