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Fixes #40361

Problem

  • Bun.build always compiles CSS for the built-in default browser targets (Edge 80, Firefox 78, Chrome 80, Safari 14, Opera 67). Modern syntax like oklch() gets a hex + display-p3 + lab() fallback chain, with no way to opt out. On an oklch-based stylesheet the minified output is larger than the input (Bun.build has no way to set CSS browser targets, so oklch() is always downlevelled (minified output larger than input) #40361: 82 bytes in, 220 bytes out).
  • The CSS implementation already models targets (Targets and Browsers in src/css/targets.rs), but nothing user-facing sets them. Every call site uses Targets::for_bundler_target(target), which is hardcoded.

Fix

  • Add cssTarget?: string | string[] to Bun.build and --css-target to bun build. Entries are esbuild-style target strings ("chrome100", "safari16.4", "es2020", "esnext"), the same shape as Vite's build.cssTarget.
  • Browsers::convert_from_string is already a port of Vite's target conversion. Parsing reuses it, refactored into a per-entry Browsers::merge_esbuild_target that rejects unknown strings and malformed versions. An invalid entry throws at config parse time, before any build work.
  • The parsed Browsers flows from the config into BundleOptions and LinkerOptions, and Targets::for_bundler(target, css_target) replaces the hardcoded default at all six CSS printer and minifier call sites. for_bundler_target is now private, so a future call site cannot bypass a user cssTarget. An override with no browser entries (for example only "esnext") disables downleveling entirely. A present but empty value ("", [], a blank --css-target) is an error.
  • Verified: test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts ("cssTarget", 17 tests) and test/bundler/cli.test.ts ("--css-target", 5 tests). Also the full bun-build-api, cli, bundler/css, js/bun/css, and bun-types suites.

Background

  • CSS downleveling: Bun's CSS bundler (a port of Lightning CSS) rewrites modern syntax (nesting, oklch(), color(), logical properties) into equivalents the target browsers support, and adds fallback declarations where needed.
  • Targets holds an optional Browsers struct (one minimum version per browser). browsers: None means "compile nothing down". Each CSS feature checks is_compatible(browsers) against caniuse-derived minimum versions.
  • Until now the bundler derived Targets only from the runtime target: browser used a fixed default list, bun and node used no browser targets.
  • The docs (docs/bundler/index.mdx, docs/bundler/css.mdx) and packages/bun-types are updated in this PR.
Notes
  • The issue's repro now produces 71 bytes with cssTarget: ["chrome120", "safari17", "firefox120"], matching Lightning CSS's 70-byte output plus a trailing newline. Without the option, output is unchanged (220 bytes).
  • Valid entries follow esbuild's target grammar: a browser name plus a major[.minor[.patch]] version (chrome, edge, firefox, ie, ios, opera, safari), a non-browser runtime that is accepted and ignored (node, deno, hermes, rhino), an ES year es2015-es2023, or esnext. Unknown names, versionless browser names, and malformed versions (safari16.x, a fourth component) are rejected; Vite silently ignores or mis-parses them, but a typo in an accepted option should fail loudly.
  • Lowest version wins when a browser repeats across entries, matching the existing conversion.
  • The old port of the conversion errored on a literal "esnext" (it parsed "next" as a year) and parsed a malformed minor version as .0. The only caller passed a fixed valid list, so both were unreachable. The per-entry refactor handles "esnext" first and parses each version component strictly.
  • --css-target is repeatable and also splits on commas (--css-target chrome120,safari17), matching esbuild's --target syntax.
  • browserslist support (reading package.json or .browserslistrc) would need a browserslist query engine and caniuse data, which Bun does not ship. The option shape chosen here does not preclude adding it later.
  • Explicit cssTarget wins over the target-derived default for every runtime target, including bun and node (covered by a test).
  • bun build --no-bundle minified CSS with no targets at all, so color fallbacks never reflected the targets the printer used. Both passes now share for_bundler(target, css_target). This overlaps with bun build --no-bundle: minify css with the build target's browser targets #38544, which fixes the same call for the default targets; once this lands, bun build --no-bundle: minify css with the build target's browser targets #38544 reduces to its tests.
  • Suites run: bun-build-api.test.ts, cli.test.ts (45 pass), test/bundler/css/ (169 pass), test/js/bun/css/ css/color/css-loader (2205 pass), test/integration/bun-types/bun-types.test.ts (17 pass), internal source-lints (162 pass).

no test proof · iteration 3 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bundler/cli.test.ts, test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts

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Changes

Bun now supports CSS browser targets through Bun.build({ cssTarget }) and --css-target. Targets are parsed, propagated through bundling, and applied to CSS output. Documentation and tests cover browser versions, ES targets, precedence, fallbacks, and invalid values.

