css: keep nested rules in source order across vendor prefix passes by robobun · Pull Request #43407 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-09-19T07:36:38Z

Problem

With nesting compiled away (default bun build targets), .p:fullscreen { & .k:is(.a, .b) { color: red } & .k.c { color: blue } } prints .p:-webkit-full-screen .k.c before .p:-webkit-full-screen .k:-webkit-any(.a, .b), at equal specificity. Safari 14 to 16.3 parses only the -webkit- rules, so .k.a.c is red, not blue.
Cause: StyleRule::to_css (src/css/rules/style.rs) printed the nested rules again in every prefix pass. A nested rule with passes of its own waited for the parent's last pass (is_deferred_to_final_prefix_pass, css: don't duplicate vendor-prefixed nested rules per ancestor prefix pass #31270). Siblings without passes did not wait.

Fix

Each pass prints only the rule's declarations. The nested rules print once, after the passes. A nested rule without passes of its own prints in the passes of its closest ancestor that has some (StyleContext::prefix_passes).
Correct because every variant of a rule now prints before every variant of the rules after it. A browser applies the last rule it can parse, so source order holds for any subset of variants.
Output stays linear in nesting depth and is unchanged with nesting preserved. A nested @scope prints once (Notes).
Verified: test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts (12 new cases, 10 fail without the fix), test/bundler/css/, test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts, test/js/bun/css/. Self-reviewed: 10 concerns raised, 8 addressed.

Background

src/css ports lightningcss. For targets without CSS nesting, the printer writes nested rules after the parent and substitutes the parent selectors for &.
A selector that needs vendor prefixes gets a set of passes, for example -webkit- and unprefixed. The rule prints once per pass: .p:-webkit-full-screen{…}.p:fullscreen{…}.
A browser drops a rule it cannot parse, so each browser sees a subset of the variants.

Notes

Why not print the nested rule inside the matching pass of the parent. That order fails for the opposite source order. .p:fullscreen { & .k.c { color: blue } & .k:is(.a, .b) { color: red } } would print P-webkit .k.c, P-webkit .k:-webkit-any(), P .k.c, P .k:is(). Chrome 80 to 87 parses :fullscreen and :-webkit-any() but not :is(), so blue would win and the source says red. Main prints that order correctly today. Two of the new cases pin it, so they pass with and without the fix.

What else changes in the output (nesting compiled away only):

A rule that follows a nested rule with passes of its own printed as .p:full-screen .k.c in the last pass of the parent, which no browser parses. The nested rule reset Printer::vendor_prefix to empty. Every nested rule now sets its own pass, so the selector is .p:fullscreen .k.c. css: keep target-added vendor prefix passes on cloned and re-minified rules, and never print a bare :full-screen #43339 fixes the same symptom with a restore of the prefix.
A parent with passes and plain nested rules now prints all variants of its own block first, then all variants of each nested rule. Before, it printed the whole subtree once per pass. Both orders are correct for plain nested rules. The new one is what the same CSS prints when it is written flat.
An at-rule nested in a rule with passes (@media, @supports, @container, @layer, @starting-style) prints once, with every variant inside. Before, it printed once per pass, and as an empty @media (…) {} in a pass where all of its rules waited for the last pass.
A nested @scope (& > .x) printed one copy per pass. It now prints one copy, with the prelude in the last pass. VendorPrefix::FIELDS ends with NONE, so that is the unprefixed pass when there is one. Every browser with @scope (Chrome 118, Safari 17.4, Firefox 128) parses the unprefixed form of every selector that the targets can prefix. A parent with only an explicit prefix (.p:-webkit-full-screen) keeps that prefix in the prelude.

Which variants print does not change otherwise. I compared the set of printed rules between this branch and main for 44 nested inputs with four target sets, and output with nesting preserved (no targets, chrome 130) for 42 inputs, which is byte-identical.

Not changed here:

A nested rule whose own passes are only NONE still misses the prefixed variants of the parent (.p:fullscreen { & .k:is(.a, .b) {} } with safari 14 prints only .p:fullscreen .k:is(.a, .b)). css: print explicitly prefixed selectors as written in every vendor prefix pass #42106 covers it. After both land, the passes of a nested rule can be own | ctx.prefix_passes.
@scope to (…) with no scope-start is still truncated by an early return in ScopeRule::to_css. css: stop truncating @scope to (...) and stop replacing & in the scope-end selector #43146 and css: fix @scope nesting, relative selectors, and declarations in @scope #43165 fix it. This PR only makes that path restore the prefix.
first_rule and emitted_first_pass in to_css are still always set together.

Deleted: Printer::skip_prefixed_nested_rules, CssRule::is_deferred_to_final_prefix_pass, and the helpers_newline / helpers_end inner functions of to_css_base, which each have one caller left.

