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What is Vanilla CSS and why is it called Vanilla CSS? What is the origin of this phrase.
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CSS has a much wider array of attributes than HTML, so you can give a far better look to your HTML page in comparison to HTML attributes. Also compared to other frameworks , vanilla CSS is much more bendable and customizable .
Vanilla HTML is a framework built on the concept of not requiring extra markup or class attributes to attain a layout. Just write semantic HTML with some basic knowledge of Vanilla HTML and your layout is done. Seriously, now focus on the things that are actually important, like your design.
In computer science, vanilla is the term used to refer when computer software and sometimes also other computing-related systems like computer hardware or algorithms are not customized from their original form, i.e., they are used without any customizations or updates applied to them.
Vanilla CSS is just CSS, vanilla making it absolutely clear that it's CSS and not a superset of it like LESS or SASS (which are also "CSS").
The phrase originally came into existence with the creation of Less in 2010-2011 (judging by the commit logs of https://github.com/less/less.js), to compare and contrast "Vanilla CSS" with "Less CSS".
i.e. It's clearer to say "Less CSS vs Vanilla CSS", compared to "Less CSS vs CSS"
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