Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun web design, usually derogatory The practice of
authoring stylesheets withredundant andsemantically unhelpfulclasses .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
class + -itis
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word classitis.
Examples
-
While this is likely to lead to an attack of 'classitis', I'm not sure what the alternative would be and this is an almost identical method to that which Dreamweaver uses.
Think Vitamin 2008
-
It's as pointless as and in my opinion serves to further propagate classitis and iditis, both diseases related to the more famous divitis.
Planet Microformats 2010
-
By marking up the document first, you won't run into such diseases as divitis and classitis, which can sometimes be fatal!
mager commented on the word classitis
Eric Meyer
October 4, 2007
kewpid commented on the word classitis
The overuse of classes in cascading stylesheets.
October 4, 2007
uselessness commented on the word classitis
Article link? I'm a Meyer fan but hadn't heard this before. I do prefer to use IDs for most things, personally, though I wonder what's really so "bad" about classes.
October 5, 2007
kewpid commented on the word classitis
I'd say classitis and divitis are closely linked. It's more to do with introducing lots of redundancy into CSS, when the same effect could be achieved with less code.
Link
October 5, 2007
uselessness commented on the word classitis
I thought classes were meant to reduce redundancy...
October 5, 2007