Comments. Every comment that this PR adds or edits is one line. That includes the long doc comments of Printer::prefix_expansion_bytes, MAX_PREFIX_EXPANSION_BYTES and PrinterErrorKind::maximum_vendor_prefix_expansion. They said that every pass prints the nested rules again, which is now true only with nesting preserved. #31642 has the full account of that bound.

Self-review. Addressed: the @scope early return skipped the prefix restore, the doc comment of maximum_vendor_prefix_expansion still described every mode, the bun build test now asserts that the default targets still need the prefixes and no longer greps stderr, one test now checks exact whitespace, comment length and a variable name, an inaccurate sentence in this description, and the list of overlaps below. Not addressed: the first_rule / emitted_first_pass pair (above, it predates this change), and the comments at lines 17-19, 59-62, 67-70 and 77-80 of test/js/bun/css/nested-vendor-prefix-duplication.test.ts still describe the wait for the last pass. The tests in that file pass unchanged. The file is left alone because its 64 MB bound tests run close to the 5 s default timeout in debug builds, and #42106 and #42100 rewrite it.

Overlap with open PRs. None of them changes the order. #42106 (to_css pass set), #42100 (to_css_base, with_context, StyleContext fields), #43339 (to_css; two of its new css.test.ts cases, .p:fullscreen { & .k:fullscreen {…} & .j {…} }, pin the old order and need new expectations), #43146 and #43165 (ScopeRule::to_css), #43434 (the @supports color fallback rules; it merges without a text conflict, and its nested expectations pin the old order). Whichever lands second needs a rebase.

test/js/bun/css/nested-vendor-prefix-duplication.test.ts guards the linear output size from #31270 and #31642 and passes unchanged.

In test/js/bun/css/, the fuzz tests and the 64 MB bound tests can time out at the 5 s default in a debug build on a loaded machine. They do so with and without this change (measured on a debug build of main).

…les that follow it With nesting compiled away, a style rule prints once per vendor prefix pass, and each pass printed the nested rules again. A nested rule with passes of its own printed only in the last pass of the parent, so the siblings that follow it in the source printed before it in every earlier pass. A browser that parses only the prefixed variants then applied the rules in the wrong order. Each pass now prints only the declarations of the rule. The nested rules print once, after the passes. A nested rule without passes of its own prints in the passes of the closest ancestor that has some, which `StyleContext::prefix_passes` carries. A nested `@scope` prelude prints in the last pass. This replaces `Printer::skip_prefixed_nested_rules` and `CssRule::is_deferred_to_final_prefix_pass`. The output stays linear in the nesting depth. Output with nesting preserved does not change.

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The PR propagates vendor-prefix passes through CSS serialization. It changes nested-rule emission and scope prefix handling. Tests verify prefix ordering across nesting, formatting, and browser-targeted builds.

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Nested CSS vendor-prefix serialization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Prefix context and deferred-state removal `src/css/error.rs`, `src/css/printer.rs`, `src/css/rules/mod.rs`	`StyleContext` stores vendor-prefix passes. The printer propagates them. Deferred nested-rule state and filtering were removed. Related byte-limit documentation was updated.
Nested rule and scope serialization `src/css/rules/style.rs`, `src/css/rules/scope.rs`	Style rules use target-based nesting support and inherited prefix passes. Compiled nesting emits nested rules once after parent passes. Scope serialization selects the configured pass and restores the previous vendor prefix.
Prefix ordering validation `test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts`	Tests cover nested rules, nested at-rules, `@scope`, multiple nesting depths, formatting modes, differing prefixes, and browser-targeted builds.

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Valid @scope to (...) rules produce incomplete CSS and lose their nested content. This should be corrected before merge.

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robobun · 2026-09-19T07:37:26Z

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Closed without a merge. A maintainer did not take this change in #47025, which consolidated the open CSS parser pull requests. The reason given: it is right or harmless, but not worth its code, the bigger output or the behavior it changes.

main keeps the order that this PR changed. At 7942008, StyleRule::to_css still prints a nested rule that has passes of its own in the last pass of its parent. I read that from the code. I did not run it on that commit.

How I reproduced it (bun 1.4.3-canary, main at 26e7a4b):

echo '.p:fullscreen { & .k:is(.a, .b) { color: red } & .k.c { color: blue } }' > app.css
bun build app.css --target=browser --outdir out && cat out/app.css

On that build, the output starts with the blue rule .p:-webkit-full-screen .k.c, then prints the red rules, and ends with .p:full-screen .k.c. #47025 took the part of #43339 that stops the bare :full-screen.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the to_css_base rewrite for whitespace drift with nesting compiled away: the moved \n + newline() in to_css is gated on !self.declarations.is_empty(), which is the same len > 0 && rules.len() > 0 condition the deleted helpers_newline used, and the } close still runs under the same has_declarations flag. The ? error paths in ScopeRule::to_css that skip the dest.vendor_prefix restore only leave a Printer that is never reused after a failed print, so they are not a live issue.

