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Senff
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I think we’ll always have to use classes and IDs, and replacing them with nth-child isn’t really an alternative, even though technically it would work.

What we’re used to:


(content here)


You could replace that with:

(header here)

(content here)

(sidebar here)

(footer here)

…and then target the divs with div:nth-child(1) to div:nth-child(4).

However, it makes the markup code very non-semantic, which is also not great for SEO, and such.

Also, maintenance is going to be tedious. For example, if you want to insert a new div before the header? Then all the numbers go up with one (they are now div:nth-child(2) to div:nth-child(5)), whereas with the old method, you just add in a div before the header and you didn’t have to do anything with all the others.

So yea, it can be done, but I don’t think it should.