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afioriyesterday at 9:39 PM1 replyview on HN

Without a lot of discipline it is very easy to end up with a css with lots of unclear and hard to guess effects. Eg consider the case of <A type=1><B><A type=2></A></B></A> where A and B are complex templates. Any selector with the " " operator on A risk expanding to the inner A even if it was intended only for the outer. Similarly a :has selector might catch a descendant of the wrong element.

@scope fixes a lot of this, but it is a complex problem. With tailwind you mostly have to worry about inheritance


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robertoandredyesterday at 10:08 PM

This problem was solved a long time ago with CSS Modules.

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