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[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 28 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And 50% of the styles are marked as !important

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Hey it's not my fault, this project was started in 2018 and they choose to use bootstrap.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh god I didn’t expect that to give me the level of PTSD flashback that it did.

Fuck bootstrap with a rusty pitchfork.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s not as bad as it used to be. Some things require you to use a few more selectors that you’d normally write, but that’s really only tables.

Most stuff is exposed via CSS variables nowadays.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Good to know.

I have not touched it in several years so I just remember the 2013-2019 onslaught of bootstrap.