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andrei_says_ on April 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do We Need Specificity in CSS? (2015)

BEM I think comes from choice to aggressively reduce complexity, not from ignorance.

Sprinkled with a tiny bit of specificity classes for state, it combines best of both worlds.

ZenPsycho on April 17, 2020 [–]

then why is BEM more complex than just plain CSS? if the idea is to reduce complexity, that’s a giant fail.

andrei_says_ on April 18, 2020 | [–]

It is less complex in that it eliminates specificity conflicts and approaches CSS in a modular fashion by namespacing each module/block.

You have to name things, then you don't have to apply multiple rules.

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