Imagine creating a blog and assigning a class called "post" for timeline posts. Later, another team member adds a highlights section with the same "post" class, causing a collision.
My usual solution is nesting classes instead of keeping anything "global," but I've learned this may not be the best practice:
.main .post {
background-color: red;
}
.highlights .post {
background-color: green;
}
When examining CSS files from large websites, I notice numerous global class names for specific page elements, leaving me to wonder how they address conflicts. Do they meticulously scan the entire project for existing class names before adding new ones? How do they handle instances where a desired class name already exists? Renaming simply to avoid conflict seems like an unsatisfactory solution.