css: parse :state(), ::highlight(), four css-pseudo-4 pseudo-elements, @position-try and @font-feature-values

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Problem

• bun build warns Invalid selector. Unsupported pseudo-class or pseudo-element 'state' (and the same for highlight, target-text, search-text, spelling-error, grammar-error) and invalid @ rule encountered: '@position-try' (and '@font-feature-values') on valid CSS. The output is correct. Only the diagnostics are wrong.
• The cause: the name tables in src/css/selectors/parser.rs (parse_non_ts_functional_pseudo_class, parse_functional_pseudo_element, lookup_pseudo_element) and the at-rule match in parse_prelude (src/css/css_parser.rs) trail lightningcss, the source this parser is a port of. An unknown name falls to a fallback that warns and keeps the raw tokens.

Fix

• Add the typed variants lightningcss has: PseudoClass::State { state: Ident }, PseudoElement::HighlightFunction { name: Ident }, TargetText, SearchText, SpellingError, GrammarError. The four plain names go through the case-insensitive table, so ::TARGET-TEXT serializes as ::target-text. ::search-text:current and ::part(x):state(y) parse, as the specs allow.
• Add @position-try <dashed-ident> { <declaration-list> } (src/css/rules/position_try.rs) and @font-feature-values <family-name># { ... } (src/css/rules/font_feature_values.rs). The second one parses the seven sub-rule blocks (@styleset, @swash, ...) as ident: <integer>+ lists, and keeps body descriptors such as font-display as written. A later block of the same type merges into the first, and a later value with the same name replaces the earlier one, as upstream does. An unknown sub-rule or a value with no index is a parse error, the same as inside @page.
• The :state() and ::highlight() names are a plain <ident> (HTML and css-highlight-api), so :state(initial) is valid and CSS modules do not hash them. Script sets both names (ElementInternals.states, CSS.highlights), never CSS, and the exports object has no entry for them. This is the same treatment ::part() gets. lightningcss parses them as <custom-ident> and hashes them. This is the one place the port differs from upstream on purpose.
• Behaviour change: a malformed @font-feature-values body (an unknown sub-rule such as @bogus {}, or a value with no index) warned and passed through before. It now fails the build, like a malformed @page body.
• Verified: test/bundler/css/highlight-state-at-rules-42909.test.ts (all six tests fail on 1.4.3) and new minify_test rows in test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts. Also ran all of test/bundler/css/ (186 pass) and test/js/bun/css/ (the failures there are the pre-existing fuzz-test timeouts under the debug build).

Background

• Bun's CSS parser is a Rust port of lightningcss. Pseudo-class and pseudo-element names resolve through fixed tables. A miss becomes Custom/CustomFunction with the raw tokens, plus a warning. At-rule names resolve through AtRulePrelude in parse_prelude. A miss becomes UnknownAtRule, plus a warning.
• Ident is a plain <ident>, printed as written. CustomIdent rejects CSS-wide keywords at parse time, and in CSS modules its printer hashes the name when custom_idents is on (default).
• CssRule variants are generated by css_rule_variants! in src/css/rules/mod.rs. One row there gives the enum variant, the to_css arm and the deep_clone arm. CssRuleList::minify treats the new rules like @counter-style: it keeps them as a barrier between style-rule merge runs.

