The closing curly brace

Now my friends we have reached the end of this little book.

While I'd hope that some of you might be able to take ECSS off the peg and start implementing it wholesale, I'll be just as happy if it merely provokes your own journey of discovery.

At the outset I was trying to find an approach to scaling CSS that dealt with the following problems:

• To allow the easy maintenance of a large CSS codebase over time
• To allow portions of CSS code to be removed from the codebase without effecting the remaining styles
• It should be possible to rapidly iterate on any new designs
• Changing the properties and values applied to one visual element should not unintentionally effect others
• Any solution should require minimal tooling and workflow changes to implement
• Where possible, W3C standards such as ARIA should be used to communicate state change within the user interface

ECSS answers all of those problems:

• Compartmentalizing CSS into modules allows easy removal of deprecated...