🎨 W3C Decided On CSS Nested Syntax

Tom Smykowski
3 min readJan 6, 2023

The end of the year for W3C was full of ups and downs when a debate between the organisation and MIT that eventually was resolved just before Christmas thanks to the leadership of both organisations.

Fortunately, it didn’t impact the work on CSS nesting, a new feature that stirred a heated debate not only in the CSS group, but also in the developer community.

On Dec 15, 2022 Jen Simmons announced a survey to choose what variant of CSS nesting developers would like the most.

After ruling out Option 1 and Option 2, 2500 developers had to choose between Option 3, Option 4 and Option 5.

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Tom Smykowski
Tom Smykowski

Written by Tom Smykowski

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