Extended reasoning...

Findings were reported inline, so this note only records what else was examined. The to_css_base simplification was diffed against the old helpers_newline/helpers_end control flow for the nesting-compiled case (DeclarationBlock::is_empty checks both normal and important declarations, matching the old len computation), and the ScopeRule::to_css prefix save/restore was traced through its ? sites: a print error aborts the whole serialization, so a stale vendor_prefix on that path has no observer. The change is a non-trivial printer reordering with cascade-order implications, so a human maintainer look is still worthwhile; this is not an approval.

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robobun · 2026-09-19T08:13:14Z

@coderabbitai The @scope to (…) finding was withdrawn in #43407 (comment). The truncation is on main too, and #43146 owns the fix. Please update the merge risk note in the summary.

coderabbitai · 2026-09-19T08:13:28Z

@robobun, acknowledged. I will update the merge-risk note to state that the @scope to (…) truncation is pre-existing on main, is not caused by this PR, and is tracked by #43146. I used the existing PR-specific context for this correction.

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Learning: In `src/css/rules/scope.rs`, the early return for `scope to (<scope-end>)` when `scope_start` is absent is a pre-existing serialization truncation defect. The vendor-prefix ordering change only restores `Printer::vendor_prefix` before that existing return. Do not report the truncation as a regression in the nested CSS vendor-prefix serialization change; the dedicated fix is tracked in GitHub pull request `#43146`.

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robobun · 2026-09-19T11:01:43Z

Coordination note for #43434, which touches a neighbour of this change.

css: keep the vendor prefix passes of a rule in its @supports color fallbacks #43434 changes the rule that get_supports_rules builds for color fallbacks. Its vendor_prefix is now the pass set of the source rule, not NONE. With an empty set, the rule follows the pass of its parent, like the base rule does.
With this PR, such a rule prints in the passes of its closest ancestor that has some. That is the result css: keep the vendor prefix passes of a rule in its @supports color fallbacks #43434 wants, so the two changes fit together.
The nested expectations in css: keep the vendor prefix passes of a rule in its @supports color fallbacks #43434 pin the order that main prints today. The PR that lands second needs new expectations for them.
The two branches merge without a text conflict. css: keep the vendor prefix passes of a rule in its @supports color fallbacks #43434 first extended is_deferred_to_final_prefix_pass to skip the empty at-rule blocks. I removed that part because this PR removes the deferral.

