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Stacked on #38531. Land it first.

Problem

  • bun build merges style rules that have the same selectors. .a{color:red}.a{color:revert-rule} prints .a{color:revert-rule}, and the element loses its red color. 1.2.11 to 1.3.14 print both rules.
  • merge_style_rules (src/css/rules/mod.rs:1158) puts both declaration lists in one rule. The duplicate-rule removal (mod.rs:857) deletes the earlier rule.

Fix

  • The value parser flags a stylesheet that holds the ident revert-rule in a value.
  • In a flagged stylesheet merge_style_rules does not merge, and the duplicate-rule removal does not remove. Other stylesheets are unchanged.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts (40 new tests fail on 1.4.3), test/js/bun/css/, test/bundler/css/. WPT in Chrome 153: 45 of 46 (1.4.3: 26).
  • Self-reviewed: 28 concerns raised, 25 addressed. Not done: typed values (css: keep css-wide keywords and percentage stretch out of the font and transition shorthands #42022), test.failing rows, a tracking issue (Notes).

Background

  • revert-rule gives a property the value it has without the rule that holds the keyword. Chrome 148, Firefox 150 and Safari 27 ship it.
  • Two .a rules merged until 1.2.10 and merge again since 1.4.0 (Rewrite Bun in Rust #30412). No issue reports it.
  • Considered the guard for every stylesheet, with no flag. It changes 3,220 of 12,361 npm stylesheets (+0.47%). A maintainer can choose it.

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Notes

The stack. The diff of this PR is 22 lines in src/css and the tests. Its base branch, robobun/2afc5df7/css-revert-rule-stack-base, is main 449877f3e0 with #38531 merged in. #38531 conflicts with main since #42948. The merge threads the style_rules parameter of #42948 through flush_pending_merges, end_merge_run and cascade_merge_with_previous. Nothing else changes.

Why the stack: a flagged stylesheet does not merge the rules of a joined @media list. On main each join sends the whole list through the minifier again. 2,000 same-query @media rules then cost 4.9 G instructions, where main needs 23 M. 256 of them in a nested list fail to build. #38531 minifies the joined list once, for every stylesheet. With it, every flood below costs 2.00x per doubling. The base against main: 0 of 12,362 npm outputs differ with browser targets, 2 with none (material-components-web, +180 B each).

Who reported it. No bun issue. A read of the minifier found it. One report exists upstream: a comment on parcel-bundler/lightningcss#580 from 2026-01-29 ("the current property merging behavior is no longer safe"). bun 1.4.3 prints that comment's merged output. webpack 5.112 has a guard for the revert keywords in its CSS minifier (_ROLLBACK_RE in lib/css/syntax-parser.js). Earlier CSS fixes that merged here with no issue: #33147, #42948. If the guard must wait for a bun report, the tests can stay as test.todo.

Outputs (bun build a.css --minify, release binaries)

Input 1.2.11 to 1.3.14, this PR, esbuild 0.21.5 1.2.10, 1.4.0, 1.4.3, lightningcss 1.33.0
.a{color:red}.a{color:revert-rule} as written .a{color:revert-rule}
.a{margin:1px}.a{margin-top:revert-rule} as written .a{margin:1px;margin-top:revert-rule}
.a{color:red}.b{top:0}.a{color:revert-rule} as written .b{top:0}.a{color:revert-rule}
.a{color:revert-rule!important}.a{color:red} as written .a{color:red;color:revert-rule!important}
  • The merge is by design, a port of lightningcss. From 1.2.11 to 1.3.14 a class or id name compared by pointer, so such rules never had equal selectors in a plain CSS file. CSS modules and selectors with no class or id merged in every version (div{color:red}div{color:revert-rule}).
  • For the input of the upstream comment, .test{font-size:36px;color:green}.test{color:var(--foo, revert-rule)}, this PR prints .test{color:green;font-size:36px}.test{color:var(--foo,revert-rule)}. The comment asks for one rule without the keyword declaration. That is wrong when --foo has a value.
  • Inside one rule nothing changes.

