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Problem

• For targets with :is() that cannot parse one selector of a list, the CSS minifier can print :is(list). :is(x-el::part(a),y-el z-el:has(q-el)) never matches the part, and :is(.a,.b:has(.x)) raises .a to (0,2,0).
• Cause, in minify_style_arm (src/css/rules/mod.rs:675): the wrap check misses ::part()/::slotted() and weighs :has() as 0.
• Default targets lack :is(), so no release wraps. Bun.build: add cssTarget option to set CSS browser targets #40368 and css: bump the default browser targets to Vite's baseline widely available set #40369 change that. Merge this first (order in Notes).

Fix

• Remove the wrap. Each selector that a target cannot parse gets its own rule, as at the default targets today.
• StyleRule::split_rule_count is computed once. The nested-rule budget charges the rules that print, so @nest passes 1.
• Verified: test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts (24 new cases, 21 fail on main), test/js/bun/css/, test/bundler/css/.
• Self-reviewed: 26 concerns raised, 23 addressed. Not done: an is_compatible fix, tracking issues, tests in Bun.build: add cssTarget option to set CSS browser targets #40368/css: bump the default browser targets to Vite's baseline widely available set #40369.

Background

• A browser drops a rule if it cannot parse one selector. lightningcss, the origin of this code, splits the rule or prints a forgiving :is(list).
• Considered a guarded wrap (commits 546d75a, 5e07d79): +356 lines for 40 of 12,700 corpus lists. This removes 43.

Downsides

• Lists that main wraps are split: +0.13% raw, +0.005% gzip on 490 stylesheets at the css: bump the default browser targets to Vite's baseline widely available set #40369 targets. Release output is unchanged.
• Those lists get the split's defects (Notes): a nested & means one selector, and is_compatible mistakes are no longer hidden.
• The split copies declarations per selector. .a:has(i), .b:has(i) nested 15 deep with 100 declarations prints 66,846,720 B, not 821,065 B.

Notes

Repro (release build of main, and lightningcss 1.33.0 prints the same):

BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_INTERNAL_FOR_TESTING=1 bun -e '
const { minifyTest } = require("bun:internal-for-testing").cssInternals;
const t = { chrome: 100 << 16 };
for (const s of ["x-el::part(a), y-el z-el:has(q-el) {color:red}", "::slotted(.x), i.c:has(.q) {color:red}", ".a, .b:has(.x) {color:red}", ".a:has(.x), .a:has(#y) {color:red}", ".p { &:has(.x), &:has(#y) {color:red} }", "a:has(.x), b:has(.x) {color:red}"])
  console.log(minifyTest(s, "", t));'

input	main	this PR
x-el::part(a), y-el z-el:has(q-el) {color:red}	:is(x-el::part(a),y-el z-el:has(q-el)){color:red}	x-el::part(a){color:red}y-el z-el:has(q-el){color:red}
::slotted(.x), i.c:has(.q) {color:red}	:is(::slotted(.x),i.c:has(.q)){color:red}	::slotted(.x){color:red}i.c:has(.q){color:red}
.a, .b:has(.x) {color:red}	:is(.a,.b:has(.x)){color:red}	.a{color:red}.b:has(.x){color:red}
.a:has(.x), .a:has(#y) {color:red}	:is(.a:has(.x),.a:has(#y)){color:red}	.a:has(.x){color:red}.a:has(#y){color:red}
.p { &:has(.x), &:has(#y) {color:red} }	:is(.p:has(.x),.p:has(#y)){color:red}	.p:has(.x){color:red}.p:has(#y){color:red}
a:has(.x), b:has(.x) {color:red}	:is(a:has(.x),b:has(.x)){color:red}	a:has(.x){color:red}b:has(.x){color:red}

The task that started this work asked to keep the wrap for a:has(.x), b:has(.x). This PR does not. The section "Why the wrap is removed" says why.

Browser check (Chrome 153, headless). #h::part(a) colors the part, and :is(#h::part(a), ...) does not. ::slotted(.x) colors the slotted element, and :is(::slotted(.x), ...) does not. With a later .a.k { color: green }, the list .a:has(.x), .a:has(#y) leaves the element green, and :is(.a:has(.x), .a:has(#y)) turns it red.

Spec. Selectors 4: "Pseudo-elements cannot be represented by the matches-any pseudo-class; they are not valid within :is()." and "The specificity of an :is(), :not(), or :has() pseudo-class is replaced by the specificity of the most specific complex selector in its selector list argument."

Upstream. lightningcss has the same wrap and the same two defects. The open reports are parcel-bundler/lightningcss#1324 (specificity) and parcel-bundler/lightningcss#1032 (a pseudo-element inside the wrap). Removing the wrap is a deliberate difference from lightningcss. No Bun issue reports the wrap, because no release prints it. #40364 reports the opposite cost, the split at the default targets.

