Suggest an editImprove this articleRefine the answer for “Why are inline styles considered bad practice?”. Your changes go to moderation before they’re published.Approval requiredContentWhat you’re changing🇺🇸EN🇺🇦UAPreviewTitle (EN)Short answer (EN)**Inline styles** (the `style` attribute placed directly on a tag) are considered bad practice because they mix CSS with HTML, prevent style reuse, and make a project harder to maintain and scale. **Key point:** inline styles are suitable only for rare, targeted cases, not for regular development.Shown above the full answer for quick recall.Answer (EN)ImageInline styles are considered bad practice for several reasons: 1. **Poor readability and code maintenance** When CSS is mixed with HTML, structure and presentation get tangled together. The page becomes harder to read and maintain, especially when there are many elements. 2. **Styles cannot be reused** If the same style is needed in 10 places, it has to be copied 10 times. Any change then has to be edited manually in every place, which increases the risk of mistakes. 3. **Harder to change the project's design** When styles are collected in one file, you change a rule once and it applies to the whole site. With inline styles, this is not possible. 4. **Violation of the separation of concerns principle** HTML should describe structure and content, and CSS, appearance. Inline breaks this principle and mixes the roles. 5. **Problems with cascade and priority** Inline has high priority, so overriding such styles in the future becomes harder. Sometimes `!important` has to be used, which tangles the code even more. ## Summary Inline styles are suitable only for rare, targeted cases, but for regular development they get in the way of scalability, reuse, and code readability.For the reviewerNote to the moderator (optional)Visible only to the moderator. Helps review go faster.