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Style declarations are filtered by a condition and applied to the container if the condition is true. The current wording says that styles are “applied to the container if the condition is true,” which seems wrong. From my understanding, container queries evaluate the container’s size or style, but the rules inside @container apply to descendant elements, not the container itself. It might be clearer to rephrase this to something like: “Styles inside the @container rule are applied to elements within the container when the condition is true.”
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Thanks for sending this PR, @sohilsshah! And welcome to MDN.
I agree with the change. I have a suggestion to improve it further, plus there's one more instance where we can be clearer.
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Co-authored-by: Dipika Bhattacharya <dipika@foss-community.org>
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Style declarations are filtered by a condition and applied to the container if the condition is true.
The current wording says that styles are “applied to the container if the condition is true,” which seems wrong.
From my understanding, container queries evaluate the container’s size or style, but the rules inside @container apply to descendant elements, not the container itself.
I think it should say "Style declarations are filtered by a condition and applied to the elements if the condition is true."
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