If you spend a lot of time on a single framework, you will transcend and become a sort of frontend diety, growing multiple extra limbs allowing you to type in CSS classes faster than any mere mortal
What’s sad is that web development is only a nightmare so websites can be worse.
I genuinely believe it’s part of the concerted effort by the cabal to make us accept a ‘new normal.’
They don’t want an environment where anyone feels like they can make a website. They want us to believe we need to spend years studying before we can do anything, and even then we can only do what our bosses tell us to.
Generally I find many these frameworks will make some complicated things simple, but the cost is some things that were once simple are now complicated. They can be great if you just need the things they simplify - or in other words can stick to what they were intended for, but my favorite way of keeping things simple is to avoid using complicated and heavy frameworks.
Yeah that works if you wanna center a box of content it relative to the parent container, either horizontally or vertically. For other situations we’ve got different tools
Fuck it, align=‘center’. That’ll center it horizontally relative to some context and if that’s not good enough then you should have been more precise in your request.
Okay but how do u center a div in 2025
If using plain CSS, usually it’s enough to set
widthappropriately, andmargin-leftandmargin-righttoauto.If using a Modern Frontend/CSS Framework, then may God have mercy on your poor soul.
(Seriously I just started a new project with TailwindCSS and I’m so confused. But not entirely desperate yet.)
So what is the point of these frameworks if they make it harder?
If you spend a lot of time on a single framework, you will transcend and become a sort of frontend diety, growing multiple extra limbs allowing you to type in CSS classes faster than any mere mortal
Until everyone moves over to the next thing and you start from 0 again. Web dev is a nightmare.
What’s sad is that web development is only a nightmare so websites can be worse.
I genuinely believe it’s part of the concerted effort by the cabal to make us accept a ‘new normal.’
They don’t want an environment where anyone feels like they can make a website. They want us to believe we need to spend years studying before we can do anything, and even then we can only do what our bosses tell us to.
This is a bit of a stretch I think…
Web development is complicated because it’s indredibly poorly “designed” from the beginning, and doing a full redo is impossible.
It is 100x easier today than it was in 2006 when I started.
It’s easier today to make a website that would be ‘acceptable’ in 2006.
Generally I find many these frameworks will make some complicated things simple, but the cost is some things that were once simple are now complicated. They can be great if you just need the things they simplify - or in other words can stick to what they were intended for, but my favorite way of keeping things simple is to avoid using complicated and heavy frameworks.
w-... mx-auto, replace the 3 dots with your desired width value, and that’s it with tailwindI’m doing a small hobby project (a ladder/ranking system for playing beer sports with my community), and I tried out Tailwind.
I gave up and loaded Bootstrap instead, but I will probably end up just writing all the CSS myself.
Seems so silly to have 15 CSS classes on a single DOM element…
Who’s saying you’re using the frameworks correctly?
Depends if you’re centering the div or the things in the div. Which has probably been the main issue since CSS was invented.
While centering div, you add one to 2023.
If you define what you mean by centering I’ll give you a straight answer.
Vertically? Horizontally? Center the text or the entire box? Compared to the viewport, the parent container or the entire page?
“Centering” isn’t as straight forward as you’d think, and what you actually want usually depends on the situation.
Nah, just flex them boxes
Yeah that works if you wanna center a box of content it relative to the parent container, either horizontally or vertically. For other situations we’ve got different tools
Fuck it, align=‘center’. That’ll center it horizontally relative to some context and if that’s not good enough then you should have been more precise in your request.
use
display: flexflex-direction: columnalign-items: centeron the parent container
You count half the pixels and put them in a margin-left
Ask the browser nicely while using please and thanks.
Same way you did it in 2024 but it’s easier because the springgirdles have been replaced with rotated manglebrackets.
What threw me was having to set a width.