What flags a stylesheet. TokenList::parse_into_impl (src/css/properties/custom.rs:552) parses every value that has no typed form. The ident revert-rule there sets the flag. It can be the whole value, a var(), env() or attr() fallback, an if() branch, or a part of a custom property. A plain var(--x) does not set it: no stylesheet construct lets a custom property pass a CSS-wide keyword through var().

What a flagged stylesheet changes. Two reads in src/css/rules/mod.rs:

  • merge_style_rules returns false. No rule merges into the rule before it, also not two rules with equal blocks.
  • The duplicate-rule removal keeps the earlier rule.

Every merge is off, not only the merge of unequal blocks. The others look safe and are not:

Measurements. Release builds of bun_css in a small harness. Instruction counts are instructions:u from perf_event_open, minimum of 7 runs. "Base" is the stack base.

Stylesheets without the keyword (15 files in test/js/bun/css/files, 2.9 MB, 20,780 style rules):

  • minify +60,684 of 147,476,088 (+0.041%): one test per merge_style_rules call. parse +6,670 of 521,224,514. Total +67,533 of 826,548,530 (+0.008%).
  • allocations +0, syscalls +0, .text +224 B. StylesheetExtra grows from 24 to 32 B, one per stylesheet.
  • 12,362 npm stylesheets: 0 outputs differ from the base, with browser targets and with none. None holds the keyword.
  • bun build of the 15 files, with and without --minify, for --target browser and bun: 60 of 60 outputs equal main's.

Flagged stylesheets:

  • 96 stylesheets that GitHub code search finds for the keyword: 80 are flagged. 12 copies of WPT pages get the fix. 11 authored stylesheets grow by 0.12% to 2.35%, the largest by 3,476 B. 3 write font-family:revert-rule and are not flagged (css: keep css-wide keywords and percentage stretch out of the font and transition shorthands #42022).
  • With .zz{color:revert-rule} appended to each of 12,361 npm stylesheets: 3,220 change, +2,301,596 B of 493,364,183 (+0.467%), gzip -6 +83,224 B (+0.131%). The median file does not change, the 99th percentile is +6.9%, 58 files grow by more than 10%. The worst, a file of repeated rules, goes from 4,250 to 23,430 B.
  • Built again from bun's own output at browser targets, a flagged stylesheet grows. Nothing removes the prefixed copies that each build prints. .z{color:revert-rule}.a:not(.b,.c){color:red} has 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 rules after builds 1 to 6 (main: 4, then 6). With .a:autofill:not(.b,.c) it has 4, 8, 18, 42, 100 and 240 (main: 4, then 8).
  • 205,182 generated stylesheets of 3 to 5 rules, checked against a model of the cascade. They use two classes and the properties top, left, --x and --y. main gives another computed value for 65,442 of them, this PR for 0.
  • Long runs (23 families with the keyword, N to 2N rules): 2.00x per doubling for every family, at or below the base.

WPT at 68d964a5f2, all 15 pages named *revert-rule* (46 subtests). Each <style> block is built alone and put back:

as written 1.3.14 1.4.3 this PR
Chrome 153 46 44 26 45
Firefox 157 37 37 20 38
WebKit 27.2 (Playwright build) 44 42 24 43

--minify gives the same counts. The subtest that fails after this PR and not before is "can revert from a CSSNestedDeclarationsRule" (#45462). Firefox has no if() and passes two if() subtests by accident after a build. One style block (bare declarations in @scope) does not parse on any version and stays as written.

Leftovers, with owners. The test.todo rows hold these. The PR that lands second turns its rows into tests.

Other designs

  • A test for each pair of rules scans both blocks for each pair and needs a cache. The first build of it was cubic on long runs. webpack's guard is of this kind and reads the property name: it merges .a{top:1px}.a{inset-block-start:revert-rule}.
  • A flagged stylesheet that keeps the join of equal blocks and the removal of equal rules grows by 0.049% with the flag forced. Those merges rest on block equality, see above.
  • The guard for every stylesheet needs no flag and no parser change. It costs the +0.47% above, and the tests of css: minify merged duplicate rules in linear time #31920 and css: stop stale duplicate-rule indices from erasing live rules #42948 that pin merged output change.

