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Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

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197 points OuterVale | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 04:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.258s | 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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Angostura ◴[11 Dec 25 11:58 UTC] No.46230316[source]▶
> Related: I also love when I can't paste tabular data into Excel/etc. anymore

Except that’s exactly where tables should be used. So if you can’t, someone has really misunderstood CSS.

Use it for tables, not for layout.

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wanderingstan ◴[11 Dec 25 14:07 UTC] No.46231522[source]▶
I’ve gotten in several arguments over the years where webdevs insisted on showing tabular data using flexbox or hardcoded div widths or worse. They insisted that html tables were never ever to be used and couldn’t be persuaded.
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1. MrJohz ◴[11 Dec 25 14:21 UTC] No.46231713[source]▶
In fairness, the default `display: table` setup is often a pain to work with, so I can understand why people would opt for flexbox instead. One better option, though, might be to use `table` elements under the hood, styled with `display: grid` (and judicious use of subgrid for the intermediate elements) to get more precise control over the layout, while still using the right semantic elements underneath.