The HTML spec says divs are the element of last resort. This issue isn’t that they’re bad. The issue is they are reached for far too quickly.
replyAlso if you think massive numbers of nested divs don’t have a performance impact in the DOM when reusable components are nested (because “styling”), you’re wrong.
> The HTML spec says divs are the element of last resort. This issue isn’t that they’re bad. The issue is they are reached for far too quickly.
replyThe problem is that HTML gives us very few tools to do anything useful. And you can only push certain elements so far. Div and span are generic elements with no semantics attached. You want a layout? Div. You want a change to a part of text? Span.
The only reason they are called "elements of last reserve" because it's only true if you remember that HTML is, has been, and forever will be a tool to display static text, badly. That's why you have article, section, p, and other text-oriented elements. But the moment you want something beyond that? Welcome to divs.