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		rebane2001 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CSS now has an if() conditional function not as much as you would think, the if statements don't really affect the css crimes scene because pretty much everything was already possible before

shevy-java 10 days ago [–]

But then why was it added?

magicalist 10 days ago | [–]

Because it's silly to rely on hard to read hacks when you could just add an if() function.

culi 10 days ago | | [–]

Yup. It's the same reason nested CSS was added. It doesn't really add any new functionality. Just makes your CSS neater (or way messier when misused). it's syntactic sugar really

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