SMRTR ProgrammingAug 19, 2026Hacker News

The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector

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CSS is gaining a Class Prefix Selector (`.prefix-*`) to target multiple hyphen-prefixed classes in one rule, removing the need for attribute substring hacks. No browsers support it yet, and production use is years away.

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