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Stop Repeating CSS! Learn CSS Nesting

The new CSS feature that makes your stylesheets more readable and efficient.

3 min readSep 1, 2025

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CSS Nesting

CSS Nesting lets you write CSS rules inside other CSS rules. This makes your code cleaner, shorter, and easier to understand.

Think of it like how HTML elements are placed inside each other. For example, a <ul> inside a <nav>.

CSS Nesting works the same way, so you write styles for child elements inside the parent’s styles.

Why use CSS Nesting?

  • Keeps your CSS organized: You group styles that belong together.
  • Makes your code easier to read: You can see the relationship between elements clearly.
  • Saves time: You write less repeating code.

How CSS Nesting Works

Here’s a quick example:

nav {
background: #333;
ul {
list-style: none;
li {
color: white;
padding: 10px;
}
}
}

Here,

  • The <nav> element has a dark background (#333).
  • Inside <nav>, all <ul> lists will have no bullet points (list-style: none).
  • Inside those <ul> lists, every <li> (list item) will…

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devShefali

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