---
title: "“We had 90% unused CSS because everybody was afraid to touch the old stuff”"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/we-had-90-unused-css-because-everybody-was-afraid-to-touch-the-old-stuff--ty-jituya
source_url: https://css-tricks.com/we-had-90-unused-css-because-everybody-was-afraid-to-touch-the-old-stuff/
type: article
source: "CSS-Tricks"
published: 2021-08-18T22:57:10.628Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["css"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 33
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# “We had 90% unused CSS because everybody was afraid to touch the old stuff”

**[CSS-Tricks](https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks)** · 2 min read · 33 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

At PayPal, 90% of CSS was unused because people were afraid to touch it. That’s one of the reasons I sometimes like component-based-styling solutions. Because nobody is afraid of the styles anymore — they are tightly coupled to what they are styling. I’m excited that “scoped styles” are making a bit of a comeback in standards discussions.

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