Notes

• AtRulePrelude::FontFeatureValues existed as a unit variant with an unreachable!() block arm. Nothing produced it. It now carries the family list.
• Not ported: lightningcss merges two top-level @font-feature-values rules with the same family list during minify. Bun keeps them separate. Output is still valid.
• The family list is parsed with the existing FontFamily::parse, so a generic name such as serif prints bare. lightningcss prints it quoted. The spec excludes generic names from <family-name>, so this only matters for invalid input.
• Names that lightningcss does not know either (::scroll-marker, ::scroll-button(), ::column, @function) still warn. That is the same as upstream and out of scope here (css: the pseudo-element table trails lightningcss, so ::details-content, ::picker(), ::checkmark and the carousel selectors warn as invalid #41120).
• Sibling PR css: parse :active-view-transition-type() and the @view-transition rule #42912 (:active-view-transition-type() and @view-transition) edits the same tables and the same css_rule_variants! list. Whichever lands second needs a small rebase. Both PRs make the same CSS modules choice: script-set names are not hashed, with ::part() as the precedent. css: parse :active-view-transition-type() and the @view-transition rule #42912 asks a maintainer to confirm that choice. The answer applies here too.
• Self-reviewed. The surviving concerns were the sequencing with css: parse :active-view-transition-type() and the @view-transition rule #42912 and the hard error on a malformed @font-feature-values body. Both are stated above.
• Review follow-ups: <ident> names (so :state(initial) parses), ::search-text:current, ::part(x):state(y), descriptors in the @font-feature-values body, and a trailing-token check before a feature value is stored.
• Related: css: the pseudo-element table trails lightningcss, so ::details-content, ::picker(), ::checkmark and the carousel selectors warn as invalid #41120, css: recognize ::details-content, ::picker(), ::checkmark and ::picker-icon #41122, css: :target-current, :target-before and :target-after are unknown to the pseudo-class table, so they are emitted verbatim and never merge #42480, css: ::view-transition-group-children() is not recognized, so a CSS module leaves its name unhashed and does not export its classes #42777.

Fixes #42909

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Walkthrough

The CSS parser now recognizes :state(), new pseudo-elements, @position-try, and @font-feature-values. It adds typed rule models, serialization, cloning, validation, error recovery, and regression tests for parsing, minification, and CSS Modules behavior.

Changes

CSS construct support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
At-rule parsing and rule models src/css/css_parser.rs, src/css/rules/font_feature_values.rs, src/css/rules/position_try.rs, src/css/rules/mod.rs	The parser recognizes both at-rules. @font-feature-values supports feature sub-rules, declaration validation, merging, serialization, cloning, and error recovery. @position-try stores its dashed name and declarations.
Pseudo-selector parsing and serialization src/css/selectors/parser.rs, src/css/selectors/selector.rs	The selector parser and serializer support :state(), ::highlight(), ::target-text, ::search-text, ::spelling-error, and ::grammar-error.
Bundler and minification validation test/bundler/css/highlight-state-at-rules-42909.test.ts, test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts	Tests cover warning-free parsing, invalid input errors, serialization, minification, case normalization, duplicate declarations, and CSS Modules behavior.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e06b4

CSS builds can emit incorrect feature-value declarations after malformed input, while some valid selectors still warn instead of being recognized. These parser correctness issues should be fixed before merge.

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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy the coding requirements in #42909. Selector parsing adds :state(), ::highlight(), ::target-text, ::search-text, ::spelling-error, and ::grammar-error. At-rule parsing a…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The reviewed changes stay within #42909. Parser variants, at-rule implementations, serialization, and tests directly support the eight requested CSS constructs. No unrelated change is identified in th…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary changes: parsing support for :state(), ::highlight(), four CSS pseudo-elements, @position-try, and @font-feature-values.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, implementation, behavior changes, scope, known limitations, and verification results. It covers both required template topics, although it uses Problem and Fix he…

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Inline comments:
In `@src/css/rules/font_feature_values.rs`:
- Around line 162-164: Update FontFeatureDeclarationParser and
FontFeatureDeclarationParser::parse_value to receive FontFeatureSubruleType,
validate the complete parsed index list before insertion, and ignore invalid
declarations. Enforce non-negative values; allow exactly one index for
annotation, ornaments, stylistic, and swash; one or two indices with the first
in 0..=99 for character-variant; and one or more indices each in 0..=20 for
styleset, preserving valid multiple styleset indices before
FontFeatureSubrule::to_css serialization.

In `@src/css/selectors/parser.rs`:
- Line 1250: Update the Token::Function name comparison in the selector parser
so “highlight” matches case-insensitively and still produces HighlightFunction
for mixed-case input. Add a regression test covering a mixed-case functional
::highlight(...) selector.

