Day 55: anonymous layers
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In all previous posts about cascade layers I’ve used named layers in the demos, but it’s actually not required to name them.
Using @layer without a name works just as well. The downsides are that you can’t append styles elsewhere in the document to the same layer and you can’t define a custom order since you don’t have a name to reference them.
@layer {
p {
border: 10px solid red;
}
}
@layer {
p {
border-color: rebeccapurple;
}
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You can also import style sheets into an anonymous layer by using the layer keyword.
@import url('style.css') layer;
Further reading
- Day 37: cascade layers
- Day 40: unlayered styles
- Day 43: grouping layers
- Day 46: ordering layers
- Day 49: layering entire style sheets
- Day 52: multiple layer lists
- Day 58: ordering nested layers
- A Complete Guide to CSS Cascade Layers
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