Why the wrap is removed, and not guarded. The first two commits of this branch (546d75a, 5e07d79) keep the wrap and refuse it for every case where :is(list) is not the list. Two rounds of review kept finding more such cases. The ones I confirmed:

• A pseudo-element inside :is() matches nothing (spec, Chrome 153).
• Every selector takes the weight of the most specific one (spec, Chrome 153). :has() counts for that, and & counts the parent list, which the parser does not know.
• WebKit SelectorChecker.cpp: "Inside functional pseudo class except for :not, :visited never matches." Safari was not run.
• A shadow host that is the subject of one of several :is() arguments does not match in Chromium 92 to 123 and in Gecko 115 and 128 (headless runs). It matches in Chromium 126 and Gecko 140.
• A vendor prefix pass prints the :is() as :-webkit-any(), which weighs differently (Chrome 153: .a:-webkit-any(#x) is (0,2,0), .a:is(#x) is (1,1,0)).
• With nesting compiled away the printer writes the parent selector in place of &, so a parent such as x-el::part(input) or a:visited ends inside the :is() of a nested list.
• In @scope, each selector of a list is relative to the scoping root. An :is() argument is not.
• Firefox 78 to 83 and WebKit 610 (Safari 14.0) have :is() without forgiving parsing, so one argument that they cannot parse drops the whole :is(). Gecko turns the pref layout.css.is-and-where-better-error-recovery.enabled on in tag FIREFOX_84_0_RELEASE. WebKit gains consumeComplexForgivingSelectorList between tags Safari-610.4.3.1.7 and Safari-611.1.21.161.3.

The guarded version needed a table of browser behavior with no browser in CI, and a parameter through six minify functions. What it kept was small. At the #40369 targets main wraps 143 lists of the corpus, and the guarded version still wrapped 40. Against this PR it saves 4,203 B of 10.75 MB raw, and its output is 101 B larger after gzip.

What the split does to a list that main wrapped. The split is the path that every release takes at the default targets. It is exact for the declarations of the rule itself. It has defects of its own, and with this PR the lists that main wrapped get them. Each line is reproduced.

• A nested & means one selector and not the list. At chrome 100, .a:has(.x), .b:has(.y) { & + & {...} } prints .a:has(.x)+.a:has(.x){...}.b:has(.y)+.b:has(.y){...}, which loses the pairs across the two selectors. A nested .c:not(&) prints .c:not(.a:has(.x)){...}.c:not(.b:has(.y)){...}, which matches more. Main prints :is(.a:has(.x),.b:has(.y))+:is(.a:has(.x),.b:has(.y)) and .c:not(:is(.a:has(.x),.b:has(.y))) there.
• The nested rules of one split rule print before the declarations of the next split rule. At chrome 100, .a:has(.x), .b:has(.y) { color: red; & > * { color: blue } } prints .a:has(.x){color:red}.a:has(.x)>*{color:#00f}.b:has(.y){color:red}.b:has(.y)>*{color:#00f}. An element that matches .a:has(.x)>* and .b:has(.y) is then red. Main prints one :is() rule and then the nested rule there, which gives blue, as the source does.
• A split rule prints its nested rules before its own @supports fallback. At the css: bump the default browser targets to Vite's baseline widely available set #40369 targets, .a:has(.x), .b { color: var(--c, color(display-p3 1 0 0)); @media (min-width: 600px) { color: black } } prints the @media rule of .a:has(.x) before its @supports rule. Main printed the rule, then @supports, then @media. css: keep declarations written after a nested rule in place with a nested declarations rule #45462 works on that order.
• is_compatible accepts some selectors that a target cannot parse, and main's forgiving :is(list) hid that. At the css: bump the default browser targets to Vite's baseline widely available set #40369 targets .k, :host(:has(.x)), .b:has(.y) prints .k,:host(:has(.x)){...}.b:has(.y){...}, and Firefox 114 has no :has(). At chrome 100 .k, :is(.a:has(.x)), .b:has(.y) prints .k,.a:has(.x){...}.b:has(.y){...}, because the printer unwraps an :is() of one argument. Main prints one :is() rule for both. The fix is a check of the argument in the :is(), :host(), ::slotted() and ::cue() arms of is_compatible. It changes release output (.k{color:red} :host(:focus-visible){color:red} prints .k,:host(:focus-visible){color:red} at the default targets today), so it needs a PR of its own. The closing comment of css: keep incompatible selectors that fail the same way in one rule #40464 planned that PR. No open PR has it.
• The split copies the declarations and the nested rules once per selector. The limit counts selectors, not bytes. .a:has(i), .b:has(i) nested 15 deep with 100 custom properties (2,465 B) prints 821,065 B on main and 66,846,720 B with this PR at the css: bump the default browser targets to Vite's baseline widely available set #40369 targets (40 MB and 1,613 MB peak RSS). Main prints the same 66,846,720 B at the default targets today.
• The loop that moves the selectors out is quadratic. One rule with 40,000 selectors .aN:has(.x) at chrome 100 takes 35 ms on main and 2.8 s with this PR. Main takes 2.7 s for it at the default targets. css: split target-incompatible selectors out of a rule in linear time #42243 makes that loop linear.

