CSS is like…
I mused on Twitter recently:
CSS is like chess. You can learn the basics in a day and spend a lifetime mastering it.
I quickly thought it would be fun to collect other people’s ideas on what CSS is like. Here is what you said:
@BenTortora:
CSS is like a girlfriend. No matter how hard you try, she will always interpret it a different way.
@colinismyname:
CSS is like marching orders for pixels.
@peterwilsoncc:
CSS is like religion; People quickly become fundamentalists.
@lise_latorre:
CSS is like doing puzzles all day and getting paid for it.
@BreRoz:
CSS is like a pencil to paper; I get any result I want!
@frankstallone:
CSS is like a river, it is always flowing and you have to go with the current not against it.
@rayFinkle:
CSS is like clothes for your HTML.
@bdsexton:
CSS is like an STD; it’s unpleasant and you’re stuck with it.
@joemsak:
CSS is like giving your girlfriend sexy lingerie. She’s already formed well, but you like when she dresses up.
@propstm:
CSS is like pants. You don’t have to use it. But you look silly without it.
@jarret23:
CSS is like a box of chocolates you never know what your gonna get.
@iEthan:
CSS is like an old man that doesn’t know what he’s doing or where he is.
Bobby Phillipps:
CSS is like a Rubik’s cube. Sometimes you’ll line one part up, but that completely screws up something else you had lined up.
Fede Isas:
CSS is like an old Beatles’s song. Simple, but still beautiful.
Mike Rogers:
CSS is like an old man’s wiener, some times it just doesn’t work the way it’s suppose to.
Of course, feel free to leave your own in the comments!
CSS is like a bitch, enough money and everything is possible.
CSS make me addicted
Damn, what’s with lack of CSS love?
CSS is like that girlfriend you had who was WAY out of your league. You know she’s too hot for you and it’ll eventually end, but you’re enjoying it while it lasts.
so sayeth karma ;)
Agreed…CSS itself to me is amazing and awesome, but it’s the browsers that tend to take the edge off that said awesomeness.
That is 23 characters over a Twitter post but I agree with you
Here ya go:
CSS is like that girlfriend who was WAY out of your league. You know it’ll eventually end, but youre enjoying it while it lasts
Twitter friendly
http://twitter.com/csskarma/status/1509351871
CSS is like having bi-polar disorder. You feel on top of the world until you check your design in IE…
CSS is the Lando Calrissian to my Han Solo
CSS is like a cupboard. Do not put plates in it! If its not to big, a couple of spoons on top would not disturb to save time. Below would even be better but than you need to bend over.
What?
crickets
@BenTortora – I having been laughing for a minute straight! Nice one
CSS is like a sculptor’s tools to be used on the clay that is markup.
Css does for HTML what botox did for Demi Moore
On the contrary, I don’t agree with BenTortora.
CSS does not interpret a different way what you do… is Internet Explorer!
Let’s not get confused ;)
Here’s my take:
For those Quake 3 lovers out there: CSS is like strafe jumping, hard to master and hard to understand how it works, but once you know how to use it, you can do things you thought impossible before.
You could replace strafing with bunny hopping in QW / CPM :P
CSS is like, so totally awesome! :)
My pal Jesse made quite a funny one.
http://twitter.com/jhixson/statuses/1471523444
CSS is like nothing things :)
Here’s another one I stumbled upon:
http://twitter.com/ockhamdesign/status/1491895998
CSS is like sex. Sometimes it’s euphoric, and sometimes the positioning is awkward.
That made me laugh so hard! CSS is like that.
Brilliant!
I’m sitting here trying to come up with something to top that, but completely drawing a blank. This one’s just too true.
“CSS for me it’s not a Counter Strike Source” – T-Law (http://twitter.com/iniwoonet)
1.#CSS is .like { fun: 60%; creativity: 80%; pain:15%; }
2.* html #CSS is .like { fun: 0%; creativity: 0%; pain:100%; }
Second example very funny :) But it’s true :D
Very nice one :)
That first one is hilarious!
@mikecasey – CSS is like death metal, impossible to understand but for some reason alot of people seem to like it.
The “CSS is like a box of chocolates you never know what your gonna get.” reply was from @geekyjohn
CSS is like music, the more you get involved the more you appreciate its beauty.
CSS is like dieting; you don’t always slim down your code as much as you want, and bloating occurs without warning.
