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Just use a button

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285 points moebrowne | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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SmartHypercube ◴[31 Oct 25 18:49 UTC] No.45775351[source]▶
I got bitten by this: user agent stylesheet contains "button {align-items: flex-start}" (at least in Chrome). The default behavior is "stretch". Spent an hour debugging why my flexboxs' sizes are wrong. I still want to use correct HTML elements as much as possible, but I do think using <div>s everywhere makes my small side projects so much easier, since I don't have to remember all the non-default behaviors.
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1. cferdinandi ◴[31 Oct 25 19:45 UTC] No.45775930[source]▶
I probably should have included "if you're building for the frontend you should probably know CSS". Good follow-up piece. Thanks for mentioning it!