[robobun]

Problem

• bun build refuses CSS that it prints. It lowers li::before { &::marker {} } to li:before::marker, then fails on it: error: Invalid selector. Token is not allowed in this state. ::before::marker and ::after::marker fail too.
• css-pseudo-4 makes both valid and Chrome 153 keeps them. No user reported this.
• The gate in parse_one_simple_selector (src/css/selectors/parser.rs:3275) refuses every pseudo-element once AFTER_PSEUDO_ELEMENT is set. It does not read the name.

Fix

• The failing branch of that gate now accepts marker when the last simple selector in the SelectorBuilder is ::before or ::after.
• The gate tests exact adjacency: ::before::marker::marker and ::before:hover::marker stay errors, as in Chrome.
• GenericSelector::append puts the :dir() fallback of a lowered logical property in front of ::before: li:dir(ltr):before::marker.
• Verified: test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts, 20 new rows fail on main. Self-reviewed: 11 concerns raised, 10 addressed. Not done: an issue for :window-inactive (Notes).

Background

• AFTER_PSEUDO_ELEMENT is the parser state bit that records a known pseudo-element.
• SelectorBuilder holds the simple selectors of one selector. A nested list (:has()) has its own.
• Considered the state bit of Servo and Fix parsing of pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes after ::details-content parcel-bundler/lightningcss#1308. Every pseudo-element token writes it and :has() inherits it. Servo's accepts ::before::marker::marker. Blink and WebKit test the preceding pseudo-element.

Downsides

• Rows that Chrome drops now build: ::before::marker:hover, a:has(::before::marker), ::highlight(x)::before::marker. a::before::marker:is(.x) builds as a:before::marker:is(). Main builds each shape without the pair.
• With --target=bun, equal rules for a::before and a::before::marker merge, and Safari drops the merged rule. The default target keeps them apart.
• Cost: .text +512 bytes, 0 new symbols, and 1 to 15 more instructions per direction-fallback selector.

Notes

Origin. No tracker issue reports this. It was found while #45504 was prepared, and #45504 lists the pair under "Not fixed here". Upstream has the same bug open as parcel-bundler/lightningcss#990. It is not a regression: 1.3.13, 1.4.2, 1.4.3 and main fail the same, and the gate logic dates from the first commit of the CSS parser (#14122). This is a low-priority conformance fix and a follow-up to #45504.

Repro.

printf 'li::before { &::marker { color: red } }\n' > n.css
bun build ./n.css --outdir=o && bun build ./o/n.css --outdir=o2

On main the first build exits 0 and writes li:before::marker { color: red; }. The second build exits 1 at o/n.css:2:18. With this PR both builds exit 0.

Rule. css-pseudo-4, ::marker: "The ::before::marker or ::after::marker selectors are valid [...] However ::marker::marker is invalid". WPT css/css-pseudo/parsing/tree-abiding-pseudo-elements.html has 41 rows. Main agrees with 39 of them (the two it fails are this pair). This PR agrees with 41.

Verdicts (bun build, Chrome 153.0.8010.52 new CSSStyleSheet().replaceSync(sel + ' {opacity:1}')):

Selector	main	PR	Chrome
::before::marker, ::after::marker, li::before::marker, :before::marker, ::BEFORE::MARKER	exit 1	builds	keeps
::part(x)::before::marker, ::slotted(x)::after::marker, :host::before::marker	exit 1	builds	keeps
::before::before, ::before::after, ::marker::before, ::marker::marker, ::first-line::marker	exit 1	exit 1	drops
::before::marker::marker, ::before:hover::marker, ::before:has(::marker), ::before::marker(x), ::before::markers	exit 1	exit 1	drops
a::before ::marker, a::before > ::marker, a::before + ::marker, a::before ~ ::marker	exit 1	exit 1	drops
::before:hover, ::marker:hover, a:has(::before), ::cue(::before), ::unknown-thing::before, ::highlight(x)::before, ::before&	builds	builds	drops
::before::marker:hover, a:has(::before::marker), ::cue(::before::marker), ::unknown-thing::before::marker, ::highlight(x)::before::marker, ::before::marker&	exit 1	builds	drops
a::before:is(.x), a::marker:is(.x), a::before:where(.x)	builds with an empty :is() or :where()	the same	keeps with an empty :is() or :where()
a::before::marker:is(.x), a::before::marker:where(.x)	exit 1	builds as a:before::marker:is(), a:before::marker:where()	keeps with an empty :is() or :where()
::details-content::before::marker, ::picker(select)::before::marker	exit 1	exit 1	keeps

