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spaces on selectors (or containers in general) don't work

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with the parser construction and .toString() example in the issue, then trace how selector containers and their spaces values are serialized. Reproduce the :not case and determine how container-level spacing should be represented so the output preserves the requested spaces; add coverage for that behavior.

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Description

parser
  .pseudo({
    value: ':not',
    nodes: [
      selectorParser.selector({
        nodes: [selectorParser.tag({ value: 'span' })],
        spaces: { before: ' ', after: ' ' },
      }),
      selectorParser.selector({
        nodes: [selectorParser.tag({ value: 'span' })],
        spaces: { before: ' ', after: ' ' },
      }),
    ],
  })
  .toString() // ':not(span,span)'

I think the idea is that the spaces go on the nodes, but that's a bit unwieldy of an API when walking through the or transforming selectors, since you drill down and find the first non-container thing to apply spacing too.

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