• hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    9 hours ago

    Centering a div is pretty fucking easy nowadays. What’s way harder is aligning a god damned SVG icon with text.

    • YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth
      8·
      6 hours ago

      Even that is pretty easy nowadays with modern CSS:

      <div> <svg /> Text </div>

      div {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;

    /* If the SVG needs an offset */
    & svg {
        --offset: ...px, ...px;
        transform: translate(var(--offset));
    }
}
      • onlinepersona@programming.dev
        8·
        5 hours ago

        Yeah. Easy. So easy. Text size changes, svg not centered anymore. Add margin (or whatever that inside margin is called), and tada, not centered.

        • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          3 hours ago

          padding

          At the risk of getting flamed - I wonder if because CSS is a design tool not a programming tool, it will seem unintuitive to people from a technical background, but more intuitive to people from a design/arts background

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 hours ago

            Exactly this ^

            When we had “backend” people at my shop, they were god awful at css. It was so bad at one point that I scolded any backend person who touched css because they always fucked shit up if they did.

          • onlinepersona@programming.dev
            4·
            3 hours ago

            I think you’re right. CSS was more understandable to me after reading that it came from the world of print media. It’s how things were laid out there and it was transformed into a language from those with domain knowledge.

            But I would be curious if those who studied art also use the same terminology. If so, then it would make sense that it would seem more intuitive to them.