<![CDATA[Nested CSS]]>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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]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/26622/nested-cssRSS for NodeSun, 12 Apr 2026 06:13:50 GMTMon, 10 Feb 2025 14:44:49 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Nested CSS on Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:27:59 GMT]]>@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

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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.

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