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Ben Sinclair

But they aren't, though, in the real world. People who use Tailwind almost exclusively use it with div soup since you're encouraged to make a lot of wrapper divs.

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Tyler V. (he/him)

I'm not sure why you think that Tailwind encourages creating "a lot" of wrapper divs?

Since it's a utility framework anything it's doing is transferable to using style="" or a class on the same element where it's applied, so any "div soup" is still just an issue with the HTML directly, not Tailwind.

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Ben Sinclair

You're right in principle, but if you look at anything that's been styled with Tailwind you'll see what I mean.

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Tyler V. (he/him)

You're still putting the blame on Tailwind when the issue is with HTML.

It's fine if you don't like Tailwind because of whatever reason. But that doesn't mean that anyone that uses it can't write clean HMTL.

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Ben Sinclair

Anyone can write clean HTML. The people who are writing things like Tailwind (and a bunch of other things, like React components for example) are typically not doing that, though. Almost all the Tailwind tutorials you'll find use DIV soup, and people starting out with it just follow suit.

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Tyler V. (he/him)

Let's stop making assumptions about people that use specific tools - Thanks.