Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>
>
> In reply to @TiddlyTweeters footnote; I also think CSS is one of the areas 
> that need more love. IMO we see *very* little variations in TW 
> appearences. IMO, CSS is a kind of poor mans coding to affect how things 
> appear so I suspect the big JS-boys here don't fully appreciate this need 
> for us non-JS mortals.
>
>
> I took Josiah to be expressing agreement with my suggestion of replacing 
> Vanilla and Snow White with an off-the-shelf CSS framework. 
>

Aha! That would be great! 

What exactly is the need that isn’t being recognised?
>

Thanks for asking. I'm referring to that CSS is relatively simple to learn 
at a rudimentary level but still pretty powerful - but that TW is not 
really set up for manipulating css easily. Here are a few things that would 
make working with CSS simpler and many are kind of connected:

   - The main obstacle for manipulating the styling is by far the current 
   stylesheets *monolithic* nature. These should be split up even though I 
   can't say exactly how. In complement to splitting them, they could 
   afterwards be grouped into cascade order, perhaps by means of tags or... 
   (next bullet)
   - Slugification <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/3379> of 
   tiddler titles would enable more direct manipulation of CSS in wikitext, 
   using e.g tiddler titles as class names and even appended as selectors.
   - Cascade order deserves 
   <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/2823> an explicit D'nD 
   listing somewhere under Ctrlpanel > Appearance 
   - To create a SS tiddler, it ought to be enough to add a 
   $:/tags/Stylesheet tag, i.e auto-detect type.
   - Local styleblocks are easily "lost". If there was a way to 
   automatically "collect" (transclude?) them, it would be relatively easy to 
   create custom complex stylesheets or themes gradually.

Hope this clarifies a bit.

<:-)

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