Are empty classes in BEM normal?

Question

css

When laying out according to the BEM methodology, sometimes blocks without styles are obtained. For example:

<div class="block">
    <div class="block__item"></div>
    <div class="block__item"></div>
    <div class="block__item"></div>
</div>

.block {}
.block__item {
     color: #000000;
     padding: 10px;
}

Is this normal or am I misunderstanding something and there should not be such blocks?

Answer 1

Everything is fine. In BEM markup, you specify a class for each element. In css, if it is not used, do not write anything.