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### What does this PR do? Consolidates the open pull requests on the CSS parser (`src/css`: parsing, minifying, lowering, printing, CSS modules) into one. 179 open pull requests were in scope. Each was judged by one rule: **the output must mean to a browser what the input meant.** Every claim was run through a build of `main`, a build with the change, lightningcss 1.33 and Chromium 156 (CSSOM, computed values, painted pixels for colors and gradients), and counted against 10,116 real stylesheets: the published CSS of about 190 popular npm packages, plus stylesheets from open source repositories. 107 land here, whole or in part, most of them cut down. The source diff is net negative. Of the 10,116, 9,509 are stylesheets that someone ships. The rest are test fixtures of other tools (521), Tailwind v4 source that needs its plugin (59) and SCSS, PostCSS or template source (27). | 9,509 shipped stylesheets | `main` | this branch | |---|---|---| | fail to build | 71 | 35 | | ... of those, valid CSS that Bun rejects | | 0 | | minified output reads differently in Chromium than the input | 552 | 2 | | CSS modules with a name that is referenced but not defined, or exported but not defined | 166 | 0 | | all 10,116 | `main` | this branch | |---|---|---| | fail to build | 192 | 141 | | minified output reads differently in Chromium than the input | 593 | 15 | | build on `main`, fail here | | 0 | | right on `main`, wrong here (minified, and at the default targets) | | 0 | | size of the minified output, no targets | 162.32 MB | 162.47 MB (+0.093%) | | size of the output at the default targets | 224.1 MB | 210.2 MB (-6.2%) | A syntax error is a build error, with one exception: the IE star hack `*zoom: 1` is skipped, because tachyons and handsontable ship it. The 35 shipped stylesheets that fail are invalid CSS: 28 have a selector that Chromium drops (semantic-ui-css, swiper, @ionic/core, Adobe Spectrum, xp.css), 2 an `@import` after other rules, and one each `@supports not X and Y`, a nested `@keyframes`, a stray comma, a selector list in `::slotted()`, `@media screen\0` (govuk-frontend). The 2 that read differently fold a `color-mix()` inside a gradient (see the known gaps). The growth of the minified output is rules and declarations that `main` deleted by mistake: 87 KB of rules, 45 KB of prefixed declarations that only browser targets can rule out. #### Popular CSS that `main` breaks today - normalize.css, modern-normalize, sanitize.css: `font-family: monospace, monospace` is collapsed to `monospace`, which changes the font size from 16px to 13px (#46662). - CKEditor 5, Tabler, Carbon, VitePress, Ionic, PatternFly, Excalidraw: a rule of custom properties is deleted as a "duplicate" of a later rule with the same selector and other custom properties. 37 stylesheets lose 1,681 custom properties (#33684). - Material Components, daisyUI, DocSearch, plyr: a `var()` size loses to its own fallback (#42101). - nextra, daisyUI, CKEditor: declarations written after a nested rule are moved above it (#45462). - antd 4, purecss, govuk-frontend: browser hacks in selector lists start to apply everywhere (#42100). - foundation-sites, flatpickr, 98.css, blueprintjs, scalar, react-datepicker: the build fails on valid CSS (#46756, #38552, #38534). tachyons, handsontable: it fails on the IE star hack (#46751). - nodejs.org, Mantine: a CSS module exports classes that no rule defines, because the `@apply` or `@mixin` in them is moved out of the rule (#46759). - hint.css and 42 more: `z-index: 1000001` and `1000000` become the same number (#46715). - Adobe Spectrum: `--version: 5.0.1` prints as `5.1`. - A quarter of all stylesheets: minified output has a stray space in `align-items: center` (#41993). #### Behavior changes to look at first 1. **`light-dark()` is kept as written at the default browser targets** (#42009). The lowered form `var(--buncss-light, a) var(--buncss-dark, b)` is invalid unless a compiled `color-scheme` covers the element: 184 of the 215 real stylesheets that get it never define the variable, so every browser drops the declaration. The docs section on the polyfill is removed. 2. **`border` is not built from longhands** (#42072): `border-width:0;border-style:solid;border-color:red` stays three declarations, because `border` also resets `border-image`. 305 real stylesheets grow by 30 KB in total; `bootstrap.min.css` by 113 bytes, 5 gzipped. No real stylesheet was found where the old merge shows, so this is the one to drop if size matters more. 14 existing expectations change. 3. **A CSS module no longer exports names that only occur inside `:global(...)`** (#45487). 73 real modules lose 202 export keys, all of them names that no rule has. `import { g }` or `composes: g` of such a name becomes a build error. 4. **Container names and `@counter-style` names stay global in a CSS module** (#45247 by @mikamikasuki). `main` hashes the `@container` name but not `container-name`, so a named query never matches. postcss-modules (Vite, css-loader, Next.js) keeps them global; lightningcss and esbuild hash both. Global keeps a container that is queried from another file or from JS working. 5. **Syntax errors are build errors, also two that `main` lets through**: a media query that stops short (`@media screen and {`, `@media not {`, `@import "a.css" screen and;`) and `@media (width <) foo {`. No stylesheet of the 10,116 has either. A condition that is valid by the grammar though no browser knows it, `( ... )` or `fn( ... )`, is kept as written (#46756): `(min-width:0\0)`, `(not(hover))`. 