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Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

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197 points OuterVale | 2 comments | 11 Dec 25 04:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.004s | source
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anonymars ◴[11 Dec 25 05:18 UTC] No.46227939[source]▶
I will never understand the bizarre scene of the web's smug collective declaration that tables were dead and not to be used juxtaposed against the years it took to regain the ability to reliably center things. Assuming one agrees that we even did regain it.

Related: I also love when I can't paste tabular data into Excel/etc. anymore

For the record, I don't hate the idea of stylesheets, but...sheesh

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Vinnl ◴[11 Dec 25 12:31 UTC] No.46230586[source]▶
> the ability to reliably center things. Assuming one agrees that we even did regain it.

Is there anyone who does not agree that we can reliably center things in CSS nowadays?

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1. pglevy ◴[11 Dec 25 13:21 UTC] No.46231032[source]▶
At least one person. https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/
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2. Vinnl ◴[11 Dec 25 13:42 UTC] No.46231250[source]▶
Haha fair, we do still suck at properly centering text, I'll give you that.