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Namespacing CSS libraries
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Imagine a web application that uses multiple CSS frameworks, libraries, components, etc. Class names are bound to conflict. Imagine two libraries: freeform.css and aid.css

Namespaced by prefixing classes

<a class="freeform-text--bold freeform-display--block aid aid--focusable">example</a>

Namespaced by data attribute

<a data-freeform="text--bold display--block" data-aid="focusable">example</a>

Which is cleaner?

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