Ask HN: Bootstrap semantics

[eze]

Hello! Could somebody explain why Bootstrap asks you to write <table class="table"> instead of <table>, or <button class="btn"> instead of <button>? Why not apply the default styling to platform-independent HTML markup?

Thanks!

[Benferhat]

You might not want to style all your buttons in that particular way. The least they could do is separate it into classes. SASS inheritance would be nice, too.

[eze]

Thanks. Yes, the way I humbly see it is that you could always add pre-made or custom-made classes that would alter the default behavior.

[Benferhat]

Yeah, a lot of devs have to do that because they just use the CSS, like from bootstrapcdn [1]. It's nice not to have to, though, especially for those of us who leverage LESS.

[1] http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/

[omgmog]

I think in the case of the "btn" class it's designed to be usable on a, span, button, input, etc.

[eze]

Thanks. I can see your point about "btn" and, to be honest, I'm just getting started with Bootstrap. These points are a bit confusing at first.