March 13, 2024
Scope JavaScript and CSS with the Web Platform
CSS @scope combined with custom elements in JavaScript introduces a more native approach to scoping, allowing for cleaner and more manageable code in web development.
By Ross Robinocss / javascript / scope
JavaScript frameworks offer solutions to ensure the code you are writing only affects the areas of the application that you want it to. CSS @scope support has recently arrived in Safari 17.4. By using custom elements and @scope, developers can now take advantage of scoping built directly into the platform.
Use custom elements to scope JavaScript to a specific element. this allows you to query only within the element. You can do this with regular elements as well, but custom elements provide a nice declarative barrier during authoring.
Styles within @scope apply to the parent element and children.…