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Feelings about CSS...

Eleftheria Batsou on April 11, 2021

CSS can be tricky! It makes you feel powerful and weak at the same time. After many hours -and some magic numbers- you'll have what you initially -...
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Nicholas Stimpson

It is. But it's vastly more powerful. Styling in HTML was never going to be extensible. And that's the mind set you need to take in. I too learnt HTML before CSS was implemented in browsers and initially felt resentful that I had to learn this whole new, far more complex language to achieve what was, to begin with, pretty much the same stuff. But I had to dive in anyway, and the more you use it, the more you come to understand and respect it. It is awesome, and the things one can achieve with it go far beyond what could have been done if styling was limited to HTML attributes.

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Eleftheria Batsou

Thank you for the answer and for letting us know about your story.

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lepinekong

When I hear developers say javascript is hard to master I say Css is harder most people saying css is easy is because they have never taken to learn it and do Css by coΓ―ncidence ;)

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Eleftheria Batsou

I see what you mean... We all learn differently, maybe for some people css is hard maybe for other js

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lepinekong

I have seen a lot of backend devs who think frontend is still like in the 90s ;)

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Eleftheria Batsou

haha, indeed :)

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Natalia Asteria

CSS is when programming becomes an art and a programmer becomes an artist.

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Eleftheria Batsou

well said!!

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Precious Chicken

That family guy gif really does perfectly encapsulate this, made me laugh.

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Eleftheria Batsou

it's one of my favorite gifs!

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Jon Kantner

The more CSS advances, the less dependent on JavaScript we’ll become.

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Eleftheria Batsou

Well said Jon :)