CSS target configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
CSS target parsing and selection
src/css/targets.rs, src/options_types/Cargo.toml
Adds CSS target parsing, validation, browser version merging, ES aliases, runtime-target handling, and bundler target construction.
API and CLI configuration wiring
src/runtime/api/..., src/runtime/cli/..., src/options_types/context.rs, src/bundler/options.rs, src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs, src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs
Accepts cssTarget and --css-target, stores parsed targets, and propagates them through bundler and linker options.
CSS target application
src/bundler/ParseTask.rs, src/bundler/transpiler.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/...
Uses combined bundler and CSS targets for CSS minification, printing, and import-condition handling.
Public contract, documentation, and validation
packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts, docs/bundler/..., test/bundler/...
Documents cssTarget, updates BuildConfig, and tests browser targets, ES targets, version handling, precedence, output, and invalid inputs.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding the cssTarget option to Bun.build for CSS browser targeting.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #40361 requires a user-facing CSS target configuration for Bun.build and preservation of modern CSS for compatible targets. Config stores css_target, and the implementation parses browser …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain related to issue #40361. The CLI option, public type definition, documentation, parser, bundler propagation, minification integration, and tests implement the same CSS target config…
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs — the two earlier nits (stdout drain in the CLI error test, and the docs Reference block) have both been addressed. Because this adds new user-facing API surface (cssTarget on Bun.build and --css-target on the CLI), a human look at the option shape and accepted grammar would still be worthwhile.

Checked: the convert_from_string → merge_esbuild_target refactor is behavior-preserving for the existing BROWSER_DEFAULT caller; the tightened error paths (unknown browser name, versionless entry, unparseable major) are only reachable from the new user-facing inputs. Browsers is Copy, so threading Option<Browsers> through BundleOptions/LinkerOptions needs no clone/lifetime handling. The esnext-only case correctly maps to browsers: None via the != Browsers::default() check.

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Overview

Adds cssTarget?: string | string[] to Bun.build and --css-target to bun build, letting users override the hardcoded CSS browser targets so modern syntax like oklch() isn't force-downleveled. Touches 20 files: option plumbing through BundlerOptions/BundleOptions/LinkerOptions/JSBundler Config, a refactor of Browsers::convert_from_string into a per-entry merge_esbuild_target, a new Targets::for_bundler helper replacing for_bundler_target at all six CSS printer/minifier call sites, plus docs, .d.ts, CLI help, and 9 new tests.

Security risks

None identified. Input is a build-config option parsed once at config time; invalid entries throw before any build work. No filesystem paths, no network, no untrusted-length arithmetic. The parsed Browsers is a small Copy struct of Option<u32> version fields.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high: this is new public API surface. The repo's review guidance flags API design (option name, accepted grammar, error-vs-ignore semantics for unknown targets) as needing maintainer sign-off. The implementation itself is straightforward — the CSS target machinery already existed and this just wires a user override into it — but the user-visible contract (esbuild-style target strings, esnext disables downleveling, unknown names error rather than being ignored like Vite) is a design choice.

Other factors

  • All prior automated feedback (my two nits and the comment-cop bot's length warnings) has been addressed and resolved.
  • Test coverage is solid: 7 Bun.build tests (default behavior, modern targets, single string, esnext, old targets, invalid string, non-string type) plus 2 CLI tests, using describe.concurrent. The PR description reports the full CSS suites and bun-types integration test pass.
  • The merge_esbuild_target refactor tightens three previously-silent paths (unknown browser name, no digit in entry, unparseable major version) into errors. I traced the sole pre-existing caller (BROWSER_DEFAULT, a fixed literal list) and confirmed none of its entries hit the tightened paths, so no existing behavior changes.
  • deno was added to the NoMapping set alongside the existing node/hermes/rhino; consistent with esbuild's target grammar.
  • The new bun_css workspace dependency on bun_options_types looks like a reasonable layering (options types already depend on bun_ast).

