CSS Nesting: The Art of Organized Stylesheets

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Nesting in CSS allows developers to group related style rules inside one another — creating more organized, readable, and maintainable stylesheets.

If you’ve ever looked at a tangle of repetitive selectors and thought, “there’s gotta be a cleaner way” — nesting is your answer.

💡 What Is CSS Nesting?

Imagine a .feature section on your site. Instead of writing:

.feature button {
color: blue;
}

.feature .link {
color: red;
}.feature .text {
font-size: 1.3em;
}

You can now nest these neatly:

.feature {
button {
color: blue;
}

.link {
color: red;
} .text {
font-size: 1.3em;
}
}

Simple, clean, and easy to scan — just the way we like our CSS.

🧱 Going Deeper (But Not Too Deep)

You can even nest multiple levels:

.feature {
.heading {
color: blue;

a {
color: green;
}
}
}