CSS is like a boner; if you put it in somewhere it doesn’t belong, it might not work anymore. :(
css is like CSS! :)
CSS = Cascading Style Sucks!
CSS is a Fashion Designer of HTML
CSS is like a fine woman… it has class, style, and all the right attributes!
Agree 110%.
Really funny
CSS is like the replies above… some are stupid, some are smart.
CSS is the cure for OCD
Holy shit, this is true.
CSS will transform you; no matter what your case is!
CSS Is like Our life, Once You start off on the Journey ain’t NO Way back!
Norman Flecha
http://www.151years.com
CSS is like a god among tables.
CSS is that person that always tries to make the rules, that in the end, nobody ends up following.
CSS is a rapstar, all bling bling
CSS make life
bloom
into a colorful rainbow
CSS is like a mask for the ugly plain HTML pages.
css is like an ex-girlfriend (or boyfriend), no matter how how much you love her, there will always be another man she needs to satisfy.
CSS is like sex. You’ve just gotta keep bangin’ away until you nail it
CSS is like clothes for your <body> ;)
Hey, alright. My Rubik’s Cube comment made it. :D
CSS is like a boat, it floats.
Haha :)
This was a great idea for a post Chris.
Some of these are really funny. :)
Too funny. These crack me up. :D
Those are hilarious, and disturbingly, most are true.
CSS is like jerking off..you can imagine all you want, but when you’re done it still sucks..
CSS is like being a magician, always trying to learn that new, sweet trick.
To me, CSS is like “whoa”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBMgP3NIpmM
CSS is like a koala bear crapping a rainbow in your brain.
LOL! That one really cracked me up! Great one!
CSS3 is CSS 2.1s techno-geeks cousin, he’s got all the cool toys but he won’t let you play with them!
CSS is like culture of HTML, can’t live without it…
This was fantastic, lol… good piece : )
CSS is like a pleasant dream, until IE6/7 turns it into a never-ending nightmare
That’s so great! I love the “girlfriend” one (although I would never have the guts to laugh about it in front of my girlfriend …)
Cheers for the collection!
CSS is like paint-job for webpages
All perceived creations are but reflections of the original big bang! And, it took God just 2 days to do these.
He spent the next 5 days coming up with the CSS to make things appear beautiful and different at once.
CSS is like a physical therapist; there’s a lot of pain, but things are always better in the long run.
CSS is like math. There are many routes to a solution, yet screwing one value up can break a lot of things. You really have to test, break, and make layouts in order to master CSS.
As with math, if you can create a problem you surely can solve it. Because you have an understanding of the set of underlying principles contained within.
Hey my weiner one made it!
CSS is like an illness, better to find the cause of the problem than to fix the symptom.
CSS is like a RELATIONSHIP, no matter how well you treat your partner, the in-laws will not approve you.
In-laws: Mother-In-Law=IE (hardly works), Rest of the-in-laws=FF, Safari etc (works sometimes).z
CSS is like God, they say He’s all-mighty, but the world remains full of misery
CSS is like an blood of HTML, Can’t live without it.
CSS is awesome. Until you try and put it in IE. But that is because IE really …..
Finnaly.. with IE 8 there is hope :-)
CSS is like the software industry: it was pretty cool until Microsoft got involved.
CSS is like a pregnant woman taken inside delivery room, we don’t actually know what the result we are going to get…………..
CSS is hell to me: spent countless weeks trying to understand it and somehow I’m still not getting it! WHY OH WHYYY!!! =( WHYYYYYYYY!
CSS is like traffic. One single wrong turn, and you may not get home tonight.
css is like a jungle if you have the map you find the treasure, if you don’t you get lost easily.
CSS is like a boat I’m not on.
css is like a piece of shit because it is shit
CSS is like analogies
Annoying when used too much and increasingly addictive when used too little.
Complexity hidden in a catchy phrase. ahh Cascading Stylesheets must be simple.
Not everyone understands it equally well, or interprets it the same. Example: IE is like that loud mouth guy in the front of the literature class that thinks the work is wrong (if it’s translated he’ll claim the true meaning got “Lost in Translation”) if his interpretation proves wrong.
Doesn’t work well when put inline. Analogies in the work itself just make the work more confusing, but as a entirely separate interpretative helper it improves understanding and makes the work clearer.
To analogize what I just said, CSS is like analogies. Some people just shouldn’t use them, some shouldn’t read them, and some people shouldn’t interpret them.