Cursor getting stuck doing simple tasks

Maybe I’m missing something or doing something wrong, but when there is a simple task with CSS or doing something in Tailwind, Cursor seems to just.. not understand what it is doing.

I have a table with data and the related image and one of them didn’t have an image, so it had a placeholder instead. The placeholder was not the same size as the image. It took like 7 attempts for Cursor to be able to fix it.

For another element, the text was white so I needed to change it. It took like another 5 attempts for Cursor to fix it even tough I explained like 3 times that the .text-white class needed to be removed from the elements inside the container.

Other example: I needed to change the size of an image. It took like 5 attempts.

And this happens only with this kind of simple tasks. With more complex tasks this kind of issue never happens.

Hey, thanks for the report. For small CSS/Tailwind edits try:

Can you share:

  • Mode (Inline Edit/Chat/Plan), model, is Auto enabled
  • Minimal code snippet/repo and reproduction steps
  • 2-3 Request IDs from failed attempts (chat message menu > Copy Request ID)
  • System info from Help > About and Cursor version
  • Screenshots/console errors if any

Then we’ll figure it out and suggest the exact fix.