alt Hacker News> Tailwind instead pushes the dev into a CSS-first approach. You think about the Tailwind classes you want, and then throw yet-another-div into the DOM just to have an element to hang your classes on.
To be fair plopping a `div` everywhere started way before Tailwind. I blame React and the mess that is CSS in JS for this.
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ncphillips • today at 3:49 PM
It did for sure. And Tailwind absolutely doesn’t need to be done this way. I think this is a correlation-not-causation issue
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Divitis was a thing long before React came along. It was a common solution to styling problems even in the jQuery/Dojo days. Getting stuff to look similar across IE6 and FF before CSS3 relied heavily on divs.