Measurements. Release builds of main 179664e with and without this change (head 5105baf).

what	main	PR	how
.text	107,582,646 B	107,581,110 B (-1,536)	size
minify_style_arm	7,468 B	7,212 B	nm -S
minify_nested_rules	1,267 B	903 B	nm -S
selector::is_compatible calls, 10,000 rules .aN,.bN{.c{color:red}} at the default targets	20,000	10,000	gdb breakpoint hit count
instructions in the address span of all bun_css functions, per rule .aN .b:hover{color:red}, no targets	10,823	10,827	qemu-x86_64 -one-insn-per-tb -d exec -dfilter, slope over 100 and 200 rules
same, default targets	11,033	11,037	same
same, per rule .aN .b:hover{.c{color:red}}, no targets	18,433	18,444	same
same, default targets	18,571	18,574	same
allocator calls, 20 minify passes of pico.css, no targets	198,957	198,957	gdb hit counts on the mimalloc entry points, second of two interleaved runs. The first run differed by one call
same, default targets	215,742	215,742	same

Corpus. 519 files: the 15 files in test/js/bun/css/files and 504 files from npm packages. 29 of them fail to parse on both builds, so 490 are measured. Sizes are sums over the files. The gzip column is gzip -9 per file. The table is from release builds of 5c6d4e2 with and without commit 86b1f7e. src/css is the same on 5c6d4e2 and on 179664e, and the output of the current head is byte-identical for every row.

targets	files changed	main raw	PR raw	main gzip	PR gzip
none	0	10,550,281 B	same	1,364,163 B	same
main's default (chrome 80, edge 80, firefox 78, safari 14, opera 67)	0	14,810,073 B	same	1,513,856 B	same
#40369 (chrome 111, edge 111, firefox 114, safari 16.4, ios 16.4)	18	10,741,720 B	10,755,723 B (+14,003)	1,375,414 B	1,375,485 B (+71)
#40369 with firefox 121	13	10,702,619 B	10,707,707 B (+5,088)	1,374,011 B	1,374,016 B (+5)
chrome 120, safari 17, firefox 120	18	10,706,933 B	10,719,356 B (+12,423)	1,373,166 B	1,373,228 B (+62)
#40369 with safari 15	20	10,788,644 B	10,834,909 B (+46,265)	1,377,193 B	1,377,889 B (+696)
chrome 88, edge 88, firefox 78, safari 14	36	11,707,878 B	11,776,201 B (+68,323)	1,416,099 B	1,416,731 B (+632)

• The row chrome 120, safari 17, firefox 120 is one Firefox version short of :has() (Firefox 121).
• No file reaches the selector-expansion limit that did not reach it on main.
• daisyUI 5 at the css: bump the default browser targets to Vite's baseline widely available set #40369 targets. Main prints :is(:root,:root:has(input.theme-controller[value=light]:checked),[data-theme=light]), which gives :root and [data-theme=light] the weight of the :has() selector. This PR prints :root,[data-theme=light]{...} and one more rule for the :has() selector.

Selector-expansion limit. A split rule gets one copy of the nested rules per selector, as on main. Main avoided that for the lists it wrapped.

input, nested N deep	targets	main	PR
.a:user-valid, .b:user-valid, 15	chrome 130	575 B	1,408,986 B
same, 16 and deeper	chrome 130	613 B	limit error
same, 15	chrome 100	1,081,321 B	7,208,960 B
same, 16 and deeper	chrome 100	limit error	limit error
.a:has(i), .b:has(i) with 100 custom properties, 3	#40369	2,065 B	15,360 B
.a.b, .c.d, .e.f, .g.h, .i:user-valid, 7	chrome 130	349 B	6,984 B
same, 14 and deeper	chrome 130	699 B	limit error
@nest & .a, & .b:user-valid, 20	chrome 130	limit error	573 B

With native nesting the budget multiplies by the number of rules that a split list prints. The list in the seventh row prints two rules, one for the four selectors that chrome 130 can parse and one for .i:user-valid, so each level doubles the nested rules. Main multiplies by the number of selectors for the lists that it splits. The @nest row is the 1 that the @nest arm passes. That rule prints its list as written, and main counted a split for it. For the same reason as the first rows, one case in nested-vendor-prefix-duplication.test.ts now reaches the selector-expansion limit before the vendor-prefix limit. A new case with a single selector keeps the vendor-prefix limit asserted at chrome 130.

Merge order.

