End CSS Specificity Battles with Native CSS Layers

Tired of battling CSS specificity wars?

Meet CSS Layers.

A native solution to organise and control your stylesheets more effectively.

Why use them?

• Manage specificity and source order with ease.
• Avoid unintended overrides from third-party styles or components.
• Enhance maintainability in large codebases.

How to implement: This part shows how to set up and organize your styles using CSS Layers:

@layer secondary, main;

This line declares the order of your layers. It’s like a priority list:

• secondary layer loads first (lowest priority)
• main comes after (highest priority)

Then, you define your actual styles inside those layers:

@layer main {
	/* your style */
}
@layer secondary {
	/* your style */
}

Each layer is scoped, and the order you define them in the initial @layer line determines their priority.

Check out the visual:

• Left = classic CSS behavior → body h1 wins with higher specificity
• Right = layered CSS → h1 in the main layer wins, even with lower specificity

95%+ browser support makes this a no-brainer to start using now.

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