classitis

The practice of authoring stylesheets with redundant and semantically unhelpful classes.

Noun

  1. The practice of authoring stylesheets with redundant and semantically unhelpful classes.
    • Classitis can be avoided through a better understanding of CSS selectors. - 2006, Paul Haine, HTML Mastery: Semantics, Standards, and Styling, page 175:
    • Frameworks tend to suffer from divitis and classitis. - 2011, Antony Kennedy, Inayaili de León, Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites, page 102:

Origin

From class + -itis.

Related

divitis