• Before Bun.build: add cssTarget option to set CSS browser targets #40368 and css: bump the default browser targets to Vite's baseline widely available set #40369: this PR, the is_compatible fix described above, and css: keep the selectors on rules added for color fallbacks and logical properties #43240. css: keep the selectors on rules added for color fallbacks and logical properties #43240 stops a rule that is split completely from printing @supports (...){{...}} with an empty selector. Main prints that today at the default targets for .a:has(.x), .b:has(.y) { box-shadow: var(--w) 12px lab(40% 56.6 39) }. css: split target-incompatible selectors out of a rule in linear time #42243 should also be in before them, for the loop above.
• css: bump the default browser targets to Vite's baseline widely available set #40369 has a case css/has-selector-list-not-duplicated that expects :is(:has(.a),:has(.c)){color:red}. With this PR it prints :has(.a){color:red}:has(.c){color:red}. If css: bump the default browser targets to Vite's baseline widely available set #40369 sets firefox 121, that list stays as written on every build, and Firefox 114 to 120 get no fallback for it.
• css: print the vendor prefix on downleveled :any-link, :read-only, :read-write, :placeholder-shown and :autofill #42131 has a case at chrome 103 that expects the wrap for .foo:placeholder-shown .bar,.foo:autofill .baz. With this PR that list prints three rules. With :is(...) written in the source of that case, main and this PR print the same two rules. I did not check css: print explicitly prefixed selectors as written in every vendor prefix pass #42106 and css: keep a selector list whole when a member is vendor prefixed #42100 for such cases.
• Neither Bun.build: add cssTarget option to set CSS browser targets #40368 nor css: bump the default browser targets to Vite's baseline widely available set #40369 has a test that fails without this PR. Each needs one, for example x-el::part(a), y-el z-el:has(q-el) and .a, .b:has(.x) with one rule per selector. They are not added yet. I asked for them in a comment on each PR.

Not in this PR. Each line is reproduced on main, at the default targets unless the line names others.

• The nesting printer writes :is(parent list) for & under a parent list, with no check of the targets or of the selectors: h1, h2::before { @media (min-width: 600px) { color: blue } } prints @media (min-width:600px){:is(h1,h2:before){color:#00f}}. css: fix nesting lowering of a & that does not lead its selector #43047, css: use :is() for a nesting parent with a pseudo-element when more follows the & #43078 and css: keep declarations written after a nested rule in place with a nested declarations rule #45462 work on that printer.
• A :not() with several arguments prints :-webkit-any() and :-moz-any() copies: x:not(a, b) prints x:not(:-webkit-any(a,b)){...}x:not(:-moz-any(a,b)){...}x:not(:is(a,b)){...}. css: stop emitting :-webkit-any() copies of :is() that outrank the original rule #42029 works on it.
• The rule that a logical property adds gets its :dir() after a pseudo-element: ::slotted(.x){border-start-start-radius:4px} prints ::slotted(.x):not(:-webkit-any(:lang(ae),...)).
• .a:fullscreen { border-start-start-radius: 1px } prints .a:full-screen:dir(ltr){...}. At { safari: 14 } main avoided that for a list of two such selectors because it wrapped the list. css: keep target-added vendor prefix passes on cloned and re-minified rules, and never print a bare :full-screen #43339 works on it.
• is_compatible rejects :dir(), which the minifier always rewrites. .a, .b, .c { inset-inline-start: 1px } prints 18 rules (4,005 B).
• is_compatible has no arm for CSS-module :local() and :global(), so a list with one of them is always split. Main wrapped such a list at targets with :is(). css: keep a selector list whole when a member is vendor prefixed #42100 and css modules: decide local vs global at parse, fixing :global() exports and & inside :global() #45487 work in that area.
• A rule with :autofill at chrome 100 prints twice with the same unprefixed selector. css: print the vendor prefix on downleveled :any-link, :read-only, :read-write, :placeholder-shown and :autofill #42131 works on the prefix of that pass.

Alternatives.

• The guarded wrap of commits 546d75a and 5e07d79 (above).
• One :is() around each selector that a target cannot parse, inside one rule (.a,:is(.b:has(.x))). It keeps the weight of each selector and copies nothing. It still puts author selectors inside :is(), so pseudo-elements, :visited, host subjects and the browsers without forgiving parsing still need a check. Not built here.
• css: keep incompatible selectors that fail the same way in one rule #40464 tried to keep selectors that fail the same way in one rule. Its author closed it because the grouping key needed one more special case in every review round.

Self-review. Three rounds. The first (32 concerns) shaped the guarded wrap. The second (41 concerns) asked to remove the wrap. The third (26 concerns) checked this rewrite, and 23 are addressed. It moved a one-argument :is() check out of this PR, because that check changes release output and is one of four arms with the same gap. Not done: that is_compatible PR, tracking issues for the split defects above (I cannot open issues), and the test cases in #40368 and #40369.

Tests.