6. **Declarations after a nested rule stay where they were written**, as a nested declarations rule (#45462). Changes the output of 199 real stylesheets; in a fuzz of 2,850 nested programs compared by computed style, `main` was wrong in 1,056 and the pull request's code, before it was trimmed here, in none. 7. **`Bun.color`**: `color()` inputs are converted instead of returned as a string (`Bun.color("color(srgb 1 0 0)", "hex")` was `"color(srgb 1 0 0)"`); `currentColor`, system colors and `light-dark()` give `null` in the converting formats instead of the keyword as a string; a relative color or `color-mix()` outside sRGB is clipped, not gamut-mapped (`hsl(from oklch(100% .399 336.3) h s l)` is `#ff5bff`, was `#fff`). 8. The `:-moz-any()` and `:-webkit-any()` copies of rules with `:is()` are gone at the default targets (#45945, #42029). The `:-webkit-any()` copy outranked the original rule: `.title{color:blue} :is(h1,h2,h3){color:red}` painted red. 5.8% of all default-target output was the `:-moz-any()` copies. 9. `Property` grows from 216 to 224 bytes: `Url` stores its text as a slice so that two `url()` values can be compared (#46895). The pull request packed a pointer and a `u32` behind `unsafe` to avoid that. #### Not in this PR, needs a decision - **Raise the default browser targets (#40369) and add a `cssTarget` option (#40368).** Today: Chrome 80, Edge 80, Firefox 78, Safari 14, Opera 67, and no public way to change them. At Vite 8's floor the output of the 9,924 stylesheets is 15.3% smaller (3.9% gzipped). About a dozen fixes here only matter at today's floor, and code for older targets is unreachable without the option. - Vendor prefixes for `user-select`, `appearance`, `hyphens` and five more (#45814): 1,116 real stylesheets lack a prefix they need at the default targets. And for `backdrop-filter` (#44648): 173. - Clip instead of gamut-map in the sRGB fallback of a plain wide-gamut color: deletes about 90 lines, changes every pinned fallback hex. If the mapping stays, #44647 by @oddharsh makes it closer to what browsers paint (colors off by 2/255 or more: 168 to 110 of 3,170 real ones). #### Changes **Rules: duplicates, merging, nesting, fallbacks** - The `:-moz-any()` copy of every rule with `:is()` or `:not(a, b)` is gone: Firefox 78 has `:is()` (#45945). 1,164 real stylesheets - Keep declarations written after a nested rule in place with a nested declarations rule (#45462). 379 real stylesheets - With nesting compiled away, an unknown at-rule inside a style rule was moved out of it: `.wrapper{@apply flex}` printed a bare `@apply flex;` and the rule was gone, so a CSS module exported a class that no rule defines. It now stays in a block under the compiled selector. 72 real modules with Tailwind's `@apply`, 25 with Mantine's `@mixin` (#46759). 316 real stylesheets - Keep !important in the rules generated for logical properties and color-scheme (#38597). 311 real stylesheets - With browser targets, remove an earlier duplicate rule only when its declaration block is equal (#46861). 171 real stylesheets - Compare custom property names in `PropertyId` equality and importance in duplicate-rule detection (#33684). 40 real stylesheets - Keep same-condition @supports rules and empty named @layer blocks (#46733). 31 real stylesheets - Keep target-added vendor prefix passes on cloned and re-minified rules, and never print a bare `:full-screen` (#43339). 12 real stylesheets - Keep the selectors on rules added for color fallbacks and logical properties (#43240). 3 real stylesheets - A later declaration of a property drops the `@supports` color copies of the earlier one, which printed after the rule and won (#45560). 2 real stylesheets - Do not merge style rules in a stylesheet that holds `revert-rule` (#46953). 1 real stylesheets - `@import ... supports(-webkit-mask: none)` kept its prefix (#38589) **Properties and shorthands** - Print align-items:center without a stray space when no safe/unsafe keyword is given (#41993). 3,317 real stylesheets - Emit the physical longhands instead of the inset shorthand for targets without it (#38583). 1,452 real stylesheets - Keep the stops of an upward gradient as written, and drop a `50%` hint only at the midpoint (#46790). 104 real stylesheets - Emit unparsed border-block-* declarations when compiling logical borders (#38582). 89 real stylesheets - Keep repeated font families and dedupe only the inserted system-ui fallbacks (#46662). 88 real stylesheets - A `width` / `height` / `min-*` / `max-*` with `var()` or `env()` was printed before the plain fallback written above it, so the fallback won (#42101). 26 real stylesheets - Keep box-orient and box-direction when flex-direction or flex-flow follows (#45672). 16 real stylesheets - Write held prefixed background declarations at every flush (#46882). 6 real stylesheets - Derive equality for Size2D and BorderRadius, and keep every prefix in the border-radius handler (#45665). 2 real stylesheets - Print `none` instead of an empty border-image, mask-border or mask-box-image value (#45143). 2 real stylesheets - Keep font/transition sub-properties on the side of the shorthand they were written on (#41990). 2 real stylesheets - CSS-wide keywords are not names: `font:12px Arial;font-family:inherit` printed `font:12px inherit`, `color-scheme:inherit` and `color-scheme:auto` printed `normal`, `transition-property:unset` was folded into `transition` (#42022). 