So when did CSS turn into a programming language? Browsers are cool, CSS is cool... Javascript got out voted and pushed many conventionalized operations off to the browser to render. Don't get me wrong, better browser rendering is what we need, but CSS went from adding color and style on a page to programming each element on the page.
This was a question I had from about two years ago, getting back into CSS design and building new websites for clients. The change in the web landscape has evolved greatly.
https://claytonerrington.com/blog/css-is-a-programing-language/
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