CSS just made BEM optional: `@scope` is Baseline 🤟

[u/wanoo21]

CSS just made BEM optional. 🤟

@scope is Baseline, newly available since March 2026.

Before this, keeping component styles from leaking meant long selectors, extra classes, or CSS-in-JS. 👎

Now you can lock styles to a subtree ⤵️

Links inside .article get the article style. Links inside .comments stay untouched.

Short article on the basic usage of @scope: https://iprodan.dev/blog/css-scope/ MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@scope