Appreciation post: pure CSS art used to mean real box-shadow layering, not this 200-div thing

Oscar Williams · 2026-10-20T00:10:02.400303+00:00

Back in 2016 I built a little sunset scene with maybe 40 lines of layered gradients and it still holds up, but now I see people stack 200 empty divs and call it CSS art. Is it just me or does the div-stacking thing feel like cheating?

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