Matrix. 2,871 selectors (900 pseudo-element pairs, 1,860 triples, 111 other rows) through cssInternals.minifyTestWithOptions on 1.4.3 and on this branch:

• 48 go from error to build. Chrome keeps 29 of the 41 plain selectors among them. It drops the other 12: a user-action pseudo-class after the pair (5 rows), the pair inside :has() or ::cue() (4), the pair after an unknown pseudo-element (2), and ::before::marker& (1). Main builds each of these shapes without the pair.
• 0 go from build to error. Of the 900 pairs, 2 change.
• 7 keep failing with a later, more specific error, because the parser now reads past ::before::marker. Example: ::before::marker.x gave Token is not allowed in this state and now gives Unexpected selector after pseudo-element: .. ::before::marker::marker keeps its text and the column moves from the second pseudo-element to the third.
• @scope (::before::marker) printed @scope() and now prints the selector.
• On the default target a::before::marker& prints a:before::marker:scope, which does not parse again. Main does the same for a::before& (a:before:scope).

Tests. The rows that must fail use expect(...).toThrow(message), because error_test in css.test.ts is a test.skip stub. With the src/ of main the file has 1338 pass and 20 fail. The 20 are 12 rows that must build, 3 rows that pin the later error text and 5 rows for the direction fallback (::before and ::after, flat and nested). On this branch it has 1358 pass and 0 fail. Also ran test/bundler/css/, test/bundler/esbuild/css.test.ts and seven selector files in test/js/bun/css/ on the debug build: 332 pass, 0 fail.

Measurements. Release builds (bun run build:release) of main (91e7e3b) and of this branch:

• parse_selector::<Selectors> 20,775 to 21,198 bytes. get_additional_rules_helper, which inlines append, 821 to 917 bytes. .text 81,665,765 to 81,666,277. 140,631 defined symbols in both (nm -S and size -A on bun-profile).
• The new parser code is inside the branch that returned the error. lookup_pseudo_element stays inlined. One call is added there (the marker compare). append gets no new call.
• Instructions inside parse_selector for bun build, counted with qemu-user, main then this branch: .c{} 362, 360. a::before{} 510, 501. .c::before:hover{} 795, 786. bulma.css: 2,945,336, 2,930,349. The lower counts are code layout. The change removes no work.
• Instructions inside get_additional_rules_helper per append call: +1 for .c, +10 for .c::before, +15 for .c::marker (1,000 rules with inset-inline-start each). bulma.css on the default target: 13,354 to 13,918 for the build, and the output is byte-identical.

Direction fallback. For targets without logical properties, inset-inline-start: 1px becomes left: 1px under :dir(ltr) and right: 1px under :dir(rtl) (or the :lang() forms). GenericSelector::append adds that pseudo-class in front of the last pseudo-element, so the first commit printed li:before:dir(ltr)::marker. The second commit puts it in front of ::before when ::marker follows it. It is limited to this pair. A general rule would also move the fallback of chains such as ::details-content::before (#45504), which get it on ::details-content. Checked 5,747 outputs with the src/ of main, of the first commit and of the second commit (15 fixture sheets in 5 modes, 202 selectors with 7 direction-dependent declarations on 4 targets, 4 nested forms):

• No output without the pair changes, and no fixture sheet changes.
• The second commit changes 466 outputs, all with the pair.
• Outputs with the pair that parse again: 833 of 1,376 on the first commit, 1,243 of 1,376 on the second.
• The second commit can be dropped on its own. The pair then still builds, with the placement of the first commit.

Overlaps.