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I reviewed this PR again after the three follow-up commits (30956b6, 1b34741, 1b9b3a2) — all prior inline findings are addressed and this pass found no new issues. Because this adds new user-facing API surface (cssTarget on Bun.build and --css-target on the CLI), a maintainer sign-off on the API shape would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • merge_esbuild_target refactor: version parsing now u8 per component, rejects >255, 4th component, non-numeric parts, unknown browser names; esnext handled before the es-prefix year parse.
  • Option plumbing: css_target threads through Config → BundleOptions → LinkerOptions and reaches all six Targets::for_bundler call sites; for_bundler_target made private so new call sites can't bypass it.
  • JS-side parsing in JSBundler.rs: string/array validation, to_slice borrows dropped before next iteration, error messages echo the bad entry.
  • Tests cover the variant matrix (string vs array, esnext, ES year, minor/patch versions, lowest-wins, target:bun override, rejection cases) and CLI comma-split + repeat.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR adds a cssTarget?: string | string[] option to Bun.build and a --css-target flag to bun build, letting users specify which browser versions CSS should be downleveled for (fixing #40361 where oklch() was always expanded to fallbacks). It touches 20 files: the CSS target parser (src/css/targets.rs, refactored from a batch function into a per-entry merge_esbuild_target), option plumbing across BundleOptions/LinkerOptions/BundlerOptions/Config, six call sites switched from for_bundler_target to for_bundler, JS-side option parsing in JSBundler.rs, CLI arg parsing in Arguments.rs, docs (bundler/index.mdx, bundler/css.mdx), types (bun.d.ts), and 17 new tests.

Security risks

None identified. The new option accepts a small validated set of strings (browser names, ES years, esnext); unknown or malformed values are rejected at config-parse time before any build work. Version components now parse as u8 so out-of-range values can't spill across the packed encoding's byte boundaries. No file I/O, network, or shell execution is driven by the new input.

Level of scrutiny

This is a new public API addition, which per the repo's review guidance ("API design — adding or changing user-facing API surface") is a category where a maintainer should weigh in on the shape. The design choices here — option name matching Vite's build.cssTarget, esbuild-style target strings, "esnext disables downleveling entirely", accepting-and-ignoring node/deno/hermes/rhino, deferring browserslist support — are all reasonable and well-documented in the PR description, but they're the kind of once-shipped-hard-to-change decisions a human should confirm.

Other factors

The implementation itself is clean and well-tested. Three prior review rounds surfaced minor issues (undrained stdout in a CLI test, missing docs Reference block entry, u16→u8 component overflow) and all were fixed. Test coverage is thorough: 15 API tests + 3 CLI tests covering the happy path, edge cases (minor version boundaries, three-component versions, lowest-wins merging), and rejection paths. The for_bundler_target visibility change to private is a nice guardrail. The bun_css workspace dep added to bun_options_types looks correct (Cargo.lock updated). Default behavior is unchanged when the option is omitted.

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In `@packages/bun-types/bun.d.ts`:
- Around line 3202-3227: Update the cssTarget documentation to explicitly state
that supported ECMAScript year targets range from es2015 through es2023, while
retaining the existing esnext option and browser-target descriptions.

In `@src/css/targets.rs`:
- Around line 113-124: Update Targets::for_bundler to accept user_browsers by
reference and copy the referenced Browsers value when constructing the result.
Adjust its callers in the transpiler, prepareCssAstsForChunk, and
generateCompileResultForCssChunk flows to pass css_target.as_ref().

Apply the same fix in `@src/css/targets.rs` around lines 405 - 422: Covers the
manual loop-counter clippy failure and its required bound-check ordering.

In `@src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs`:
- Around line 2085-2104: Update the --css-target parsing loop around
strings::split and merge_esbuild_target to trim surrounding whitespace from each
comma-separated entry before skipping empty values and validating targets.
Preserve the existing invalid-target error and browser merge behavior after
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CI status: the bundler and CSS suites, including the new cssTarget tests, pass on every lane. The remaining failures are unrelated: the require-cache ASAN timeout is pre-existing on main and reported separately, and the rest are install, napi, and streams flakes that passed on retry. The diff is ready for review.

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Thanks — all three of my earlier points are addressed (stdout is now drained in the invalid-target CLI test, cssTarget is in the docs Reference BuildConfig, and version components parse as u8 with a test for "safari15.300"). I re-read the updated diff and didn't find further issues. Since this introduces new user-facing API surface (cssTarget on Bun.build and --css-target on bun build), a maintainer sign-off on the option shape is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • merge_esbuild_target refactor in src/css/targets.rs — esnext handled first, unknown names / versionless / >3 components / >255 rejected, lowest-wins merge preserved.
  • Targets::for_bundler override semantics — empty Browsers (only esnext/node) yields browsers: None, so downleveling is fully disabled; for_bundler_target is now private so no call site can bypass the user override.
  • Option threading through JSBundler config, CLI Arguments.rs, BundleOptions/LinkerOptions, and all six CSS printer/minifier call sites — each reads css_target.as_ref().
  • Tests cover string vs array, ES-year, minor/patch, >255 rejection, unknown/non-string rejection, target: "bun" interaction, and CLI comma-split + repeat + invalid.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR adds a cssTarget option to Bun.build() and a --css-target CLI flag, letting users control which browser versions CSS is compiled for. The core change refactors Browsers::convert_from_string in src/css/targets.rs into a per-entry merge_esbuild_target (now stricter: rejects unknown names, versionless entries, malformed versions, >3 components, and components >255), adds Targets::for_bundler(target, Option<&Browsers>) as the sole public entry point (making for_bundler_target private), and threads a new css_target: Option<bun_css::Browsers> field through BundlerOptions → BundleOptions → LinkerOptions and into every CSS minify/print call site (ParseTask, transpiler, prepareCssAstsForChunk, generateCompileResultForCssChunk). Docs, .d.ts types, and 18 new tests round it out. ~530 lines across 20 files.

