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CSS finally gets support for if() function (www.techzine.eu)
submitted 1 day ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/webdev@programming.dev
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After years of developer frustration and questions on online forums, it’s finally happening: CSS is getting an if() function to apply styling when a condition is met. For the first time, developers can make logical decisions directly in stylesheets, without separate code blocks. This opens up whole new possibilities for web designers.

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[–] phneutral@feddit.org 4 points 9 hours ago

This breaks with the foundations of CSS. You already can build if-like statements especially since the implementation of custom properties. It doesn’t have to be that explicit — quite the contrary: putting if() into every property will make them bloated and harder to understand.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 3 points 8 hours ago

Since flexbox I haven’t seen any useful updates to css.

This just gatekeeps alternative browsers from taking part.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

What an abomination

I'm just curious what kind of bad code is going to be around when this gets widespread.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Slow-walk to plain scripting.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It should be like CSS5 by now with all the stuff they’ve added

[–] phneutral@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

After CSS3 they switched to rolling releases and dropped any numbers, AFAIK.

[–] mormund@feddit.org 15 points 22 hours ago

Only in Chromium for now. Also I don't see how it adds any new capabilities? I guess it is a little nicer syntax wise in some cases, but I might still prefer SCSS nested declarations instead.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 7 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

When was the last time a feature this huge was added to CSS?

[–] 0xDREADBEEF@programming.dev 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

CSS Nesting

.foo {
    .nested {
        property: value;
    }
}
[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 18 hours ago

@container and @scope were pretty big in my opinion.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

JSSS had this 30 years ago!

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 5 points 23 hours ago

O.M.G. Finally!!!!

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

what

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

When <if cond="true"></if> and <set var="x" val="lol">?

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That is HTML not CSS

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, that's the point... CSS has conditionals now, so when will we get HTML conditionals and variables?

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 10 points 18 hours ago

Can’t wait to have business logic in my CSS!