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Problem

  • bun build --minify prints linear-gradient(to top,green 50%,red 0%) as linear-gradient(red 100%,green 50%). Half green, half red becomes solid red.
  • LinearGradient::to_css (src/css/values/gradient.rs:349) reverses the stops of a to top or 0deg gradient and maps position p to 100% - p. The image changes for out-of-order stops, two stops at one position, and repeating gradients.
  • serialize_items (gradient.rs:1488) drops every 50% hint.

Fix

  • Remove the reversal. A to top gradient prints 0deg and its stops as written.
  • A vendor-prefixed gradient keeps its side keyword under --minify.
  • serialize_items drops a 50% hint only between a first stop at 0% and a stop at 100%.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts (24 tests fail on main), test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts (1). Self-reviewed: 13 concerns raised, 12 addressed. Rejected: a unitless 0 direction (Notes).

Background

Downsides

  • Minified output grows by 5 bytes (0deg,) for each to top gradient with percentage stops: 407 of 5,988 in 538 npm packages.
  • A midpoint 50% hint between stops not at 0% and 100% stays (+4 bytes). 0 of 8,427 corpus gradients have one.
  • A print with no hint runs 2 to 14 more instructions, a to top print 163 fewer. .text shrinks by 512 B.
Notes

Reproduce

printf 'a{background:linear-gradient(to top,green 50%%,red 0%%)}\nb{background:linear-gradient(yellow 0%%,50%%,blue 60%%)}\n' > a.css
bun build a.css --minify
  • main: a{background:linear-gradient(red 100%,green 50%)}b{background:linear-gradient(#ff0 0%,#00f 60%)}
  • this PR: a{background:linear-gradient(0deg,green 50%,red 0%)}b{background:linear-gradient(#ff0 0%,50%,#00f 60%)}

Each of --minify, --minify-syntax, --minify-whitespace and --minify-identifiers alone turns the reversal on. The hint drop needs no flag.

Paint

Source against minified output in headless Chrome 153, device pixel ratio 1, box heights 1 to 160 px, both painted at the same page position. A height counts when a pixel differs by more than 2/255.

Source main this PR
linear-gradient(to top,green 50%,red 0%) 159 of 160 heights, 255/255 0
linear-gradient(to top,green 50%,red 50%) 70 of 160, 255/255 on one pixel row 0
repeating-linear-gradient(to top,blue 10%,yellow 20%) 44 of 160, 255/255 0
linear-gradient(0deg,#d9d9d9,#d9d9d9 50%,transparent 50%) with background-size:100% 1px 160 of 160, 38/255 0
linear-gradient(to top,blue 10%,yellow 20%) 0 0
  • The fourth row is the hairline of mint-ui's .mint-cell:last-child. At device pixel ratio 1 the source paints no line, and the output of main paints a #d9d9d9 line.
  • linear-gradient(yellow 0%,50%,blue 60%) against the output of main without its hint: 117/255 in a 400 px box.
  • 2,000 random gradients in a 400 px box (1,200 upward lists, 800 lists with hints over linear, radial and conic): main paints 1,094 differently, this PR 0.
  • Only Chrome was measured.

Output on real CSS

538 npm packages, 10,239 CSS files, 263 MB, 8,427 gradients with no var() or env().

  • Non-minified output: 0 gradients change.
  • Minified output: 407 of 5,988 standard linear gradients change, +2,155 B. 108 of the 407 have two stops at one position.
  • Minified output of vendor-prefixed linear gradients: 990 of 1,352 change, +2,003 B. See the next section.
  • 6 gradients have a hint. None has a 50% hint.

Vendor-prefixed gradients

In the prefixed syntax a keyword names the side the gradient starts from, and 0deg points right. The printer treated both as the standard syntax. Chrome 153 still reads -webkit-linear-gradient(), so the paint is measured. The output columns leave out the function name.

Source main this PR
-webkit-linear-gradient(top, red, blue, red) (red,#00f,red), same paint (top,red,#00f,red), same paint
-webkit-linear-gradient(top, red 0%, blue 100%) (#00f 0%,red 100%), 255/255 (top,red 0%,#00f 100%), same paint
-webkit-linear-gradient(top, red 10px, blue 20px) (0deg,red 10px,#00f 20px), 255/255 (top,red 10px,#00f 20px), same paint
-webkit-linear-gradient(left, red, blue) (270deg,red,#00f), 143/255 (left,red,#00f), same paint
-webkit-linear-gradient(0deg, red 0%, blue 100%) (#00f 0%,red 100%), 144/255 (0deg,red 0%,#00f 100%), same paint

Reach

Other minifiers

to top,blue 10%,yellow 20% yellow 0%,50%,blue 60%
esbuild 0.28.2 to top,#00f 10%,#ff0 20% hint kept
csso 5.0.5 to top,#00f 10%,#ff0 20% hint kept
clean-css 5.3.3 to top,#00f 10%,#ff0 20% hint kept
cssnano 9.9.0 0deg,blue 10%,#ff0 20% hint kept
lightningcss 1.33.0 #ff0 80%,#00f 90% hint dropped

The alternative that keeps the reversal

A check can keep the reversal for a list that does not repeat, has only finite percentages in strict ascending order (the implicit 0% and 100% ends included), and has no hint except the midpoint one. Source against reversed output for 600 such random lists was within 1/255 in 58,200 Chrome boxes (heights 1 to 97 px, device pixel ratios 1, 1.5 and 2, and 1 px and 3 px tiles). It keeps the 5 bytes on 299 of the 407 corpus gradients. It also keeps the list rebuild, one allocation for each reversed print, and two unreachable!(). Say so if you prefer it.

Cost

Release builds of 179664e with and without this change. Instructions are a gdb single-step count of one warm Image::to_css call.

