The Search For The Holy Grail: How I Ended Up With Element Queries, And How You Can Use Them Today

For some time, we've run up against the limits of what CSS can do. Those who build responsive layouts will freely admit the frustrations and shortcomings of CSS that force us to reach for CSS preprocessors, plugins and other tools to help us write the styles that we're unable to write with CSS alone. Even still, we run into limitations with what current tools help us accomplish.

Think for a moment of a physical structure. If you're building a large edifice with weak material, a lot of external support is required to hold it together, and things have to be overbuilt to stay sturdy. When you're building a website out of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, this external support might look like frameworks, plugins, preprocessors, transpilers, editing tools, package managers and build processes.

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