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I see what you're saying and I agree it would be great to be simpler. My perspective is that the complexity is actually in the flexibility in CSS and the number

• riffraff 13y ago
  honest question, but what would the problem be with having "margin: auto" work vertically as it does horizontally? EDIT: I mean, what freedom would have been lost when it was designed to work like this, not talking of changing it now.
  • jessedhillon 13y ago
    What would you do with this case then? .outer {height: 1200px; width: 800px;} .inner {margin: auto;} <div class="outer"> <p class="inner">This is centered vertically</p> <p>But where should this go?</p> </div> And what if both p elements had the `inner` class?
• coldtea 13y ago
  >My perspective is that the complexity is actually in the flexibility in CSS and the number of options provided to you Not really, most of the complexity is of the ill-thought design they started with, and the LACK of options for certain things. Initially the envisioned CSS as a styling technology, so layout was an afterthought. Even the messy floats hacks (those one that replaced tables) wasn't something that was though of specifically as a complete layout solution. We had to wait 10+ years, to have actual layout solutions catering to the needs of web designers: Flexbox, Regions, Multi-Column layout and Grid Layout -- and of course those are still not implemented totally by browser vendors, give a few years wait for that too.
  • proexploit 13y ago
    That's fair. Perhaps I'm too comfortable with the concepts I've been forced to learn thus far.