Tim Chase @gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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An interesting article¹ by @keithamus on "CSS Classes Considered Harmful"

I went into the article skeptical, but found myself coming around to the POV that data-attributes offer significant advantages over a class="…" grab-bag.

However, it was unfortunate that most of the examples go down a non-semantic route, doing things like

data-align=left

or

data-border-collapse~="top"

which push the style decisions into the HTML rather than leaving the HTML to define the *structure*, and letting the CSS to decide the *appearance*. Especially since this data-attribute method is great for facilitating this separation.

tl;dr: use data-attributes rather than classes, could better examples

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¹ keithcirkel.co.uk/css-classes-

CSS Classes considered harmful

If you've used CSS, you know what a class name is. They're a very poor proxy for the web today. Let's stop using them.

www.keithcirkel.co.uk · Keith Cirkel

Link author: keithamus@keithamus@indieweb.social

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