[ghurtado]

> can tailwind be used poorly? absolutely. but that's true of any tool

Can tailwind be a useful CSS framework? Absolutely, but that can be said of any of them.

Which is precisely why it makes sense to point out it's unique flaws, so that people can make an informed decision as to what works best for them.

If you have some unique feature to tailwind that you think makes it better than the rest, you should share that.

Everything you have listed is also accomplished by all the other CSS frameworks, so it almost sounds like tailwind is simply the main one you have experience with.

[csallen]

> 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.

But this isn't a unique flaw for Tailwind. I've been coding with CSS since the late '90s and seen plenty of people throw yet-another-div onto the DOM just to have an element to hang their classes on. Done so myself plenty of times, too.

People have been complaining about div soup for years and years before Tailwind ever came along.

Plus I'm coding with Tailwind now, and almost never think about my classes before my HTML. Nothing about Tailwind in particular encourages you to do so. So I'm quite confused how this is a unique Tailwind flaw.

[danaw]

what unique flaws does tailwind have that the OP pointed out? my entire reply was pointing out that fact and that tailwind (or any tool) doesn't force you to build "div soup apps", which is factually correct.

> If you have some unique feature to tailwind that you think makes it better than the rest, you should share that.

i did mention some but you'll then claim it's not unique because some other tool has it so...

> Everything you have listed is also accomplished by all the other CSS frameworks

not true. most frameworks for example do not have nearly the universal familiarity tailwind has, for example. tailwind has a build tool that strips unused selectors and can dynamically build new classes (eg "w-[20rem]") if needed. do all frameworks do that? maybe a few but most do not

> sounds like tailwind is simply the main one you have experience with.

i've used so many frameworks i cannot count them on my hands (and feet even). i've settled on tailwind because it solves problems better than any other tool i've used. that's my preference yes, but your implication that i'm just using it because it's the only thing i know is so far from the truth it's comical

do yourself a favor and stop assuming people choosing tailwind don't know what they're doing

[gf000]

Even the root comment mentions the exact same failure mode:

> If you need extra elements for styling at that point, you might use a div or span (but you should ask yourself if there's something better first).

This is IMO not worse than vanilla CSS, and it's simply the only way to have customizable layouting in HTML.

[ruszki]

What are the cases when you have to use divs or spans solely for design? When I did such things, it’s only because I was sloppy, or didn’t know back then how to do it without it. But maybe, there are cases, I’ve just never encountered them yet.

[andersonpico]

that's a really useful way to frame the discussion around tooling