[bravura]

As someone who has struggled with getting CSS to do normal layout stuff that had clear precise semantics but required weird CSS trickery, it's actually more scary than lucky that stuff like container queries have arrived 30 years after CSS was introduced.

I agree with GP that CSS should be scrapped.

[asddubs]

container queries have a very obvious chicken and egg problem if used a certain way: If this container is less than 30px wide, make its content 60px wide. Otherwise make it 20px wide. Now that container exists in a quantum state of being both 30 and 60px wide. I actually haven't looked into container queries to see how they ended up dealing with this yet.

Obviously this is a very contrived example but it can also express itself in subtler ways.

[mixmastamyk]

Comeau has a piece on that. Another property to constrain it is the solution.

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/container-queries-introducti...