• css: parse ::details-content and ::picker() like ::part() #45504 edits the arm of parse_compound_selector that sets the state. This PR does not touch that arm. git merge-tree of this branch with css: parse ::details-content and ::picker() like ::part() #45504, css: parse :state(), ::highlight(), four css-pseudo-4 pseudo-elements, @position-try and @font-feature-values #42918 and css: use :is() for a nesting parent with a pseudo-element when more follows the & #43078 has 0 conflicts in either order. css modules: decide local vs global at parse, fixing :global() exports and & inside :global() #45487 inserts a function in front of append. Its hunk still applies (its one conflict is with main, in a test file).
• With css: parse ::details-content and ::picker() like ::part() #45504 merged, ::details-content::before::marker and ::picker(select)::before::marker build with no further change (checked on a merged parser.rs). Neither PR tests those rows, because each needs the other. The PR that lands second adds them.
• css: parse ::details-content and ::picker() like ::part() #45504 says "No gate has a per-name exception". This PR adds one at the pseudo-element gate. The css-pseudo-4 rule is per-name, and Blink and WebKit encode it the same way. Of 30 pseudo-element names, marker is the only one that Chrome 153 keeps after ::before or ::after.

Not fixed here.

• ::details-content::marker and ::picker(select)::marker: refused until css: parse ::details-content and ::picker() like ::part() #45504.
• :window-inactive after ::selection and on an element: a different gate (parse_simple_pseudo_class), listed in css: parse ::details-content and ::picker() like ::part() #45504. No issue is filed for it. The maintainer comment on css: :state(), ::highlight(), ::target-text, @position-try and four more constructs that lightningcss parses still warn as unsupported #42909 says "GitHub issues are for user-facing issues and a user did not run into this issue".
• ::before::column and ::before::column::scroll-marker: WPT lists them as valid, and Chrome 153 drops them. They stay refused.
• The no-op valid_after_slotted() check below the gate stays. Making it real turns ::slotted(x)::selection, which builds today, into an error.
• The direction fallback keeps the placement of main in two shapes. The nested form li::before { &::marker { inset-inline-start: 1px } } prints li:before:dir(ltr)::marker, because append sees only &::marker. After ::part(x) or ::slotted(x) the fallback goes behind that pseudo-element, as main does for ::part(x)::before. A pseudo-class behind the pair (::before::marker:hover) is not moved either. These outputs do not parse again.
• Nesting does not check the composed order: a::marker { &::before {} } still builds to a::marker:before.
• Rule merging with no browser targets (second Downsides bullet). A check in is_compatible stops the merge: of 4,446 merge and list outputs, 846 change, all with the pair. It also adds 3 to 6 instructions to each is_compatible call for a selector without ::marker (bulma.css: 100,470 to 105,892 inside is_compatible per build), so it is left out. bun build has two target sets. The default browser set never merges the pair, because ::marker is outside its compat range.

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fails on main (without fix)

ASAN without fix: 20 failed, 72 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts:
Output .flexrow {
  flex-direction: row;
}

.flexcol {
  flex-direction: column;
}

.hello {
  flex-wrap: wrap;
}

.world {
  flex-wrap: nowrap;
}

(pass) css tests > .flexrow {
	flex-direction: row;
}

.flexcol {
	flex-direction: column;
}

.hello {
	flex-wrap: wrap;
}

.world {
	flex-wrap: nowrap;
} [9.75ms]
Output .foo {
  content: "+";
}

(pass) css tests > .foo {
  content: "\2b";
} [9.55ms]
Output div {
  --foo: 1 1 1 #0101011a, 2 2 2 #02020233;
  --bar: 1 1 1 #01010116, 2 2 2 #02020233;
}

(pass) css tests > custom property cases > div {
        --foo: 1 1 1 rgba(1, 1, 1, 0.1), 2 2 2 rgba(2, 2, 2, 0.2);
        --bar: 1 1 1 #01010116, 2 2 2 #02020233;
      } [1.91ms]
Output :root {
  --my-color: red;
  --my-bg: white;
  --my-font-size: 16px;
}

.element {
  color: var(--my-color);
  background-color: var(--my-bg);
  font-size: var(--my-font-size);
}

(pass) css tests > custom property cases > :root {
        --my-color: red;
        --my-bg: wh
... (truncated)

release without fix: 44 failed, 72 skipped
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (367d939d9)

test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts:
Output .flexrow {
  flex-direction: row;
}