Security risks

None identified. The new input surface is a build-config option parsed before any build work; invalid input throws (JS API) or exits 1 (CLI) with a clear message. Version parsing uses strings::parse_int::<u8> per component so the packed 24-bit encoding cannot overflow or spill between bytes. No file I/O, network, or path handling is involved; the option only influences which CSS transforms run.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high. The implementation itself is mechanical option-threading plus a well-scoped parser refactor, and test coverage is thorough (default vs override, string vs array, ES-year, minor/patch boundary at safari15.4, three-component version, >255 rejection, malformed version, unknown target, non-string type, target: "bun" interaction, CLI comma-split + repeated flag lowest-wins + invalid). However, this is new user-facing API surface on Bun.build and bun build — the option name, accepted grammar (esbuild-style targets, es2015–es2023, esnext), and the "override fully replaces defaults" semantics are design decisions a maintainer should sign off on before they become part of the public contract.

Other factors

Since my previous review, eight commits landed that addressed all three of my inline comments: the invalid-target CLI test now drains stdout alongside stderr and asserts on it; the docs Reference interface BuildConfig now lists cssTarget; and version components are parsed as u8 (with a dedicated test for "safari15.300"). The three CodeRabbit threads on the latest push were resolved by a non-author. No CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews are outstanding. The bun_css workspace dep added to options_types is internal. Given the clean state and the API-design nature of the change, deferring for maintainer sign-off (rather than approving) is the right call.

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can't wait for this to be merged

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Thanks. The change is complete and CI is green on everything it touches. It now waits on maintainer review.

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@alii Would it be possible to look as this ? this seems a fairly obvious one to me, that solves multiple issues. I know reviewing is the bottleneck in these agentic days, but still, one month seems like a long time for something that seems solved

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this on my wishlist for 1.4.3 do you think it will happen ? :)

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I cannot speak to release timing. The PR is complete, rebased on main, and green on everything it touches. Whether it lands in 1.4.3 is a maintainer decision.

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@alii any hope to get this looked at?

Adds a cssTarget option to Bun.build and a --css-target flag to bun
build. Entries are esbuild-style target strings (chrome100, safari16.4,
es2020, esnext). When set, the CSS bundler compiles for those browsers
instead of the built-in defaults, so syntax the targets support (oklch,
nesting, logical properties) is emitted as written. An override with no
browser entries disables CSS downleveling. bun build --no-bundle now
uses the same targets for its minify pass as for its printer.
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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Outdated. #46787 changed shape after this note. See the correction: #40368 (comment)


A note on merge order. A cssTarget that has :is() but lacks another selector feature makes the :is() wrap in minify_style_arm reachable from Bun.build, and the check in front of that wrap is wrong for two kinds of lists. With the targets of the example in this PR (chrome 120, safari 17, firefox 120), the minifier on main prints:

  • x-el::part(a), y-el z-el:has(q-el) { color: red } as :is(x-el::part(a),y-el z-el:has(q-el)){color:red}. A pseudo-element inside :is() matches nothing.
  • .a, .b:has(.x) { color: red } as :is(.a,.b:has(.x)){color:red}. .a then weighs (0,2,0).

I ran both through cssInternals.minifyTest with those targets, not through the new option. #46787 corrects the check, so it should merge before this PR.

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Update, 2026-10-27. The changes of #46787 and #43240 are on main since 7942008 (#47025). Both PRs are closed because they landed there. So no merge order is left to keep. With the targets of the example here, a build of 7942008 prints one rule per selector for both lists below.


Correction to my note of 2026-10-24 above. #46787 no longer corrects the check in front of the :is() wrap. It now removes the wrap: a selector list with a selector that a target cannot parse is always split, as at today's default targets. The reasons and the numbers are in #46787.

What this means for this PR:

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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Numbers from a real site, measured today on a canary that includes #47025, in case they help decide this one.

