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I am not allowed to credit the site that has this disaster. Its owner said "Nobody should see that"

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The author should be killed for indentation alone.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I know, right? Needs more tab.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

We are witnessing a hate crime.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Client: "Can you switch these two colours, you have 1 minute to fix it or you're fired!"

Result:

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (1 children)
color: lime !important;
z-index: 1000000;

[–] xmunk 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I love the superstitious z-index just in case it does something to help.

[–] independantiste 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At least that's actually easy and quick to do and is the only way of doing it. Centering a div however has 81639393 ways and it seems the one that works is different every time

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Bro its so easy bro, just use flexboxgridcolumns its been a standard since 2010 just flex it bro you haven't learned to flex yet just check w3c schools and add a flex you can polyfill it but don't use that hacked one use the good flexpolyfill then { content-align-middle-child-elements: center-middle-true-neutral } so easy with flex bro

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know you meant this sarcastically, but yes, flex is a good option for centering something. Either that or setting the left and right margins of the element to auto, which is generally even easier.

Basically, if you're in a flex container use flex, if you're in a grid use grid, and if neither of those apply set the left and right margins to auto.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Also seriously, anybody having problems with flexbox should try this:

https://flexboxfroggy.com/

I'm not sure there's any version of it for grids, but IMO grids are inherently more intuitive, so it may not be needed. Flexbox is the one that is hard to learn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I don't know any CSS (despite reading memes about it like this) but I do know that the bottom of that page has a link to something called Grid Garden

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Well, flexbox and grid have different purposes in my opinion/experience. Personally I use grid for "top level" layouts like the layout of the whole site, while I tend to prefer flexbox for layouts inside the grid. Of course that's just a rule of thumb, there are absolutely cases where this isn't the best option.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Dude, stop flexing on him. You're gonna make him cry.

[–] independantiste 10 points 4 months ago

You've perfectly captured twitter tech bro energy it's kind of incredible actually

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not allowed to credit the site in your text editor?

Is the owner in the room with you now?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This screenshot is not mine, it was sent to me via Matrix

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You get used to it. I don't even see the code

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a built-in browser in your brain that renders it?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead. Hey uh, you want a drink?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's good for two things: De-greasing engines and killing brain cells.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's only now that I realise that I understood that reference so late

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Took ya a bit Keanu, but you got there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

…it was sent to me via Matrix

That’s how they do pull requests there

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, that's what you get for using classes like "white" and "lime".

[–] dajoho 9 points 4 months ago

Exactly this. Bootstrap killed the css star.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

People learning CSS through shitty frameworks:

[–] independantiste 22 points 4 months ago

At first I only noticed the indent. Wtf

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I'm appalled that classes representing visual styles are still a thing. I thought everyone already figured that it was a bad idea back in bootstrap days. But then I recently had an opportunity to work on project that uses Vuetify and saw quite long poems about flexboxes in class names...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Aren't classes in CSS supposed to represent visual styles? What else could they be for?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure they're referring to class names describing the visual style being applied, rather than what that class represents semantically.

E.g. .red-bold vs. .error-text

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Oh, that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Well, there's not exactly a ~~class~~ training you have to take before writing CSS, so everyone starting out with it gets to make all those same mistakes for themselves before they know how to use classes sensibly. I myself am some backend guy, who has to write CSS far too often.

It certainly also does not help that various CSS frameworks out there do exactly that...

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

"Some coders just want to watch the word ~~burn~~ get colored white and/or lime."

And if you delete one or the other, or condense the code into a single command, the whole site breaks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't cascading styles the whole point of Cascading Style Sheets?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You absolute fool. You must never utter its full name, lest you summon its wrath!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I don't get it, isn't this a pretty normal way of using media queries. Granted you're more likely to see the widths defined in px.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shhh... The poster doesn't understand CSS and we shouldn't embarrass them in a community with memes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

My imposter syndrome kicked in full swing. I was ready to learn a CSS best practice and feel uncomfortable about it for the rest off the day.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, userstyles are wild. You learn so many ways how to not use CSS. Everything is !important and rather than adjusting the HTML to change the structure, you get to do it all in CSS. 🫠

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[–] dajoho 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I am very, very surprised about the competence of the commenters here. I have had many discussions on reddit about the advantages of meaningful instead of presentational class-naming and you're normally met with great resistance, especially with users of frameworks like Bootstrap and Tailwind.

Here, everyone seems to either 'get it' or is willing to hear why classes like .lime are bad. Very cool.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People that advocate for presentation naming haven't endured a major company rebrand.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Frameworks like bootstrap are a cancer.

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