.flexcol {
  flex-direction: column;
}

.hello {
  flex-wrap: wrap;
}

.world {
  flex-wrap: nowrap;
}

(pass) css tests > .flexrow {
	flex-direction: row;
}

.flexcol {
	flex-direction: column;
}

.hello {
	flex-wrap: wrap;
}

.world {
	flex-wrap: nowrap;
} [1.00ms]
Output .foo {
  content: "+";
}

(pass) css tests > .foo {
  content: "\2b";
} [0.58ms]
Output div {
  --foo: 1 1 1 #0101011a, 2 2 2 #02020233;
  --bar: 1 1 1 #01010116, 2 2 2 #02020233;
}

(pass) css tests > custom property cases > div {
        --foo: 1 1 1 rgba(1, 1, 1, 0.1), 2 2 2 rgba(2, 2, 2, 0.2);
        --bar: 1 1 1 #01010116, 2 2 2 #02020233;
      } [0.21ms]
Output :root {
  --my-color: red;
  --my-bg: white;
  --my-font-size: 16px;
}

.element {
  color: var(--my-color);
  background-color: var(--my-bg);
  font-size: var(--my-font-size);
}

(pass) css tests > custom property cases > :root {
        --my-color: red;
        --my-bg: white;
        --my-font-size: 16px;
      }
      .element {
        color: var(--my-color);
        background-color: var(--my-bg);
        font-size: 
... (truncated)

passes on PR (with fix)

ASAN with fix: 72 skipped
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts
rustup spent 8s installing the pinned toolchain (nightly-2026-09-15); it was missing or incomplete on this machine
bun test v1.4.4 (367d939d9)

test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts:
Output .flexrow {
  flex-direction: row;
}

.flexcol {
  flex-direction: column;
}

.hello {
  flex-wrap: wrap;
}

.world {
  flex-wrap: nowrap;
}

(pass) css tests > .flexrow {
	flex-direction: row;
}

.flexcol {
	flex-direction: column;
}

.hello {
	flex-wrap: wrap;
}

.world {
	flex-wrap: nowrap;
} [3.66ms]
Output .foo {
  content: "+";
}

(pass) css tests > .foo {
  content: "\2b";
} [1.93ms]
Output div {
  --foo: 1 1 1 #0101011a, 2 2 2 #02020233;
  --bar: 1 1 1 #01010116, 2 2 2 #02020233;
}

(pass) css tests > custom property cases > div {
        --foo: 1 1 1 rgba(1, 1, 1, 0.1), 2 2 2 rgba(2, 2, 2, 0.2);
        --bar: 1 1 1 #01010116, 2 2 2 #02020233;
      } [0.92ms]
Output :root {
  --my-color: red;
  --my-bg: white;
  --my-font-size: 16px;
}

.element {
  color: var(--my-color);
  background-color: var(--my-bg);
  font-size: var(
... (truncated)

release with fix: 72 skipped
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 3323ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/110] build.rs build_script_build
[2/110] rustc bun_platform 
[3/110] rustc bun_core 
[4/110] rustc bun_safety 
[5/110] rustc bun_output 
[6/110] rustc bun_zlib_sys 
[7/110] rustc bun_zstd 
[8/110] rustc bun_picohttp 
[9/110] rustc bun_base64 
[10/110] rustc bun_cares_sys 
[11/110] rustc bun_lsquic_sys 
[12/110] rustc bun_brotli 
[13/110] rustc bun_boringssl_sys 
[14/110] rustc bun_clap 
[15/110] rustc bun_text_diff 
[16/110] rustc bun_ptr 
[17/110] rustc bun_valkey 
[18/110] rustc bun_errno 
[19/110] rustc bun_tcc_sys 
[20/110] rustc bun_shell_parser 
warning: `feature(generic_const_exprs)` is not supported with the next-generation trait solver
 --> src/shell_parser/lib.rs:1:30
  |
1 | #![feature(adt_const_params, generic_const_exprs, allocator_api)]
  |                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  |
  = note: `-Znext-solver=globally` is currently enabled by default for testing
  = note: reverted the setting to `-Znext-solver=coherence` for this crate
  = note: the currently stable trait solver w
... (truncated)

diff hotspot

src/css/selectors/builder.rs |  6 ++++
 src/css/selectors/parser.rs  | 31 ++++++++++++++++++--
 test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts  | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file

file                          reads  edits  tests
src/css/selectors/builder.rs      1      1     38
src/css/selectors/parser.rs      10      8     39
test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts       5      3     38

