Overheard a web dev say "flexbox fixes everything" and had to bite my tongue

Tried using flexbox on a forum layout with 20 nested tables and it just broke worse, anyone else get tired of people acting like CSS is a one-size-fits-all solution?

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ruby_grant12d ago

Ngl it's just a tool for layouts, not a magic wand for fixing trash-tier HTML from 2004. The hype around flexbox gets old when people act like it somehow solves bad code structure or decade-old nested table nightmares. Flexbox has its place but pretending it fixes everything is just setting folks up for disappointment.

ivan21112d ago

Saw a similar test where flexbox just gave up on old nested tables too.

loganhart12d ago

Saw a talk a few months back where the guy tested flexbox on a 15 year old forum template with like 200 lines of inline styles and table-based layouts. It just collapsed everything into a single column mess. People act like modern CSS is magic but it still cant fix terrible HTML from 2004 lol.