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Replied to both review threads and resolved them. No code change:

• Feature value indices: the parser stores <integer>+ without a per-block cardinality or range check, the same as lightningcss. The browser ignores a declaration that breaks those rules.
• ::HIGHLIGHT(): the functional pseudo-element table is case-sensitive on purpose (see the comment above the match, from Resolve the audited TODO(port)/TODO(b2)/PORT NOTE backlog #31783). ::highlight() follows the same rule as ::cue() and ::picker().

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^{Updated 6:02 AM PT - Sep 16th, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit 404b249851b2a144628181b9418ef75f6a75b740 passed in Build #116531! 🎉

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The diff is ready for review. Two notes on verification:

• The fail-before proof holds on the release build of main: the new tests in test/bundler/css/highlight-state-at-rules-42909.test.ts and test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts fail on bun v1.4.3-canary.1 (09bb54630) with the eight warnings from the issue.
• The debug build of this branch was verified before the rebase onto Upgrade LLVM 21.1.8 → 23.1.1 and Rust nightly to 2026-09-15 #42851 (the LLVM 23 upgrade). The local proof environment still has LLVM 21 and cannot build current main, so the with-fix run there is pending on the toolchain, not on the code. CI build https://buildkite.com/bun/bun/builds/116520 runs the same tests with LLVM 23.

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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked: the 'static Ident.v pointer into the parser input in font_feature_values.rs follows the same arena-backed pattern already used in selectors/parser.rs and properties/custom.rs; the new CssRule::FontFeatureValues/PositionTry variants fall through CssRuleList::minify untouched like CounterStyle, so they act as a merge barrier rather than being dropped; and @ position-try nested inside a style rule is handled by the same prelude path as the top-level form.

Extended reasoning...

Inline findings are already posted for the behavioural regressions (CSS-wide keyword names in :state()/::highlight(), ::search-text:current, and font-display inside @ font-feature-values), so this note only records what else was examined. The raw-pointer Ident construction, the minify pass handling of the two new rule variants, and the nested at-rule path were each traced against existing sibling code and found consistent with it. A human should still weigh the warn-to-hard-error change the PR openly makes for malformed @ font-feature-values bodies and the CSS-modules non-hashing decision, which are design choices rather than bugs.

2 verified lower-impact observations (convention, logging or cleanup points) were not posted.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/css/rules/font_feature_values.rs`:
- Around line 288-290: In the declaration parsing method containing the existing
lookup and mutation, call input.expect_exhausted()? before accessing
declarations so surplus tokens invalidate the complete declaration without
changing stored values. Keep the existing lookup and update behavior for fully
consumed, valid declarations.
- Around line 271-310: Update FontFeatureDeclarationParser::parse_value to
validate parsed indices before modifying declarations: reject negative values,
require exactly one non-negative value for stylistic, swash, ornaments, and
annotation, allow one or two for character-variant, and allow any non-empty
non-negative list only for styleset. Return the existing invalid-value error for
rejected input and preserve declarations unchanged.

In `@src/css/selectors/parser.rs`:
- Around line 1247-1257: Update parse_functional_pseudo_element so the highlight
function name comparison is ASCII case-insensitive, recognizing inputs such as
::HIGHLIGHT(name) as PseudoElement::HighlightFunction. Fold only the
pseudo-element name before comparing with “highlight”; preserve the
CustomIdent::parse(input) argument unchanged.

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Pushed fixes for the review findings:

• :state() and ::highlight() take a plain <ident> (Ident::parse), so :state(initial) and ::highlight(default) parse. CSS modules do not hash them.
• ::search-text:current parses.
• ::part(x):state(y) parses (this was also rejected before the PR).
• @font-feature-values keeps body descriptors such as font-display: swap as written instead of failing the build.
• A feature value with trailing tokens is rejected before the value is stored.

Each has a minify_test in test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts. Not changed: the functional pseudo-element table stays case-sensitive like its neighbours, and feature value indices are not range-checked, as in lightningcss. The PR body is updated.

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