[marssaxman]

My experience was completely the opposite. Learning HTML was effortless, and I had a great deal of fun writing pages by hand, easily creating whatever I could imagine through a straightforward hierarchy of nested tags. When CSS came along, it added a slippery, inconsistent layer of confusion where spooky action at a distance was the order of the day; nothing ever worked completely right, no matter how much time I spent grinding on it. I never could get comfortable with CSS and eventually gave up web development rather than continue fighting with it.

[PointThink]

Yeah CSS is a complete nightmare. Nothing works and you never know why. The only thing you can do is to randomly change attruibutes randomly until something happens. I remember working on a simple website and i had to do a gradient banner. The gradient was relatively simple but the true challenge was making it stretch edge to edge. No matter what i did there was always a little bit of padding or the layout was completely off. I don't even remember how i solved it.