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Use `@layer`

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
css
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start by reading the library's current CSS and locating where selectors are wrapped in :where(). Compare that structure with wrapping the library in @layer normalize, then check the resulting specificity behavior and confirm the chosen approach across the project's existing normalization rules.

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Description

Have you considered replacing the wrapping of selectors in :where() with wrapping the entire library in the @layer normalize?

This would also avoid the specificity affect, but with the same simple selectors.

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