2 real stylesheets - Only fold font longhands into `font` when the rule declared a `font` (#45459) - Keep a font family name quoted when its identifiers do not read back as the same name (#46606) - Stop rewriting valid positions into ones browsers reject (#45197) - `border` is no longer built from longhands unless the rule also sets what `border` resets (`border-image`), and an author's `border-image` reset is no longer dropped. `transition` is likewise only written where the rule wrote one, because it resets `transition-behavior` (#42072) - `border; border-image: <gradient>; border-image-slice: 1` lost the gradient in every default build (#42018) - A prefixed `linear-gradient` keeps its direction, written or generated: the prefixed syntax names the starting side and measures angles differently (#46697) **At-rules** - Print @font-face format() keywords as strings (#37979). 439 real stylesheets - Print @supports `not` conditions without a leading space (#38559). 88 real stylesheets - Reset after the number token of a unicode-range (#45835). 33 real stylesheets - Keep `<general-enclosed>` media and container conditions as written (#46756). 24 real stylesheets - A strict range such as `(width < 768px)` lowered for old targets still matched at exactly 768px. The step is now `.02px`. The `not all and` form for other units is not taken (#46806). 18 real stylesheets - Keep scanning an @supports condition after a nested block (#38552). 9 real stylesheets - Every `@counter-style name` printed as `@counter-stylename`, which browsers drop (also #46692). In a CSS module the name now stays global, like the `list-style` that refers to it (#33679). 9 real stylesheets - Keep a keyframe whose block has an invalid item (#46288). 2 real stylesheets - Read an @Property initial-value on the stylesheet's parser, keep an unmatched value as written (#45806). 2 real stylesheets - `@media {}` is `all`. A media query that stops after `and`, `or` or `not` (`@media screen and {`) is a build error; `main` printed `not all` or dropped the condition, silently. The `@layer` and type selector parts are not taken (#46869). 2 real stylesheets - Accept a name-only `@container` and a `style()` feature with no value (#46689). 1 real stylesheets - Parse `<timeline-range-name> <percentage>` keyframe selectors (#45652) - Allow `or` inside parentheses after a media type (#45088) - Print the `=` comparison in media and container queries as `=` (#45071) - Parse the @font-palette-values font-family descriptor as a list of family names (#45484) **Selectors** - Never wrap a selector list in :is() (#46787). 414 real stylesheets - Stop emitting :-webkit-any() copies of :is() that outrank the original rule (#42029). 373 real stylesheets - With browser targets, a selector list with a vendor-prefixed member was split, which revives hacks that rely on other engines dropping the whole list: `.s *::-ms-backdrop,.s{flex:auto}` applied everywhere. Rewritten; the list is printed as written (#42100). 42 real stylesheets - Print the vendor prefix on downleveled :any-link, :read-only, :read-write, :placeholder-shown and :autofill (#42131). 12 real stylesheets - Fix nesting lowering of a `&` that does not lead its selector (#43047). 8 real stylesheets - `@scope`: `&` and implicit selectors compile to `:where(:scope)`, relative selectors and bare declarations parse (#43165). 7 real stylesheets - Only reject bare :global / :local pseudo-classes in CSS modules (#38534). 5 real stylesheets - Stop truncating `@scope to (...)` and stop replacing `&` in the scope-end selector (#43146). 2 real stylesheets - `[xl|href$=".pdf"]` lost its namespace prefix (#45159). 2 real stylesheets - Match An+B keywords exactly and take only `+` as the leading sign (#42953). 1 real stylesheets - Parse ::details-content and ::picker() like ::part() (#45504). 1 real stylesheets - Parse :window-inactive as an ordinary pseudo-class, and accept it after ::selection (#45815) - Print :nth-col(1) and :nth-last-col(1) in functional form (#41575) - `li::before::marker` failed the build (#45810) - `&` inside `:nth-child(... of S)` is resolved when nesting is compiled away. The second selector serializer (326 lines) is deleted (#43024) **Colors and `Bun.color`** - Keep light-dark() as written under the default browser targets (#42009). 227 real stylesheets - Number and percentage channels parse in `lab()`, `lch()`, `oklab()`, `oklch()`, `hsl()` and `hwb()`; the hue of `lch` / `oklch` is no longer scaled by alpha (#45084). 130 real stylesheets - `Bun.color` returns `null` for `currentColor`, system colors and `light-dark()` in the converting formats, instead of the CSS keyword as a string (#33047). 130 real stylesheets - Relative colors: channel keywords are on the scale of their function (`rgb(from #369 calc(r + 10) g b)`), the origin's alpha is kept, a relative color kept as written gets no `@supports` copies, and a result outside sRGB is not folded (#45362). 31 real stylesheets - Keep rotate: 0deg out of none, and keep the origin alpha in relative colors (#38486). 13 real stylesheets - Compute the D50 reference white in f32 so greys convert to lab(l 0 0) like lightningcss (#38535). 7 real stylesheets - Return a missing hue for a grey from conversions into lch, oklch, hsl and hwb (#45201). 5 real stylesheets - Fix color(a98-rgb), srgb-linear relative colors and color-mix(in xyz-d50) (#38487). 4 real stylesheets - Match named colors without regard to ASCII case (#45092). 3 real stylesheets - Fold min(), max() and clamp() over plain numbers (#39515) - `calc(l - .08)` in a percentage channel of a relative color became NaN and printed `#000` (also #45970) (#45971) - Bun.color: convert color() inputs instead of returning them as a CSS string (#38488) - A `color-mix(in srgb, ...)