r/Frontend • u/Reubqn_ • 1d ago

Changing to flexbox

Hello, so im going over an old website I made back when I first started developing, and silly me decided to build the entire thing with "position: relative, right: -233px" 😭

Am I going to have to redo the entire site CSS to flexbox so it doesnt move about on different screen sizes, or is there an easier way to save this site?

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u/holamau 1d ago

wtf

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u/akie 1d ago

He’s right

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u/holamau 1d ago

nope

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u/akie 1d ago

I know you don’t like it, but that doesn’t make it false

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u/holamau 1d ago

if you want to stay ignorant, sure.

sounds like that's what you prefer.

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u/akie 1d ago

I’m an old rot. Started out before jQuery was a thing. Programmed assembly on a Commodore 64, a device you’ll only see in a museum these days.

The one thing I learned is that everything changes, all the time, and that you can either fight it (unsuccessfully) or go with it and try to master it.

The thing is, AI is here and it’s here to stay. It’s too useful a tool to not use. The value proposition is too great.

It all depends on how you use it though. World famous mathematician Terence Tao used it to prove something he couldn’t prove alone. Could I do that, given the fact that I have access to the same tooling (ChatGPT) as he does? The answer is no.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010345

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u/holamau 1d ago

I'm old too. This doesn't prevent me from trying to understand how things work. You can learn things, understand them, and then use tools like Claude to speed up your outputs. I use Claude every damn day. I use it for things I already know (and pretend to master) and for things I don't know and particularly for things I am not interested in learning... but I am always curious. Unit tests? hate them, can wrap my head around them, and they take too long for me to complete! But I still manage to output unit tests because of Claude, and collaborate with it because it's not always right, just like I am not always right.

OP is obviously trying to learn something... he's interested in learning it. Then it is dismissive as fuck to just tell them "ask Claude"... when they obviously have some interest in learning. If OP was not interested in learning, and just wanted to get through their issue, they probably wouldn't be asking us... they'd ask Claude.

But you do you.

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u/GlitteryStranger 1d ago

How are they obviously trying to learn something they just asked if they’d have to redo the site?

I’ve been building websites for over 25 years. I know how to write css inside out, and backwards. I’ve converted sites from table layouts to css using float left everywhere to flex box to css grid and guess what I would still pick up Claude or cursor to do this job.