A Primer on RSS Feeds

Would you like to add a nifty RSS feed element that arbitrarily draws content from interesting websites such as Wikipedia and Wikivoyage to your web design project? This could be a fun way to always keep a homepage interesting, which would in turn result in visitors returning to your site. What we are talking about is essentially a mini aggregator, and you can code it as little as five lines of CSS if you properly use the CSS rule known as a selector.

If you want to see a good example of the aforementioned RSS feed element, head on over to Vincent Tunru's website and look for his "Feed Me Up" project, which is an excellent example of what you can do with CSS selectors. There is a great diversity of CSS selectors for you to learn, and Vincent's neat RSS feed project is a good way to get started.

The example above was built by using selectors to create a simple RSS feed element. You can try out the example by creating a copy of the code directly from Vincent's project . The RSS feed element is based on a div element and positioned above a paragraph of text (this is important, as a paragraph is the base element for each line of content). You will see that you have a number of classes. The key classes are .title, .description, and .links.

In a traditional RSS feed, the title is what displays in the title box in the RSS feed, and the description is what displays in the description box. Since you are building this RSS feed in CSS, the .title and .description are simply classes that identify the titles and descriptions in the RSS feed. The .links class contains a series of links to a series of Wikipedia articles. You can easily change the HTML to fit your own RSS feed. CSS for RSS feed element In this case, the CSS was mostly used to create the simple RSS feed, but you can adjust it to suit your own needs and the scope of your front-end web design project. For more information click here https://feed-me-up-scotty.vincenttunru.com/.