Self-review, not done

Suites run on the debug build. test/js/bun/css/, test/bundler/css/, test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_html.test.ts. The 4 failures are time-boxed tests in css-fuzz.test.ts. They fail the same way on main in a debug build.

`revert-rule` gives a property the value it has without the style rule
that holds the keyword. The same-selector rule merge and the
duplicate-rule removal moved or deleted declarations across that rule
boundary, so `.a{color:red}.a{color:revert-rule}` printed
`.a{color:revert-rule}`. bun 1.2.11 to 1.3.14 printed both rules.

The token-list parser now records, per stylesheet, that a value holds
the ident `revert-rule`. In such a stylesheet `merge_style_rules` does
not merge, and the duplicate-rule removal does not remove the earlier
rule. Every other stylesheet is minified as before.
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Updated 10:10 PM PT - Oct 25th, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit 4c9224964366de19b5c2d53a0235cd899d8b4af9 passed in Build #132929! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 46953

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-46953 executable, so you can run:

bun-46953 --bun

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How it was reproduced: bun build a.css --minify with .a{color:red}.a{color:revert-rule} in a.css.

  • bun 1.4.0 and 1.4.3 print .a{color:revert-rule}.
  • bun 1.2.11 to 1.3.14 print both rules.
  • In Chrome 153 the element is red with the source and not red with the 1.4.3 output.

The fix landed in #47025 (7942008). This PR is closed.

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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 findings, I also checked whether a revert-rule in one bundled file could fail to protect rules in another file: minify runs per source in src/bundler/ParseTask.rs:1330 and the linker only concatenates the already-minified sheets, so rules from different files are never merged with each other and the per-stylesheet flag is sufficient there. StylesheetExtra has a single construction site (src/css/css_parser.rs:2671), so the new field is always populated.

Extended reasoning...

The source diff is 22 lines across src/css/css_parser.rs, src/css/properties/custom.rs and src/css/rules/mod.rs adding a per-stylesheet may_revert_rule flag set from the TokenList ident path and read at the two style-rule merge/dedup sites, plus a large block of new CSS minifier tests. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Six confirmed inline findings (unbounded growth on re-bundle because the vendor-prefix fold is also disabled, the uncovered name-valued property path, nested-rule hoisting and logical-property expansion, and two pre-existing merge bugs) mean a human should weigh the scope of the guard; the one additional candidate, cross-file leakage of the flag, was ruled out because the bundler minifies each source separately.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🟣 src/css/rules/mod.rs — Pre-existing: users bundling CSS with two adjacent @ supports blocks that share a condition lose the second block's rules entirely, and this PR's guard does not reach it. At src/css/rules/mod.rs:529-534 the duplicate-condition arm does break 'arm without pushing or merging supp, so the rule is discarded when self.v = rules runs at mod.rs:642. Fix: fold the second block's body into last_rule.rules.v (as the @ media arm at mod.rs:516-523 does) and set pending_at_rule_minify, so nested style rules flow through the gated minify_style_arm path. Minify runs unconditionally in ParseTask.rs:1330, so this affects every bun build, with or without --minify. [also at: src/css/rules/mod.rs:533 - Pre-existing, left open by this fix: a stylesheet whose revert-rule rule sits in a second @ supports block with the same condition loses that whole block, so the browser never sees the keyword.]

