Efficient CSS with shorthand properties

I get a lot of questions about CSS from people who aren't crazy enough to have spent the thousands of hours working with CSS that I have. Sometimes I'm asked to take a look at something they're working on to see if I can figure out why it doesn't work as expected. When I look at their CSS I often find that it's both bloated and unorganised.

One of the reasons for using CSS to layout websites is to reduce the amount of HTML sent to site visitors. To avoid just moving the bloat from HTML to CSS, you should try to keep the size of your CSS files down as well, and I thought I'd explain my favourite CSS efficiency trick: shorthand properties. Most people know about and use some shorthand, but many don't make full use of these space saving properties.

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