Why “classless” is being discussed
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Is there any classless CSS that you do like, that looks good on mobile etc?
by dematz · Oct 2, 2026
Resets are still viable. They've become shorter over the years as css has advanced. Obviously if you write Tailwind you don't need a reset. For small/alternative stuff, sin…
by drewbitt · Oct 2, 2026
I tend to start a project by making a classless stylesheet of sorts to set a baseline for the theme and branding. Its almost never all you need for an actual project, but it is…
by _heimdall · Oct 2, 2026
I used chota.css ( https://jenil.github.io/chota/ ) in the past to build a couple internal sites for my then-employer. Only ~3kb compressed! And the name sta…
by shrikant · Oct 2, 2026
Nothing classless about this antagonism
by ted_bunny · Oct 2, 2026
I love classless CSS for rapid hand prototyping. LLMs are making this increasingly less necessary, but it's still great for creating tiny, performant CSS pages and some of the s…
by maxk42 · Oct 1, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "classless" over time.
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "classless" over time.
A classless society is a society in which no one is born into a social class like in a class society. Distinctions of wealth, income, education, culture, or social network might arise and would only be determined by individual experience and achievement in such a society. Thus, the concept posits not the absence of a social hierarchy but the uninheritability of class status. Helen Codere defines social class as a segment of the community, the members of which show a common social position in a hierarchical ranking. Codere suggests that a true class-organized society is one in which the hierarchy of prestige and social status is divisible into groups. Each group with its own social, economic, attitudinal and cultural characteristics, and each having differential degrees of power in community decision. Read more on Wikipedia