    Why this was flagged

    Input @ supports (display:grid){.a{color:red}}@ supports (display:grid){.b{color:blue}} through bun build (src/bundler/ParseTask.rs:1330 calls minify for every CSS file, --minify or not). In CssRuleList::minify the second @ supports reaches the arm at src/css/rules/mod.rs:528; last_rule.condition.eql(&supp.condition) is true, and the branch at mod.rs:529-534 executes break 'arm without appending supp.rules.v to last_rule.rules.v and without pushing supp into rules. moved_rule stays false, the rule is left in self.v, and self.v = rules at mod.rs:642 drops it. The base branch does the same, so this is pre-existing, but it is a merge site in the same minifier this PR audits: with @ supports (top:0){.a{color:red}}@ supports (top:0){.a{color:revert-rule}} the revert-rule declaration is still lost after merging, and the new may_revert_rule flag at mod.rs:868 and mod.rs:1168 is never consulted because the block never reaches minify_style_arm. The @ media arm at mod.rs:516-523 shows the intended shape: append the bodies and set pending_at_rule_minify.

    Verification: Pre-existing. Triggering condition: any stylesheet with two adjacent @ supports blocks whose conditions compare equal, through any bun build of CSS. Mechanism at src/css/rules/mod.rs:528-534: break 'arm skips the rules.push at line 614, and nothing appends supp.rules.v to last_rule.rules.v; self.v = rules; at line 642 then replaces the list, so the second block's rules are gone from the output.

  • 🟣 src/css/rules/mod.rs — Pre-existing, in the merge this PR gates: users of bun build --minify get .a,.b{all:initial} for .a{all:initial}.b{all:unset}, so .b silently changes meaning. merge_style_rules decides a selector merge from src.declarations.eql(&dst.declarations) at src/css/rules/mod.rs:1201, and Property::eql treats any two all declarations as equal regardless of keyword (src/css/properties/properties_generated.rs:5014 (Property::All(_), Property::All(_)) => true). Fix: compare the CSSWideKeyword payload in that arm (a == b), so all:initial, all:inherit, all:unset, all:revert and all:revert-layer only merge with the same keyword; the dedup path at mod.rs:860-873 compares property ids only and is unaffected.

    Why this was flagged

    Input .a{all:initial}.b{all:unset} through any minify caller (src/bundler/ParseTask.rs:1330, src/bundler/transpiler.rs:3101, src/css_jsc/css_internals.rs:144) on a stylesheet without revert-rule, so may_revert_rule is false and merging runs. PropertyId::All parses the keyword into Property::All(CSSWideKeyword) (properties_generated.rs:3877). In merge_style_rules the selectors differ, so it reaches src/css/rules/mod.rs:1201 and calls DeclarationBlock::eql (src/css/declaration.rs:193), which compares each pair with Property::eql; the arm at src/css/properties/properties_generated.rs:5014 returns true for any two All values without reading the keyword. Both rules are then treated as having identical declarations and .b is appended to .a's selector list (mod.rs:1222-1240), printing .a,.b{all:initial}; .b's unset is lost. The same happens on the base branch; this PR touches merge_style_rules and leaves the comparison as is. lightningcss derives PartialEq on Property::All(CSSWideKeyword) and does not merge these.

    Verification: Pre-existing: the base produces the same wrong output; the PR's may_revert_rule early-return leaves the comparison untouched. Trigger: .a{all:initial}.b{all:unset} minified without revert-rule. src/css/properties/properties_generated.rs:5014 (Property::All(_), Property::All(_)) => true ignores the keyword, so src/css/rules/mod.rs:1201 merges the rules, discarding .b's all:unset.

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Thanks for the review. The diff does not change. The four inline threads have replies. On the two findings outside the diff:

Jarred-Sumner added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 27, 2026
### 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.
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Landed in #47025 (7942008).

Do not merge style rules in a stylesheet that holds revert-rule. 1 real stylesheets

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Confirmed on a debug build of main 7942008.

Two leftovers from the notes of this PR are still on main, and no open PR has them:

  • For a target without logical properties, the keyword goes to generated :lang() rules, where it rolls back nothing. .a{left:5px}.a{inset:0;inset-inline-start:revert-rule} loses the rollback to left:5px at the default browser targets. --target=bun prints it as written.
  • A keyword that the stylesheet text does not show does not set the flag: .a{top:1px}.a{top:--f()} and .a{top:1px}.a{top:attr(data-c type(*))} still merge.

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