I am not allowed to credit the site that has this disaster. Its owner said "Nobody should see that"
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Bootstrap (as of v5) being one of them.
div class="d-flex gap-2 my-3 align-items-center flex-nowrap justify-content-betweenI was annoyed at this at first, but I’ve since noticed that I write hardly any CSS any more, because most rules really are “just add some space, vertically align, be red”.
Could argue here that you're still writing CSS, just cross compiling to it from Bootstrap shortcuts.
Yeah, the reason why people deride it, is because it's practically equivalent to:
I had to look up what these do, so they might not be precisely correct translations, but hopefully, you get the idea. It's mostly like using inline styles, and like not using classes.
In some scenarios, these frameworks might simplify certain things, like how
myapplies two CSS rules. And they reduce the visual clutter of inline styling somewhat.But overall, it feels like people are dissatisfied with semantic classes, but don't want to lead the discussion for using inline styles, so they grab these CSS frameworks to pretend that they're not using inline styles.
It is fundamentally a difficult discussion to lead, because inline styles feel great, while you're writing them. They're less great for maintenance.
But semantic classes definitely have long-term problems, too.