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Changes

CSS marker selector parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Recognize and append marker selectors src/css/selectors/builder.rs, src/css/selectors/parser.rs, test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts	The builder exposes the last simple selector. The parser accepts ::marker after ::before or ::after and adjusts the marker insertion point. Tests cover minification, nesting, prefixing, reparsing, logical-property fallbacks, and invalid selector combinations.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bd535

The selector tests need a small change to follow the project’s testing guideline. No behavior-blocking issue is established.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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[robobun]

^{Updated 5:05 AM PT - Oct 21st, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit bd5350f has 1 failures in Build #129935 (All Failures):

• step failed outside runner - exit 1 on 🍎 any aarch64 - test-bun

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[robobun]

Status: ready for review.

How I reproduced it

printf 'li::before { &::marker { color: red } }\n' > n.css
bun build ./n.css --outdir=o && bun build ./o/n.css --outdir=o2
printf '::before::marker { color: red }\n' > t.css && bun build ./t.css --outdir=o3

• 1.3.13, 1.4.2, 1.4.3 and a build of main: the first build exits 0 and writes li:before::marker. The second build and the third build exit 1 with error: Invalid selector. Token is not allowed in this state.
• This branch: all three builds exit 0.

PR: #45810

[claude]

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked whether the new early return skips state bookkeeping: it does not, since the returned PseudoElement(Marker) flows through the same arm in parse_compound_selector (src/css/selectors/parser.rs:786) that sets AFTER_PSEUDO_ELEMENT and pushes the PseudoElement combinator. The DISALLOW_PSEUDOS contexts (:not(), :is(), :nth-child(of)) cannot reach the new branch either, because each parse_selector call gets a fresh SelectorBuilder and ::before is refused there before it could become the last pushed component.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a single per-name exception at the pseudo-element gate in src/css/selectors/parser.rs plus a last_simple_selector accessor on SelectorBuilder, with tests in test/js/bun/css/css.test.ts; it touches no security-sensitive surface. The only call site of parse_one_simple_selector is updated and the BunSelectorImpl bound fixes Impl::PseudoElement to the concrete enum, so the matches! compiles. The posted inline finding about GenericSelector::append producing li:before:dir(ltr)::marker for lowered logical properties is the reason a human should still look.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

One more adjacency gap beyond the inline findings: the new gate in src/css/selectors/parser.rs:3292 reads builder.last_simple_selector(), but SelectorBuilder::push_combinator (src/css/selectors/builder.rs:88) only resets current_len and never touches simple_selectors, so the "last pushed" selector is still ::before after a descendant/child/sibling combinator. a::before ::marker, a::before > ::marker, a::before + ::marker and a::before ~ ::marker now parse (main rejects them) and print back as written, which browsers drop. Requiring the previous selector to be in the current compound (e.g. builder.current_len > 0, or checking it right where parse_compound_selector pushes ::before) closes this, and the test.each rejection matrix should gain those four combinator rows.

Extended reasoning...

The diff threads the SelectorBuilder into parse_one_simple_selector so the AFTER_PSEUDO_ELEMENT gate can admit ::marker after ::before/::after, and adjusts GenericSelector::append insertion for the [Marker, Combinator(PseudoElement), Before|After] prefix; no security-sensitive surface is involved. The adjacency check is based on the builder's flat simple_selectors list, which spans compound boundaries, so combinator-separated ::before ::marker forms are newly accepted; combined with the three inline findings, a human should weigh in before merge.

[robobun]

On the adjacency point in the last review summary: the four combinator forms do not parse on this branch. parse_selector ends the selector after a compound that has a pseudo-element (src/css/selectors/parser.rs:571). So no combinator is pushed after ::before, and the gate reads last_simple_selector() inside one compound only.

Selector	main and this branch
a::before ::marker	Unexpected selector after pseudo-element: :
a::before > ::marker	Unexpected selector after pseudo-element: >
a::before + ::marker	Unexpected selector after pseudo-element: +
a::before ~ ::marker	Unexpected selector after pseudo-element: ~

6de6c95 adds these four rows to the rejection table in css.test.ts. A change to that early exit now fails a test before it can open them.

[claude]

Code review completed

Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

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[Jarred-Sumner]

Part of this landed in #47025 (7942008). Its description says what was taken.

li::before::marker failed the build