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Please stop inheriting the box-model. The supposed use-case for that is extremely out-dated, inheritance doesn't really help, and it actively makes real box-sizing use-cases more difficult! This #CSS best practice was never the best to begin with: www.oddbird.net/2025/09/04/b...

oddbird.netDon't Inherit the Box ModelIt's time to stop spreading this out-dated practice

Max Böck

@mxb.dev

I've been using border-box on * for so long that I have to actively remind myself it's not the default when I work on a foreign codebase.

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