Nested CSS

[External Usage]

Can you please fix highlighting nested css style like :

div {display: flex;
  a {color: green;
     b {background: red}
  }
}

It becomes very often used.
Thanx.

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[PeterJones]

@External-Usage ,

Notepad++ uses a library called “Lexilla” for doing the lexing. Lexilla has a “testbed” editor called SciTE which shows they have the same problem

Per this recent discussion here, there is an open request with the Lexilla team to allow nested CSS (and the & selector). Until Lexilla is able to fix their library to handle nested CSS properly, Notepad++ will not be able to; once they release a version with that fix, and once Notepad++ updates to that version, then it will be fixed in Notepad++… but since the request has been active since 2023, I am doubtful it will happen any time soon. Sorry.