What is the difference between hover:prose-a:underline and prose-a:hover:underline?

[isaacfink]

I can see the generated css is different, the hover is applied to the parent in the second example (prose-a:hover:underline) wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? in my mind prose-a:hover means hover on prose-a (which is the a tag)

[isaacfink]

The second way feels more similar to CSS

[adamwathan]

Hey! This is explained in the docs here:

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/hover-focus-and-other-states#ordering-stacked-modifiers

Agree it's sort of unintuitive right now, might revisit it for Tailwind 4 but would be a pretty rough breaking change too so will have to weight it.

[isaacfink]

@adamwathan I am trying to do some more open source so I wanna take a stab at this, is it part of tailwind or the plugin?