Print main this PR
linear-gradient(yellow 80%,blue 90%) 2,960 2,962
default direction, 8 stops 10,399 10,413
to right, 2 stops 3,053 3,057
radial-gradient, 2 stops 2,991 2,996
conic-gradient, 2 stops 2,965 2,971
to top,blue 10%,yellow 20% 3,215, 1 mi_malloc 3,052, 0
to top, 8 percentage stops 11,722, 1 mi_malloc 10,500, 0
to top,blue 10px,yellow 20px 3,274 3,248
yellow 0%,50%,blue 60% 3,111 3,750, prints the hint
yellow,50%,blue 1,762 1,797
-webkit-linear-gradient(top,red 0%,blue 100%) 2,767, 1 mi_malloc 2,607, 0
-webkit-linear-gradient(left,red,blue) 1,555 1,556
  • The source adds no check for a stop. The 2 to 14 instructions come from a different register allocation in serialize_items.
  • size: text 107,583,656 B to 107,583,144 B.

Tests

  • 25 new rows in describe("linear-gradient"). 21 fail on main. The other 4 pin a 50% hint that is still dropped.
  • 3 rows that pinned a reversal now expect the written order: to top, blue, yellow, to top, blue 10%, yellow 20% and 0, yellow, blue.
  • I removed each clause of is_midpoint_hint in a mutant build. At least one row failed for each.
  • Also ran test/js/bun/css/ and test/bundler/css/. The four css-fuzz.test.ts cases time out on a debug build in my container, with and without this change.

Out of scope

  • A unitless 0 direction (linear-gradient(0,red,blue)) wins back 3 of the 5 bytes. It is valid CSS, but it is a new output form for every upward gradient. It needs its own change. This is the self-review concern that I rejected.
  • convert_stops_to_webkit copies positions into the legacy -webkit-gradient(), which sorts stops. Only browser targets that no public option can set reach it.
  • Branch robobun/5cdd4b1e/css-gradient-hint-midpoint (no PR) has another rule for the hint: it removes midpoint hints at parse time after full fixup, and it guards the reversal. The hint rule here is narrower and stays in the printer.

…` hint only at the midpoint

Under --minify the printer wrote `linear-gradient(to top, ...)` and
`0deg` with the default direction: it reversed the stops and mapped each
position p to 100% - p. The reversed list is not always the same image.
`to top, green 50%, red 0%` became `red 100%, green 50%`, which paints
solid red, because color stop fixup raises a different stop in each
order. Two stops at one position and the seam of a repeating gradient
also move by one pixel row, because a rasterizer gives the pixel on the
edge to one side by list order.

The printer no longer reverses the list. An upward gradient prints its
direction and its stops as written, like an upward gradient with length
stops already did. This costs the 5 bytes of `0deg,`.

`serialize_items` dropped every `50%` hint. It now drops the hint only
between a first stop at 0% and a stop at 100%, where the hint is the
midpoint of its two stops.

lightningcss has the same code. Its issue for the reversal:
parcel-bundler/lightningcss#1220
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Gradient minification now preserves upward linear-gradient stop order and positions, and serializes direction values according to whether the gradient is prefixed. It also omits 50% hints only when the adjacent stops meet defined midpoint conditions.

Changes

Gradient minification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Linear gradient serialization
src/css/values/gradient.rs, test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts, test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts
Upward gradients now use the ordinary direction-and-items serialization path rather than reversing stops and adjusting positions. Minified direction output and tests cover prefixed and unprefixed gradients, stop order, and positions.
Midpoint hint serialization
src/css/values/gradient.rs, test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts
Serialization omits a 50% hint only when the first stop is unpositioned or at 0%, and the next stop is at 100% or is unpositioned and final. Tests cover linear, radial, and conic gradients.

Possibly related PRs

  • oven-sh/bun#46697: Updates prefixed linear-gradient direction parsing and serialization.

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Build 132190 is complete: 180 of 181 jobs passed. Every test lane passed on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on the ASAN build.

  • The one red job is verify-baseline on Windows x64. test/js/bun/jsc-stress/fixtures/simd-baseline.test.ts timed out in its JPEG codec test under emulation. The same step is red on main in builds 131661 and 131922.
  • This diff does not touch that test. The diff touches src/css/values/gradient.rs and two CSS test files.
  • The build before it, 132180, had one red test, test/js/first_party/ws/ws-proxy.test.ts on Windows 2019 x64. That test is also red on main in build 131489, and it passed in build 132190.
  • Build 132190 is the one rerun that I can start. A maintainer can merge, or start CI again.

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This PR covers the bug I worked on (serialize_items drops a 50% hint that is not the midpoint). I will not open a second PR for it.

For reference, my branch is robobun/5cdd4b1e/css-keep-gradient-hints. It differs in two places:

  • It prints every hint, also the one in linear-gradient(yellow, 50%, blue) (+4 B).
  • It keeps the to top reversal for a list that has no hint and no position below an earlier one.

The branch robobun/5cdd4b1e/css-gradient-hint-midpoint that the Notes name has an older form, which removed a midpoint hint in parse_items.

Comment thread src/css/values/gradient.rs Resolved
…-minify

Under --minify the printer writes `to top` as `0deg` and `to left` as
`270deg`. It did the same for a vendor-prefixed gradient, where `top`
names the side the gradient starts from and `0deg` points right.
`-webkit-linear-gradient(top, red, blue, red)` printed as
`-webkit-linear-gradient(0deg,red,#00f,red)`, which paints left to
right.

A prefixed gradient now keeps its keyword under --minify.

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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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Landed in #47025 (7942008).

Keep the stops of an upward gradient as written, and drop a 50% hint only at the midpoint. 104 real stylesheets

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