classitis

noun

Etymology

From class + -itis.

  1. derived from *kelh₁- — “to call, shout
  2. derived from classis
  3. borrowed from classe
  4. suffixed as classitis — “class + itis

Definitions

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

    • Classitis can be avoided through a better understanding of CSS selectors.
    • Frameworks tend to suffer from divitis and classitis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for classitis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA