Hi, This is probably very basic question but I'm not sure I saw something about that.

How is best way to move from website design into BEM structure?

I mean, how to fast identify all blocks, find what names should be and build structure efficiently?

Thanks.

Hello!

I'm newbie in BEM and trying to use it in my workflow but I'm not sure how solve that problem.

I would like to create simple layout and position all elements i.e. something like this:

<div class="main-window">
    <div class="gallery">
        <!-- Here is gallery content -->
    </div>
    <div class="story">
        <!-- Here is story content -->
    </div>
</div>

Should I style .gallery and .story with position and dimension properties or maybe should I nest them in .main-window elements. Something like that:

<div class="main-window">
    <div class="main-window__gallery-wrapper>
        <div class="gallery">
            <!-- Here is gallery content -->
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="main-window__story-wrapper>
        <div class="gallery">
            <!-- Here is story content -->
        </div>
    </div></div>

Now I can separate .gallery and .story styling from their position because I can define size and position with .main-window elements

.main-window__gallery-wrapper {
    width: 500px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}
.gallery {
    /* formatting without size and position */
}
.main-window__story-wrapper {
    width: 500px;
    margin: 30px auto;
}
.story {
    /* formatting without size and position */
}

Sorry for (probably) such a simple question but I didn't find answer for that.

Thanks.

Hi there,

I have a navigation list, each items will need unique styling such as an icon/image applied to it. I've seen this handled a couple of different ways so I thought I'd put it to the forum and gets peoples thoughts on it. The standard mark-up would be something like this:

<nav class="site-nav">
    <ul class="site-nav__list">
        <li class="site-nav__item"><a href="#" class="site-nav__link">Schools</a></li>
        <li class="site-nav__item"><a href="#" class="site-nav__link">Users</a></li>
    </ul>
</nav>

Originally I thought I'd use a modifier and add classes like site-nav__item--users for example. But quite a few sites I've looked at use an element instead, so site-nav__users. So in full...

<nav class="site-nav">
    <ul class="site-nav__list">
        <li class="site-nav__item site-nav__schools"><a href="#" class="site-nav__link">Schools</a></li>
        <li class="site-nav__item site-nav__users"><a href="#" class="site-nav__link">Users</a></li>
    </ul>
</nav>

What's the thinking behind this and is there a right/wrong answer? Thanks in advance!

Hi all again! :)

I don't know if this is strcit a BEM question. Can I reuse just some parts of blocks?. Is a copy+paste thing and I think it's not a good idea.. :S

With this block

<div class="newsletter">
    <div class="newsletter__title">Newsletter</div>
    <div class="newsletter__subtitle">This is the newsletter subtitle</div>
</div>

Can I use just this in other parts of the interface:

<div class="newsletter">
    <div class="newsletter__title">Newsletter</div>
</div>

Or I need to create for example a modifier like newsletter--no-subtitle and hide it

<div class="newsletter newsletter--no-subtitle">
    <div class="newsletter__title">Newsletter</div>
    <div class="newsletter__subtitle">This is the newsletter subtitle</div>
</div>

Thanks you!!