• test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts: 24 cases with exact output. 21 fail on main. The other three are controls that print the same on main.
• test/js/bun/css/nested-selector-list-expansion.test.ts: the case "incompatible selector lists that collapse into :is() don't hit the limit when nesting is preserved" asserted main's linear output. It now asserts the split and the limit. Two new cases cover @nest and a list of which four selectors stay in one rule. All three fail on main.
• test/js/bun/css/nested-vendor-prefix-duplication.test.ts: one expectation changed and one case added, as described above. Its unchanged case "a large flat stylesheet of fanning-out rules does not trip the bound" takes 4.6 s to 5.7 s on my debug build, around its 5 s limit. It takes 160 ms on the release build.
• Also ran test/js/bun/css/ without css-fuzz.test.ts, test/bundler/css/, test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts, and the CSS cases in test/regression/issue/ on the debug build.

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Status

The change of this PR is on main since 7942008 (#47025). This PR is closed. On a build of that commit, both inputs below print one rule per selector.

Reproduced on a release build of main from before that commit. The minifier test API (cssInternals.minifyTest from bun:internal-for-testing) with the targets { chrome: 100 << 16 } printed:

input	output before 7942008
x-el::part(a), y-el z-el:has(q-el) { color: red }	:is(x-el::part(a),y-el z-el:has(q-el)){color:red}
.a:has(.x), .a:has(#y) { color: red }	:is(.a:has(.x),.a:has(#y)){color:red}

In Chrome 153 the first output does not style the part, and the second output wins over a later .a.k rule that the source list does not win over.

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Walkthrough

Style-rule minification now calculates selector split counts from target compatibility and uses them for nested-rule expansion accounting. Tests cover browser-targeted selector output and expansion limits for native and compiled nesting.

Changes

Selector-list lowering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Selector splitting and expansion accounting src/css/rules/style.rs, src/css/rules/mod.rs, src/css/selectors/parser.rs	StyleRule::split_rule_count calculates the number of rules produced by selector splitting. Nested-rule expansion accounting uses this count, while compiled nesting uses the selector count. @nest passes a split count of 1. The previous :is() wrapping path and related selector helper methods are removed.
Browser-targeted selector output test/js/bun/css/util.ts, test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts	The test helper accepts optional browser targets. Tests check when selector lists split or remain grouped across nested rules, @scope, and logical-property direction rules.
Nested selector expansion limits test/js/bun/css/nested-selector-list-expansion.test.ts, test/js/bun/css/nested-vendor-prefix-duplication.test.ts	Tests check nested expansion limits for incompatible selector lists and mixed vendor-prefix selectors. They also check output for split rules and a deeply nested @nest selector list with native nesting.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#40464: Partitions incompatible selectors by compatibility reason and vendor prefix, which is related to this PR’s selector-list splitting behavior.
• oven-sh/bun#46540: Adds the browser-target-aware minifyTest interface used by this PR’s target-specific CSS tests.

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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the blast radius of the two parser changes: the widened has_pseudo_element() has exactly one caller in src/css (the new can_wrap_in_is), and the new :has() specificity feeds only that check and SpecificityAndFlags::hash, which is consistent within a minify pass, so neither alters other minifier decisions. The in_scope_rule flag is restored before the ? on the @ scope recursion, so an error inside @ scope does not leak the flag.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewires the CSS minifier's :is()-wrap decision into StyleRule::selector_list_lowering and a new per-component can_wrap_in_is classifier, widens has_pseudo_element() to ::part/::slotted, and gives :has() Selectors-4 specificity; it touches no security-sensitive surface. Six confirmed findings are posted inline (empty-selector @ supports output under Partition, @ nest expansion budgeting, a weakened vendor-prefix test, and three classifier gaps), so a human look is already signalled; this note only records the adjacent consumers checked and ruled out.

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

[robobun]

This PR changed shape in 86b1f7e. It no longer keeps the :is() wrap behind a check. It removes the wrap, so a selector list with a selector that a target cannot parse is always split, as at the default targets today.

Each review round found more cases where :is(list) is not the list: :visited in WebKit, shadow host subjects, vendor prefix passes, parent selectors of nested rules. The guarded version needed a table of browser behavior, and at the #40369 targets it still wrapped only 40 of about 12,700 selector lists of a 490-file corpus.

The six inline findings:

• The @nest budget and the vendor-prefix limit test are changed in this commit.
• The three classifier findings no longer apply, because the classifier is gone.
• The empty-selector @supports rule also prints on main at the default targets. css: keep the selectors on rules added for color fallbacks and logical properties #43240 has the fix for it.

The title and the body are updated. The body lists what the split costs for the lists that main wrapped, and the merge order with #43240, #40368 and #40369.

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Minor · Include C::Has(_) in the max-specificity calculation. · parser.rs:501

src/css/selectors/parser.rs:501
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include C::Has(_) in the max-specificity calculation.

C::Has(_) is grouped with the no-specificity cases, so .a:has(.x) and .a:has(#y) both store only .a specificity. :has() must use the specificity of its most specific argument.

