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Kevin Powell - Community•17mo ago•
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How to achieve BEM / CSS Module type scoping with @scope

I'm trying to wrap my head around how @scope works and specifically how to implement parent/child scoping like in BEM or CSS Modules, where you can write styles that apply to a component that won't bleed into any child components. I thought that's what to was for, but it seems like it doesn't always do what I'd hoped.

This works as expected. "Outer Text" is red. "Inner Text" is black.

  <style>
  @scope (.outer) to (.child) {
    .text {
      color: red;
    }
  }
  </style>
  
  <div class="outer">
    <div class="text">Outer Text</div>

    <div class="child">
      <div class="text">Inner Text</div>
    </div>
  </div>


But this doesn't do what I'd expect. Both "Outer Text 2" and "Inner Text 2" are purple.
  <style>
  @scope (.outer-2) to (.inner-2) {
    :scope {
      color: purple;
    }
  }
  </style>
  
  <div class="outer-2">
    Outer Text 2

    <div class="inner-2">Inner Text 2</div>
  </div>


Am I missing something here? According to the spec it seems like :scope should not include .inner-2?
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-cascade-6/#example-f310c4e4
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