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To avoid CSS inheritance & specificity, the "Cascading" part of CSS is the actual root of all evil. If you think about it, all the modern approaches to CSS (BE
by achairapart 4y ago
To avoid CSS inheritance & specificity, the "Cascading" part of CSS is the actual root of all evil. If you think about it, all the modern approaches to CSS (BEM, Atomic CSS, OOCSS) try to avoid it all cost.
- alwillis 4y agoTo avoid CSS inheritance & specificity, the "Cascading" part of CSS is the actual root of all evil. The Cascade is CSS’a superpower. If only someone would come up with a way to write CSS to make the cascade work for you, not against you. Oh wait; that would be Inverted Triangle CSS. [1]: https://www.xfive.co/blog/itcss-scalable-maintainable-css-architecture/ https://www.xfive.co/blog/itcss-scalable-maintainable-css-ar...
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoI'd like to believe that, but the industry has proven across the board that inheritance sucks. Cascading to me seems essentially inheritance, so I'm disillusioned, it's not a superpower, it's a liability