Solving FizzBuzz with CSS

by jackiebalzer • 14 years ago

123 27 14 years ago

Goes to show how many (greatly needed) programmatic features CSS is adding. Also shows that some people love a creative way to attack a problem.

its_so_on• 14 years ago

As God is my witness, CSS will need to be split into a presentation language and a logic language. /s

evincarofautumn• 14 years ago

You know, that’s not such an outlandish claim. CSS is accumulating features that seem to me completely out of place in a styling language. Then again, HTML isn’t perfect, nor JavaScript, nor PHP or any language—but we still get stuff done with them, so who am I to complain?

DavidAbrams2• 14 years ago

Goes to show what a hack-riddled mess Web presentation still is.

danab2• 14 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe you need any of the :not statements, and instead or (3n) and (5n) you can just use 15n for the 'fizzbuzz'.

The cascade of the CSS will take care of the cases the div is a 'fizzbuzz'.

Sorry I can't post the example, Dabblet is working strangely for me this morning.

CSS that should work:

  /**
   * FizzBuzz with CSS
   */

  body {
  	counter-reset: fizzbuzz;
  }

  div {
  	width: 100px;
  	height: 20px;
  	background: #ddd;
  	margin: 0 0 10px;
  }

  div::after {
  	content: counter(fizzbuzz);
  	counter-increment: fizzbuzz;
  }

  div:nth-child(3n)::after {
  	content: "fizz";
  }  

  div:nth-child(5n)::after {
  	content: "buzz";
  }

  div:nth-child(15n)::after {
  	content: "fizzbuzz";
  }

jackiebalzer• 14 years ago

Correct, you don't need the :nots as long as the CSS is in that order, since the :after content would be overridden correctly. You would need them if you changed the order of the statements.

I started the experiment using background color instead of "fizz", border color instead of "buzz", and box-shadow instead of "fizzbuzz" which necessitated the need for :nots since the properties weren't overriding.

jontro• 14 years ago

This should also work:

div:nth-child(3n):after { content: ""; }

div:nth-child(3n):before { content: "fizz"; }

div:nth-child(5n):after { content: "buzz"; }

danab2• 14 years ago

I retract my answer in favor of this. Clever.

Flam• 14 years ago

Brilliant.

eykanal• 14 years ago

Heh... how this looks in IE 8: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Fz3jT.png

scribblemacher2• 14 years ago

To be fair, isn't that what most sites look like in IE8?

jenius• 14 years ago

hahah win.

steelaz• 14 years ago

To be fair, IE8 was released on March 2009 (according to wiki), Chrome at that time was v1.0 and Firefox was v3.0.

catch23• 14 years ago

Usually IE8 users are stuck in IE8 unless they let the OS upgrade their browser, so most of the users that started with IE8 are still stuck in 2009. Chrome/FF users tend to have less issues with upgrades.

alainbryden• 14 years ago

No rest until CSS is Turing complete.

espo• 14 years ago

You mean like this CSS-implementation of Rule 110? http://eli.fox-epste.in/rule110-full.html

thisisblurry• 14 years ago

For those who tried this in Chrome, like me, it won't work :(

Try it in Firefox instead.

DavidAbrams2• 14 years ago

Is this some regional drinking game? Like Three-Man?

Solving FizzBuzz with CSS

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