🐛 Suggested fix

-        C::Negation(_) | C::Is(_) | C::Any { .. } => {
+        C::Negation(_) | C::Is(_) | C::Any { .. } | C::Has(_) => {
...
                 C::Any { selectors, .. } => selectors,
+                C::Has(selectors) => selectors,
                 _ => unreachable!(),

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Review comment at @src/css/selectors/parser.rs at line 501:
Update the max-specificity calculation that groups C::Negation, C::Is, and
C::Any to handle C::Has by evaluating its selectors and using the most specific
argument, rather than treating it as a no-specificity case.

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- Line 501: Update the max-specificity calculation that groups C::Negation,
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• src/css/rules/mod.rs
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[robobun]

On the C::Has(_) note for src/css/selectors/parser.rs:501: the first two commits of this branch had exactly that edit, because the :is() wrap check compared the stored specificity of the selectors. The wrap is gone in 86b1f7e, and with it the only reader that could see the weight of :has().

On this head the stored specificity is read in two places: GenericSelector::eql and hash (parser.rs:1803, :1871). Both also compare or hash the components, and two selectors with equal components have equal specificity under either rule. So the edit would change no output, and no test could fail without it. I left compute_simple_selector_specificity as it is on main and in lightningcss. If a later change reads the stored specificity for the cascade, the edit belongs there together with its test.

[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that the four helpers removed from src/css/selectors/parser.rs have no remaining callers in src/, that every StyleRule::minify / minify_nested_rules call site takes the new splits_selectors argument (style.rs:379, mod.rs:597, mod.rs:672), and that the @ nest arm now passes false so the wrapped rule is no longer charged for a fan-out it never produces.

Extended reasoning...

This version removes the :is() wrap path from the CSS minifier and always partitions incompatible selector lists, threading a splits_selectors flag through StyleRule::minify and minify_nested_rules; it touches no security-sensitive surface. The inline findings (empty-selector @ supports fallback, & + & cross-parent combinations, logical-property fallback duplication) are what still need a human look.

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🔴 src/css/rules/mod.rs — Users whose selector list is fully split get an invalid @ supports block whose inner rule has no selector, the defect 5e07d79 fixed and 86b1f7e reverts. When every selector is incompatible, the partition at src/css/rules/mod.rs:679-692 empties sty.selectors, yet mod.rs:761 still builds the @ supports fallback rules from sty and mod.rs:867 pushes them unminified. Fix: build supps and logical only when sty.selectors.v is non-empty, since the clones at mod.rs:787-788 already get their own copies, and restore the deleted lab() test. The base emits the same block at the default bun build targets, which lack :is(), so only the guard stops it.

  Why this was flagged

  Input .a:has(.x), .b:has(.y) { box-shadow: var(--w) 12px lab(40% 56.6 39) } minified with targets { chrome: 100 << 16 } through minify_style_arm (src/css/rules/mod.rs:653). splits_selectors is true (src/css/rules/style.rs:73); both selectors fail selector::is_compatible (Chrome 100 has no :has()) and are ordered_removed at mod.rs:689, so sty.selectors.v is empty. mod.rs:761 calls get_supports_rules(sty), which clones the empty selector list into an inner StyleRule (src/css/context.rs:134); mod.rs:821 drops sty via is_empty(), but mod.rs:867 rules.extend(supps) pushes the @ supports rule and SupportsRule::to_css (src/css/rules/supports.rs:424) with to_css_base (style.rs:189) prints it with no selector: @ supports (color:lab(0% 0 0)){{box-shadow:var(--w)12px lab(40% 56.6 39)}} ahead of the two split rules. The base at Chrome 100 wrapped this equal-specificity list in :is() and printed one valid block. Commit 5e07d79 added if sty.selectors.v.is_empty() { (Vec::new(), Vec::new()) } plus a test asserting the output, and 86b1f7e removed both.

  Verification: normal — triggered whenever a multi-selector list is fully incompatible with :is()-capable targets (e.g. .a:has(.x), .b:has(.y) at chrome 100) and the declarations stage a @ supports fallback. src/css/rules/mod.rs:761 get_supports_rules::<R>(sty) runs unconditionally; :867 rules.extend(supps); pushes the supports rule unminified, so the output contains @ supports (color:lab(0% 0 0)){{box-shadow:...}} — invalid CSS.

• 🔴 src/css/rules/mod.rs — Users whose nested rule uses & twice (& + &, & &) or :not(&) under a split parent list now get output that misses the cross-parent combinations. src/css/rules/mod.rs:783 clones the nested rules once per incompatible selector, so .a:has(.x), .b:has(.y) { & + & {color:red} } prints .a:has(.x)+.a:has(.x) and .b:has(.y)+.b:has(.y); .a:has(.x)+.b:has(.y) is lost, and :not(&) widens instead of narrowing. The base wrapped such lists in :is() at :is()-capable targets, which kept every combination. Fix: keep the whole parent list for nested selectors that reference & more than once or under :not(). Pre-existing on targets without :is().

