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gnat / css-scope-inline

css-scope-inline

🌘 Scope your inline style tags in pure vanilla CSS! Only 16 lines. No build. No dependencies.

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What it is

🌘 Scope your inline style tags in pure vanilla CSS! Only 16 lines. No build. No dependencies.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

May i recommend - https://github.com/gnat/css-scope-inline I am using it in a project and it has been working quite well. And i think it would work along with the Nue design…

formo used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-09-08 16:12:07 UTC to 2025-01-23 06:27:40 UTC.

0122023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 20242024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC220
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20242024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20242024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20242024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20242024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20242024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Sep 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20242024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20242024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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pull_my_finger·Dec 21, 2024
2 neat libraries I've found to work like this are Surreal[1] and CSS-Scope-Inline[2] to get your Locality of Behavior (and Style) without a huge overhead. That said, your markup can get unwieldy fairly quick, and you end up with a lot of similar and duplicated code/style blocks. My solution on a personal site, was to also use a backend-style templating library with partials[3], a file watcher[4] to build them automatically etc to kind of SSG a static site while maintaining reusable components. You can see where this is going, at what point does it make sense to just "reach for xyz framework" out of the gate? For as often as people (especially here) cry "ya aint gonna need it", there are at least as many times where people (less vocally) cry silently to themself, "I wish I'd just used a framework instead of unintentionally building a frank
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en-framework". This from a minimalist developer who has been doing it for a long time, with STRONG opinions about the modern state of the art. Honestly, it's very common for me to feel torn about ideals vs actual pragmatism. [1]: https://github.com/gnat/surreal [2]: https://github.com/gnat/css-scope-inline [3]: https://github.com/leafo/lapis [4]: https://gittup.org/tup
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