Sarah Dayan • 6/23/2017

You Need to Stop Targeting Tags in CSS

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This article argues against using HTML tag names as CSS selectors, explaining how it leads to fragile, tightly-coupled code that is hard to scale and maintain. It contrasts this approach with using classes, as recommended by methodologies like BEM, to create more robust and flexible stylesheets that are independent of the DOM structure.

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