  Why this was flagged

  Input .a:has(.x), .b:has(.y) { & + & { color: red } } minified with targets { chrome: 100 << 16 } (has :is(), no :has()) through minify_style_arm at src/css/rules/mod.rs:653. splits_selectors (src/css/rules/style.rs:73) is true, both selectors are removed at mod.rs:689, and the loop at mod.rs:771-794 builds one clone per selector with rules: sty.rules.deep_clone(context.arena) (mod.rs:783). Each clone has a single selector, so serialize_nesting (src/css/selectors/selector.rs:1315-1320) resolves every & of the nested rule to that one selector: the output is .a:has(.x)+.a:has(.x){color:red}.b:has(.y)+.b:has(.y){color:red}, and an .a:has(.x) element followed by a .b:has(.y) sibling is no longer styled in any browser that parses :has(). The base branch's :is() arm (old mod.rs:666-678) kept the list as one :is(...) selector when the targets support :is(), the specificities were equal and no pseudo-element was present, so & resolved to :is(.a:has(.x),.b:has(.y)) on both sides of the combinator and every combination matched. The same loss already happens on the base for targets without :is(), so it is pre-existing there; this change extends it to every browser target.

  Verification: src/css/rules/mod.rs:771-794 builds one StyleRule per selector with rules: sty.rules.deep_clone(context.arena) (783), and serialize_nesting (src/css/selectors/selector.rs:1315-1320) substitutes each & with the context's single selector, so .a:has(.x)+.b:has(.y) is no longer matched. The removed branch (old mod.rs) wrapped the list into Component::Is(...), which covers all four combinations.

[robobun]

On the two findings outside the diff.

Empty-selector @supports block. It is real, and it is on main. bun build --minify of .a:has(.x), .b:has(.y) { box-shadow: var(--w) 12px lab(40% 56.6 39) } prints two @supports (...){{...}} blocks at the default targets today. This PR makes more lists reach it, but only at targets that have :is(), and no release has such targets. #43240 has the complete fix: the same guard, and a snapshot of the selectors for the second way the list becomes empty, a selector merge with the previous rule. A guard in this PR would duplicate half of #43240 and would change release output in a PR that otherwise does not. The body lists #43240 as a prerequisite of #40368 and #40369, the two PRs that make the new splits reachable.

& + & and :not(&) under a split list. Also real, and bun build --minify 1.4.4 prints it at the default targets: .a:has(.x), .b:has(.y) { & + & { color: red } } gives .a:has(.x)+.a:has(.x){color:red}.b:has(.y)+.b:has(.y){color:red}. The split gives each copy its own clone of the nested rules, so & means one selector. The wrap on main avoided that for the lists it wrapped, and this PR gives that up. It is in Downsides and in the Notes ("What the split does to a list that main wrapped"). To bind a nested & to the whole list is a change to the split itself. It changes release output at the default targets, so it is not in this PR.

Both are the cost of the trade that this PR makes. The wrap changes the match or the weight of flat lists, and main wraps 143 lists of the corpus at the #40369 targets. The split is wrong for these nested shapes. If a maintainer wants the split repaired before the wrap is removed, this PR can wait for that.

[claude]

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

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the refactor itself: hoisting splits_selectors ahead of StyleRule::minify is behavior-preserving (minify in src/css/rules/style.rs does not touch selectors before it reaches minify_nested_rules, so the old in-place computation saw the same list), the parent_is_unused early return matches the old || short-circuit, every caller of the two widened signatures is updated, and the four deleted helpers in src/css/selectors/parser.rs have no remaining callers.

Extended reasoning...

The change removes the :is() collapse branch from minify_style_arm, threads a splits_selectors bool through StyleRule::minify and minify_nested_rules, and deletes the now-unused selector helpers; no security-sensitive surface is touched. The hunt stopped at its bug cap with four confirmed inline findings, so the inline comments already signal that a human look is needed; this note only records the refactor-equivalence checks that came out clean.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟡 src/css/rules/mod.rs — pre-existing at the default targets, and now reached by every list the base wrapped in :is(): a split list with nested rules can resolve a style conflict the wrong way. Each clone built at src/css/rules/mod.rs:783 keeps the nested rules, and :871 pushes the clones one after another, so clone 1's nested rules print before clone 2's own declarations. An element matching clone 1's nested selector and clone 2's selector at equal specificity gets the parent declaration, where source order (and the base's one :is() rule) gives the nested one. Fix: print every split parent's own declarations before any of their nested rules, e.g. hold each clone's nested rules in a trailing rule like nested_rule and push those after all clone bodies. [also at: src/css/rules/mod.rs:878 - At targets with :is() (where #40368/#40369 move the default), a split-off selector's @ supports fallback now prints after its nested rules, so the fallback overrides a later nested @ media declaration; the base wrapped the list and kept source order.]

