Comment by Sateeshm 12 days ago Tailwind is not what you're describing. 5 comments Sateeshm Reply digitalPhonix 12 days ago Isn’t that what utility classes are? Shorthand for inline styles?Not saying it’s good/bad, but it feels like that’s the use case francislavoie 11 days ago It's much more than that because it can make use of CSS pseudo selectors like hover, which is not possible with inline styles. rafark 11 days ago Under that definition any css class is a shorthand for inline styles digitalPhonix 10 days ago There's a big difference between utility classes which are shorthand for inline styles (random example from Tailwind's site where every single class is a one-to-one mapping with a single style override.): class="ml-3 hidden rounded-lg bg-gray-100 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs/6 font-semibold whitespace-nowrap text-gray-700 lg:block dark:bg-gray-400/15 dark:text-gray-300" and semantic names which use the CSS cascade: class="main-content subheading" Calling that a shorthand for inline styles is just being obtuse. Sateeshm 11 days ago Media queries, pseudo selectors, extensible design system with sensible and practical defaults, and many more
digitalPhonix 12 days ago Isn’t that what utility classes are? Shorthand for inline styles?Not saying it’s good/bad, but it feels like that’s the use case francislavoie 11 days ago It's much more than that because it can make use of CSS pseudo selectors like hover, which is not possible with inline styles. rafark 11 days ago Under that definition any css class is a shorthand for inline styles digitalPhonix 10 days ago There's a big difference between utility classes which are shorthand for inline styles (random example from Tailwind's site where every single class is a one-to-one mapping with a single style override.): class="ml-3 hidden rounded-lg bg-gray-100 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs/6 font-semibold whitespace-nowrap text-gray-700 lg:block dark:bg-gray-400/15 dark:text-gray-300" and semantic names which use the CSS cascade: class="main-content subheading" Calling that a shorthand for inline styles is just being obtuse. Sateeshm 11 days ago Media queries, pseudo selectors, extensible design system with sensible and practical defaults, and many more
francislavoie 11 days ago It's much more than that because it can make use of CSS pseudo selectors like hover, which is not possible with inline styles.
rafark 11 days ago Under that definition any css class is a shorthand for inline styles digitalPhonix 10 days ago There's a big difference between utility classes which are shorthand for inline styles (random example from Tailwind's site where every single class is a one-to-one mapping with a single style override.): class="ml-3 hidden rounded-lg bg-gray-100 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs/6 font-semibold whitespace-nowrap text-gray-700 lg:block dark:bg-gray-400/15 dark:text-gray-300" and semantic names which use the CSS cascade: class="main-content subheading" Calling that a shorthand for inline styles is just being obtuse.
digitalPhonix 10 days ago There's a big difference between utility classes which are shorthand for inline styles (random example from Tailwind's site where every single class is a one-to-one mapping with a single style override.): class="ml-3 hidden rounded-lg bg-gray-100 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs/6 font-semibold whitespace-nowrap text-gray-700 lg:block dark:bg-gray-400/15 dark:text-gray-300" and semantic names which use the CSS cascade: class="main-content subheading" Calling that a shorthand for inline styles is just being obtuse.
Sateeshm 11 days ago Media queries, pseudo selectors, extensible design system with sensible and practical defaults, and many more
Isn’t that what utility classes are? Shorthand for inline styles?
Not saying it’s good/bad, but it feels like that’s the use case
It's much more than that because it can make use of CSS pseudo selectors like hover, which is not possible with inline styles.
Under that definition any css class is a shorthand for inline styles
There's a big difference between utility classes which are shorthand for inline styles (random example from Tailwind's site where every single class is a one-to-one mapping with a single style override.):
and semantic names which use the CSS cascade:
Calling that a shorthand for inline styles is just being obtuse.
Media queries, pseudo selectors, extensible design system with sensible and practical defaults, and many more