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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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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 113 points 1 month ago

The author should be killed for indentation alone.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know, right? Needs more tab.

[-] afox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

We are witnessing a hate crime.

[-] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 99 points 1 month ago

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

Result:

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[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 74 points 1 month ago
color: lime !important;
z-index: 1000000;

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 month ago

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

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

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

[-] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago

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

[-] CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

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

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Not allowed to credit the site in your text editor?

Is the owner in the room with you now?

[-] GregorTacTac@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 month ago

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

[-] GregorTacTac@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

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

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

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

[-] GregorTacTac@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago
[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] GregorTacTac@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago
[-] GregorTacTac@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Took ya a bit Keanu, but you got there.

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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

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

[-] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Exactly this. Bootstrap killed the css star.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 24 points 1 month ago

People learning CSS through shitty frameworks:

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

At first I only noticed the indent. Wtf

[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago

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...

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Mesa@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago

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

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Oh, that makes sense.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

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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[-] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"Figured it was a bad idea" actually means that some people were against it because they believed semantic class names were the solution, I was one of them. This was purely ideological, it wasn't based on practical experience because everyone knew maintaining CSS was a bitch. Heck, starting a new project with the semantic CSS approach was a bitch because if you didn't spend 2 months planning ahead you'd end up with soup that was turning sour before it ever left the stove.

Bootstrap and the likes were born out of the issues the semantic approach had, and their success and numbers are a testimony to how real the issue was, and I say this as someone who never used and despised bootstrap. Maintaining semantic CSS was hard, starting was hard, the only thing that approach had going for it was this idea that you were using CSS the way it was meant to be used, it had nothing to do with the practicality. Sure, your html becomes prettier to look at, but what good is that when your clean html is just hiding the monstrosity of your CSS file? Your clean html was supposed to be beneficial to the developer experience, but it never succeeded in doing that.

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month 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.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Peter_Arbeitsloser@feddit.org 34 points 1 month ago

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

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

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

[-] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month 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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[-] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Aux@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Frameworks like bootstrap are a cancer.

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[-] RedStrider@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
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[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I guess the class matches the color of the background (applied on a parent element), and the text is the opposite color?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

My guess would be that they initially named the classes like the colors and then decided to swap those two colors.

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[-] communism@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Lime text with a white background or vice versa sounds horrifying and illegible

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 3 points 1 month ago

I hate all webdev beyond using raw HTML, CSS and Javascript to make your own crappy website

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