  Why this was flagged

  Input .a:has(.x), .b:has(.y) { color: red; & > * { color: blue } } minified with targets { chrome: 100 << 16 } enters minify_style_arm; splits_selectors at src/css/rules/mod.rs:671 is true and both selectors are removed at :689. The clones at :776-785 each take rules: sty.rules.deep_clone(context.arena), and :868-871 push the .a:has(.x) clone, then the .b:has(.y) clone. With nesting compiled away the printer emits each clone's declarations then its nested rules, so the output is .a:has(.x){color:red}.a:has(.x)>*{color:#00f}.b:has(.y){color:red}.b:has(.y)>*{color:#00f}. For <div class="a"><i class="x"></i><div class="b"><i class="y"></i></div></div> the inner div matches .a:has(.x)>* (0,2,0) in rule 2 and .b:has(.y) (0,2,0) in rule 3, so it is red. The source places the nested rule after both parent selectors, so it is blue, and the base at these targets printed :is(.a:has(.x),.b:has(.y)){color:red} followed by the nested rule, also blue. The only ordering guard is the kept-selectors nested_rule pushed last at :880-882; it does not order one clone's nested rules after the other clones' declarations.

  Verification: Pre-existing at the shipping default targets (chrome87 lacks :is(), so the base already splits by the same route), a regression only at targets that have :is() but not every selector of the list. src/css/rules/mod.rs:868-871 pushes clone 1 then clone 2, so .b:has(.y){color:red} comes after .a:has(.x)>*{color:blue} at equal specificity and it gets red; the base at chrome 100 cascades correctly.

• 🟣 src/css/rules/mod.rs — pre-existing, widened: a few-KB nested stylesheet can still make the bundler clone one declaration block tens of thousands of times, producing gigabytes of output or an OOM. The split at src/css/rules/mod.rs:776-785 copies the whole declaration block and a deep clone of the nested rules per incompatible selector, and MAX_SELECTOR_EXPANSION counts selectors, not bytes. Fix: bound the bytes the split duplicates (declarations and nested rules), like MAX_PREFIX_EXPANSION_BYTES does for prefix passes, so the cap scales with the payload copied, not only the selector count. Before this change targets with :is() printed one rule here; the PR note sizes it at 66 MB for 100 small declarations, but one large declaration reaches gigabytes.

  Why this was flagged

  Input: 15 nesting levels of .a:has(i), .b:has(i) { whose innermost block holds a single 64 KiB custom property, minified with chrome 100 targets (or, pre-existing, with the default bundler targets using .a:where(i), .b:where(i)). At every level splits_selectors (src/css/rules/style.rs:73) is true, the partition at src/css/rules/mod.rs:679-692 removes both selectors, and each clone at mod.rs:776-785 gets decl_block_static(...) of the declarations plus sty.rules.deep_clone(context.arena), so the innermost declaration ends up copied 2^15 = 32768 times, about 2 GiB of arena memory and output from a 65 KB input. The budget in charge_selector_expansion (style.rs:400-412) sums 2^2+...+2^15 = 65532, under MAX_SELECTOR_EXPANSION (mod.rs:1207, 65_536), so no error fires; the only byte bound, MAX_PREFIX_EXPANSION_BYTES (style.rs:99), applies to prefix passes only. On the base branch chrome 100 targets wrapped each list in :is() and printed the declaration once; at the default targets the base already split, so there this is pre-existing.

  Verification: src/css/rules/mod.rs:776-785 builds one clone per selector; leaves double per level, 32768 copies of the innermost block. charge_selector_expansion (style.rs:396-415) counts selectors: 65532 ≤ MAX_SELECTOR_EXPANSION 65_536 (mod.rs:1207), so no error at 15 levels. On the base at chrome 100 the same input was wrapped into one :is(...) selector, so the declaration block was printed once.

[robobun]

On the two findings outside the diff.

Order of the nested rules of split rules. Confirmed. .a:has(.x), .b:has(.y) { color: red; & > * { color: blue } } prints .a:has(.x){color:red}.a:has(.x)>*{color:#00f}.b:has(.y){color:red}.b:has(.y)>*{color:#00f} at the default targets on main, and with this PR also at targets that have :is(). I added it to the Notes next to the @supports order that was already there. To hold the nested rules of every split rule until all their declarations are printed changes release output at the default targets, so it is not in this PR. #45462 works on that order.

Bytes copied by the split. Confirmed, and it is in Downsides: the limit counts selectors, and the split copies the declarations and the nested rules once per selector. Main does the same at the default targets today (2,465 B of input print 66,846,720 B). A byte bound for that copy is a separate change. I did not add one here.

[claude]

Code review completed

Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

[Jarred-Sumner]

Landed in #47025 (7942008).

Never wrap a selector list in :is(). 414 real stylesheets

[robobun]

Confirmed on main at 7942008. minify_style_arm no longer builds :is(list).

I ran the 24 cases of this PR against a debug build of that commit. All 24 print the expected output. A build of main from before #47025 fails 21 of them.

My notes on #40369 and #40368 asked for this change and #43240 to merge first. Both are on main now, so I updated the notes. One point stays open for #40369. Its case css/has-selector-list-not-duplicated expects :is(:has(.a),:has(.c)){color:red}. At those targets main prints one rule per selector.