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Why do people keep calling things "pure CSS" when they use JavaScript and HTML?

• endianswap 15y ago
  It seems like a more accurate term for these demonstrations would be "imageless" rather than "pure CSS".
• baddox 15y ago
  I think HTML obviously is allowed to call something "pure CSS," since an HTML document is required to even load CSS, and CSS rules can only apply to DOM elements. JavaScript, however, shouldn't be allowed.
  • RKearney 15y ago
    You could do it with XML and XSLT.
    • lojack 15y ago
      XSLT is typically used to translate XML into HTML. Sure, you could use CSS to style XML, but I believe the point isn't to argue the semantics of the markup, only to say that some sort of markup is required in order to use CSS.
    • baddox 15y ago
      Okay. Let's just say "markup language."