The site is aadhar.sh, which authors its colors in oklch() and ships to current browsers only. Seven stylesheets, minified, sizes after brotli q11:

bytes vs Lightning CSS, no targets
Bun.build({ minify: true }), bun 1.4.4-canary.20261028.1 (11c3671) 19,573 +25.3%
Lightning CSS 1.33.0, no targets 15,625 0
Lightning CSS 1.33.0 at Vite 8's baseline (chrome 111, edge 111, firefox 114, safari 16.4) 15,635 +0.06%
Lightning CSS 1.33.0 at bun's current defaults (chrome 80, edge 80, firefox 78, safari 14, opera 67) 20,912 +33.8%

The biggest file, a 100 KB design-system sheet, goes from 9,857 B to 12,540 B under bun. Bun gives 137 of its oklch() values a hex, color(display-p3) and lab() fallback chain. Color fallbacks alone cover the growth: Lightning CSS lowering only colors at bun's defaults adds 3,507 B to that file, more than bun's whole 2,683 B.

Two things stand out:

That's why the option matters even if the defaults never move: a site that writes modern color syntax on purpose has no way to stop the lowering today. browserslist in package.json changes nothing, and --target picks the runtime.

Method: each stylesheet's readable source went through Bun.build({ entrypoints: [file], minify: true, target: "browser" }) and through Lightning CSS's transform({ minify: true, targets }) with the same input. Lightning CSS also resolved the site's @custom-media definitions, as the site's own build does. Each output was brotli-compressed at quality 11 on its own, and the table sums the seven.

…Target

esbuild lowercases target names before matching, and its target string
may list several targets separated by commas. Both entry points now
accept the same spellings.
Comment thread src/css/targets.rs
Comment on lines +227 to +232
/// Parse one esbuild-style target string (`"chrome87"`, `"safari16.4"`,
/// `"es2020"`, `"esnext"`) and merge it into `self`, keeping the lowest
/// version per browser. Targets with no CSS mapping (`"node20"`,
/// `"deno1.40"`, `"hermes0.12"`, `"rhino1.7"`) are accepted and ignored.
/// Names match case-insensitively, as in esbuild. Any other string is an
/// error.

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If you need a paragraph-long comment to justify why the workaround is OK, the code is wrong — fix the code

Comment on lines +956 to +957
// One string can hold several comma-separated targets, like
// the `--css-target` flag and esbuild's `target`.

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If you need a paragraph-long comment to justify why the workaround is OK, the code is wrong — fix the code

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Comment thread src/css/targets.rs
Comment on lines +398 to +400
b"opera" => Browser::Opera,
b"rhino" => Browser::NoMapping,
b"safari" => Browser::Safari,

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🟡 nit (optional): users who mistype the version of an ignored runtime name, such as --css-target node1x or cssTarget: "deno1.2.3.4", get it silently accepted, while the same typo on a browser name is rejected. At src/css/targets.rs:398-400 a Browser::NoMapping hit does continue before the major[.minor[.patch]] loop runs, so nothing after the first digit is checked. Fix: run the version component parse (and the three-component limit) for every recognised name before deciding whether to skip it, so node, deno, hermes and rhino entries get the same "Invalid cssTarget"/"Invalid --css-target" rejection as browser names.

Why this was flagged

A user passes cssTarget: "node1.2.3.4" to Bun.build (src/runtime/api/JSBundler.rs:965) or --css-target node1x to bun build (src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs:2178). In merge_esbuild_target the first digit is found at src/css/targets.rs:362, the name node maps to Browser::NoMapping in the map at src/css/targets.rs:378-392, and src/css/targets.rs:398-400 returns to the loop with continue before the version parse at src/css/targets.rs:405-418 runs. The malformed version is never inspected, so the build proceeds with the entry treated as valid. The same text with a browser name (chrome1x, chrome1.2.3.4) is rejected by the parse_int::<u8> call at src/css/targets.rs:413 or the i == 3 check at src/css/targets.rs:409, and the PR states that malformed versions are rejected. On the base branch the option does not exist, so no comparison applies; the inconsistency is within what this diff adds. No test covers an ignored runtime name with a malformed version.

Verification: nit — triggered whenever a user passes an ignored runtime name with a malformed version (node1x, deno1.2.3.4) via cssTarget or --css-target. In src/css/targets.rs lines 407-409 if browser == Browser::NoMapping { continue; } return to the loop before the major[.minor[.patch]] parse at lines 414-429 runs. So node1x is accepted while chrome1x returns UnsupportedCSSTarget.

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Bun.build has no way to set CSS browser targets, so oklch() is always downlevelled (minified output larger than input)

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