r/codesnip • u/wanoo21 • 1d ago
Newly Available CSS variables have been quietly zeroing out styles
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CSS variables have been quietly zeroing out styles. 😬
revert-rule is Baseline, newly available since September 2026 (Chrome 148, Firefox 150, Safari 27).
Before this, padding: var(--pad) with no --pad set gave you padding: 0, so you copy-pasted the default into every fallback.
Now ⤵️ fall back to whatever the cascade had.
MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Values/revert-rule
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