CSS is one of the languages that everyone shits on because they never bothered to learn it properly. When you learned your programming language of choice you pr

CSS is one of the languages that everyone shits on because they never bothered to learn it properly. When you learned your programming language of choice you probably read a formal tutorial, or followed a full fledged course. Well once you spend some time learning CSS, it becomes incredibly easy to do almost everything you want. If you know your basic CSS selectors `.stack > * + *` is very easy to understand. I didn't know `* - *` was sometimes referred to as "lobotomized owl selector" but it doesn't matter, `>`, `*` and `+` are all basic selectors that everyone working with CSS should know from the top of their head. None of these are "clever". If you can't read `.stack > * + *`, you don't know CSS selectors. I'd even argue if you don't use mostly `>` instead of ` ` (space selector) your stylesheets are probably unmaintainable. CSS hacks were a shit show 10 years ago because of browser compatibility, but the thing presented here is not a hack, it's just a useful rule.