` result outside sRGB prints `color(srgb ...)` instead of a gamut-mapped hex (#39269) **`calc()` and numbers** - Rounding to 6 significant digits ate into the integer part: `z-index:2147483647` became `2147480000`, `max-width:9999999px` became `10000000px`, `--x:1234567.5` became `1234570`. It now only cuts a fraction short: a value kept as tokens prints its source text, a typed value prints every integer digit and at least one digit of the fraction (#46715). 43 real stylesheets - A number without a unit is no longer repaired into `px` (`height:1.5715` is dropped by a standards-mode browser, so it prints as written), `calc(-1 * 0)` is not a length, and on a property of the range [0,∞] (sizes, border radii, padding, border and outline widths, gap, `flex-basis`, `font-size`) a `calc()` that folds below zero prints `0` instead of an invalid negative literal, and a negative literal no longer replaces the valid declaration before it (`width:10px;width:-5px` printed `width:-5px`) (#42104). 24 real stylesheets - Print numbers from the f32's shortest digits, not its f64 expansion (#38565). 17 real stylesheets - Print negative numbers below 1 with a single minus sign (#38516) - Keep math functions over two different length units as written (#38489) - Fold rem() with a truncated quotient, so it keeps the sign of the dividend (#32286) - A one-argument `min()` / `max()` around a sum printed without any function (`width:100% - 20px`) (#46145) - `round()` breaks ties upward and handles a negative step as browsers do (#45249) **CSS modules** - A CSS module exports its `@keyframes` names (`styles.spin`). Hashing is unchanged (#46720). 145 real stylesheets - A name inside `:global(...)` prints plain but was exported as `name_<hash>`, a class no rule has (also #38573) (#45487). 90 real stylesheets - Keep container names global in CSS modules (#45247). 6 real stylesheets - Tag the keyframes name when an `animation` value falls back to raw tokens (#46034). 6 real stylesheets - In a plain stylesheet `composes: a from "./b.css"` was treated as an import: the file was inlined and an absolute path printed (#45961). 4 real stylesheets - Drop a rejected composes instead of failing the file at print time (#38538). 1 real stylesheets - Keep every rule's custom properties for the composes conflict check (#38523) - Keep composes working after a nested rule in the same block (#38520) - `IdentOrRef::hash` read 2 of 16 bytes, so in release builds every class of a module hashed alike (#30784) **Tokens, `url()`, diagnostics** - The block skip stack no longer allocates on every block exit (#39533) - Report the diagnostic's line without its line breaks in position.lineText (#38342). 192 real stylesheets - Compare `url()` values by their text (#46895). 26 real stylesheets - Values kept as tokens keep the blanks they were written with instead of having them re-invented at print time: `attr(x type(<number>))` printed `type(< number> )`, which browsers drop. Minified output still drops the blanks that cannot matter (#45577). 19 real stylesheets - The IE star hack (`*zoom:1`) failed the whole build. The declaration is skipped, as every browser does. It is the one syntax error that builds: tachyons, handsontable and jasmine ship it (#46751). 8 real stylesheets - The path of a copied asset spliced into `url()` is always quoted, so a file name with a space or a parenthesis cannot end the `url()` (#41557). 7 real stylesheets - Move the skip loop of parse_until_before out of the generic body (#39520) - Remove dead code from bun_css: the unused `impl Default for Property` (#45618) - Default the at-rule and qualified-rule parser traits, drop the url_to_css shim (#31999) **Speed** Four inputs that took quadratic or exponential time, or produced output out of proportion, are now linear, with no new limit and no extra pass (#31639, #42243, #38531, #43421). **Tests only** - `css-fuzz.test.ts` never ran in CI and timed out on debug builds; it is a deterministic table now (#38500) - `nth-anplusb-ident.test.ts` counts heaps in a child process (#46331) - `color.test.ts` checks the ansi-16 sweep with one `expect()` (#42824) - Not CSS, but it failed this PR's CI and fails on `main` too: `ws-proxy.test.ts` on Windows, "a message sent during a TLS renegotiation arrives after it". The helper server now renegotiates from the callback of the frame's write (#46170) **No pull request covered these** - `--v: 5.0.1` printed as `5.1`, `--w: 1.0.0` as `10`, `--x: 1+2` as `12`, `2n+1` as `2n1`: a number token that touches another keeps its source text. - `color-scheme: auto` printed as `normal`, and `color-scheme: dark light` as `light dark`. - A bare `:global` or `:local` in a CSS module sets the scope of the names after it, up to the end of the selector, as in css-loader. It was a build error. - The scrollbar states (`a:horizontal`, `::-webkit-scrollbar{&:horizontal{}}`) are valid in a plain compound, as in WebKit and Blink. - Without browser targets, `-webkit-box-align`, `-ms-flex-align` and the like were dropped next to their standard form (flatpickr, foundation-sites, materialize-css: 28 stylesheets), and `-webkit-fill-available` before `-moz-available` (beercss). - `(-o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2/1)` printed as `2`. - `sin()`, `cos()` and `tan()` are exact at multiples of 90deg: `calc(100px * cos(90deg))` printed `-.00000437114px`. - A `display-p3` color at targets that have P3 but not the other `color()` spaces (Safari 10.1 to 14) got itself as a fallback. - `width: rem(-18px, 5px)` folds to a negative literal once `rem()` is right; it prints `0`. - Consecutive nested declarations rules, which arise when same-query `@media` blocks in one rule merge, are folded into one and count against the existing selector expansion limit as the `&{}` rules they replace did. #### Known and not fixed here - Four longhands are still folded into a `transition` the author did not write where the targets add a prefixed copy of a property (`mask-image` at Chrome 80): only the shorthand gives the copy its own times. - A later `background`, `box-shadow` or `border-*` declaration still loses to the `@supports` copy of an earlier `var()` value of the same property with a wide-gamut color. Same on `main`; #45560 is taken for the properties of the fallback handler and for unparsed values only. - A merged rule prints the unprefixed name in the passes of the rule it absorbed: `.d::-webkit-input-placeholder{}.d::-moz-placeholder{}` prints `::placeholder` for the second (#42106, not taken: it breaks the merge of prefix-equivalent rules). - The `border`, `outline` and `font` shorthands, `line-height`, `scroll-padding`, `background-size` and a few more still print a `calc()` that folds below zero as a negative literal. No real stylesheet has one. - `all` is not a property Bun knows, so `a{margin-top:1px;all:unset}` prints `all` first. Same on `main`. - A selector kept as raw tokens loses the blank before `*` when minified: `--sel: .dark *` prints `.dark*`. Same on `main`. - `width:calc(0% + 12px)` folds to `12px`, which lays out differently in a table cell. Same on `main`. - The `:dir()` / `:lang()` rules of a lowered logical property print before the nested rules of their rule, so a logical declaration written after a nested rule of equal specificity still loses to it. Same on `main`. - A fraction is still rounded to 6 significant digits (`12345.678` prints `12345.7`, `33.3333333333%` prints `33.3333%`). Keeping every digit would add up to 282 KB over the corpus. - `@keyframes "quoted"` is hashed in a module but not exported. - In a module, a keyframes name inside a `var()` fallback is not hashed: `animation: var(--enter, fade 1s)`. Same on `main`. - A `color-mix()` or relative color folded to a hex inside a gradient changes the interpolation from Oklab to sRGB (VS Code, clawhub). Printing `color(srgb ..)` instead needs a fallback for `mask-image`, `list-style-image` and custom properties at the default targets, which have none. - A comma list in `@container` still fails the build. - After a bare `:global`, names that are hashed at print time (`::view-transition-old(foo)`) are still hashed; inside `:global(...)` they are not. #### Pull requests in scope that do not land here - Duplicates of a pull request that lands here: #36961 (of #37979), #38478 (of #46662), #38480 (of #46733), #38482 (of #46715), #38491 (of #38500), #38508 (of #45201), #38513 (of #45362), #38573 (of #45487), #38640 (of #38500), #45525 (of #45247), #45589 (of #46756), #45970 (of #45971) - Already fixed on `main`: #38674 - Right, but for input nobody writes (0 of 10,116 stylesheets, and not new syntax): #31916, #38526, #38592, #39349, #41139, #41801, #42042, #42484, #43078, #45604, #45908, #46086, #46221, #46224, #46273, #46694, #46707, #46737, #46755, #46816, #46870, #46934 - Right or harmless, but not worth their code, their bigger output or the behavior they change: #30905, #31924, #33332, #34426, #36225, #38006, #38512, #38547, #38551, #38561, #38572, #38576, #38607, #38623, #38667, #38692, #42106, #42912, #42918, #43407, #43434, #44700, #45442, #45546, #45747, #45759, #45825, #45946, #46061, #46127, #46206 - Need a decision (see above), stay open: #40368, #40369, #44647, #44648, #45814 - Stays open: #45787 Out of scope: CSS linking and chunking in the bundler, the dev server, docs-only pull requests, and repository-wide sweeps that touch `src/css` in passing. Thanks to @mikamikasuki (#45247), @alii (#39520, #31999) and @oddharsh, whose measurements on #40369 and #41990 were used. Fixes #16727. Fixes #24770. Fixes #30772. Fixes #44704. Fixes #45089. Fixes #45237. Fixes #46872. ### How did you verify your code works? - The 35 CSS test files pass on a debug build, also with `FORCE_COLOR=1`. 600+ of the tests in this branch fail on a build of `main`. An earlier head of this branch passed all 179 CI jobs that ran. - The reproduction of each issue listed above was run on `main` (wrong) and on this branch (right). - Differential run over the 10,116 stylesheets, `main` against this branch, minified without targets and through `Bun.build` at the default targets: no stylesheet that builds on `main` fails; Chromium 156 compares the output with the input rule by rule (CSSOM, then computed values on a sized element in a standards-mode document, colors as painted pixels in sRGB and P3). The comparison has 195 control pairs that must read equal or different. For stylesheets that read differently on both builds, mostly because of lowering, the sets of differences were compared; the three new ones are two minifier fixtures that are wrong on both and one comparison artifact. - CSS modules are checked for consistency instead, since hashed names defeat the comparison: every reference points at a name the output defines, every export exists. - `Bun.color`: 59 inputs in 13 formats on both builds; every changed cell was read.

Jarred-Sumner · 2026-10-27T19:50:57Z

Not taken in #47025 (7942008), which consolidated the open CSS parser pull requests. It is right or harmless, but not worth its code, the bigger output or the behavior it changes.

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