CSS @scope
Keep selector conflicts to a minimum
The new @scope
rule is here! It’s a better way to keep our component styles contained – without relying on third-party tools or extreme naming conventions.
Chris Coyier interviews Miriam when she joins the CSS-Tricks team as a Staff Writer. We talk about getting started in the industry, name confusion, founding OddBird, building Susy, and more.
Now CSS is becoming an extensible language, with programmatic power. I’m excited to see how that plays out.
—Miriam
Keep selector conflicts to a minimum
The new @scope
rule is here! It’s a better way to keep our component styles contained – without relying on third-party tools or extreme naming conventions.
A new proposal for importing from NPM packages in Sass
UI libraries like Vuetify and Bootstrap make it easy to extend their themes by providing Sass source files with their NPM packages. Now, Sass is requesting feedback on a simpler way to import those libraries into your Sass styles with e.g. @use "pkg:bootstrap"
.
Giving us control over the cascade
Don’t let specificity force you into strict selector conventions. Cascade Layers allow us to manage specificity without resorting to naming hacks or the !important
flag.