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Discussion on: Is the Tailwind approach a big step forward for CSS or just-yet-another-thing?

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Reinout

If Tailwind doesn't provide the utility class to do something, what's the recommended way to solve this? For example, adding a background image or add styles to a :before or :after pseudo element. Should you add a custom class?

That's where in my opinion these CSS frameworks fall short. They promise that styles are in 1 place (your HTML), but if you have to build a highly custom pixel-perfect responsive design you have to violate the principles they are based on.

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Jonathan Sundqvist

Personally, tailwind has opacity-25, opacity-50, opacity-75, but in this case I really wanted opacity-90. Usually when I'm confronted with cases like that I mostly just add that to my custom css.

The tailwind way of thinking is really useful.