This PR improves the compatibility with Tailwind CSS v4 with unsupported
browsers with the goal to greatly improve compatibility with Safari 15.
To make this work, this PR makes the following changes to all code
- Change `oklab(…)` default theme values to use a percentage in the
first place (so instead of `--color-red-500: oklch(0.637 0.237 25.331);`
we now define it as `--color-red-500: oklch(63.7% 0.237 25.331);` since
this syntax has much broader support on Safari).
- Polyfill `@property` with a `@supports` query targeting older versions
of Safari and Firefox *
- Create fallbacks for the `color-mix(…)` function that use _inlined
color values from your theme_ so that they can be computed a compile
time by `lightningcss`. These fallbacks will convert to srgb to increase
compatibility.
- Create fallbacks for the _relative color_ feature used in the new
shadow utilities and using `color-mix(…)` in case _relative color_ is
applied on `currentcolor` (due to limited browser support)
- Create fallbacks for gradient interpolation methods (e.g. to support
`bg-linear-to-r/oklab`)
- Polyfill `@media` queries range syntax.
## A simplified example
Given this example CSS input:
```css
@import 'tailwindcss';
@source inline('from-cyan-500/50 bg-linear-45');
```
Here's the updated output CSS including the newly added polyfills and
updated `oklab` values:
```css
.bg-linear-45 {
--tw-gradient-position: 45deg;
background-image: linear-gradient(var(--tw-gradient-stops));
}
@supports (background-image: linear-gradient(in lab, red, red)) {
.bg-linear-45 {
--tw-gradient-position: 45deg in oklab;
}
}
.from-cyan-500\\/50 {
--tw-gradient-from: oklab(71.5% -.11682 -.08247 / .5);
--tw-gradient-stops: var(--tw-gradient-via-stops, var(--tw-gradient-position), var(--tw-gradient-from) var(--tw-gradient-from-position), var(--tw-gradient-to) var(--tw-gradient-to-position));
}
@supports (color: color-mix(in lab, red, red)) {
.from-cyan-500\\/50 {
--tw-gradient-from: color-mix(in oklab, var(--color-cyan-500) 50%, transparent);
}
}
:root, :host {
--color-cyan-500: oklch(71.5% .143 215.221);
}
@supports (((-webkit-hyphens: none)) and (not (margin-trim: 1lh))) or ((-moz-orient: inline) and (not (color: rgb(from red r g b)))) {
@layer base {
*, :before, :after, ::backdrop {
--tw-gradient-position: initial;
--tw-gradient-from: #0000;
--tw-gradient-via: #0000;
--tw-gradient-to: #0000;
--tw-gradient-stops: initial;
--tw-gradient-via-stops: initial;
--tw-gradient-from-position: 0%;
--tw-gradient-via-position: 50%;
--tw-gradient-to-position: 100%;
}
}
}
@property --tw-gradient-position {
syntax: "*";
inherits: false
}
@property --tw-gradient-from {
syntax: "<color>";
inherits: false;
initial-value: #0000;
}
@property --tw-gradient-via {
syntax: "<color>";
inherits: false;
initial-value: #0000;
}
@property --tw-gradient-to {
syntax: "<color>";
inherits: false;
initial-value: #0000;
}
@property --tw-gradient-stops {
syntax: "*";
inherits: false
}
@property --tw-gradient-via-stops {
syntax: "*";
inherits: false
}
@property --tw-gradient-from-position {
syntax: "<length-percentage>";
inherits: false;
initial-value: 0%;
}
@property --tw-gradient-via-position {
syntax: "<length-percentage>";
inherits: false;
initial-value: 50%;
}
@property --tw-gradient-to-position {
syntax: "<length-percentage>";
inherits: false;
initial-value: 100%;
}
```
## \* A note on `@property` polyfills and CSS modules
On Next.js, CSS module files are required to be _pure_, meaning that all
selectors must either be scoped to a class or an ID. Fortunatnyl for us,
this does not apply to `@property` rules which we've been using before
to initialize CSS variables.
However, since we're now bringing back the `@property` polyfills, that
would cause unexpected rules to be exported from the CSS file as this:
```css
@reference "tailwindcss";
.skew {
@apply skew-7;
}
```
Would turn to the following file:
```css
.skew {
/* … */
}
@supports (/*…*/) {
@layer base {
*, :before, :after, ::backdrop {
--tw-gradient-position: initial;
}
}
}
@property /* … */
```
Notice that this adds a `*` selector which is not considered pure.
Unfortunately there is no way for us to silence this warning or work
around it, as the dependency causing this errors
([`postcss-modules-local-by-default`](https://github.com/css-modules/postcss-modules-local-by-default))
is bundled into Next.js. To work around crashes, these polyfills will
not apply to CSS modules processed by the PostCSS extension for now.
## Testing on tailwindcss.com
To see the changes in effect, take a look at this screencast that
compares tailwindcss.com on iOS 15.5 with a version that has the patches
of this PR applied:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1279d6f5-3c63-4f30-839c-198a789f4292
## Test plan
- Tested on tailwindcss.com via a preview build:
https://tailwindcss-com-git-legacy-browsers-tailwindlabs.vercel.app/
- Updated tests
- Ensure we also test on Chrome 111, Safari 16.4, Firefox 128 to
make sure we have no regressions. Also tested on Safari 16.4, 15.5, 18.0
Prepare the 4.0.16 release.
~~Also added a commit to mark the `--value('…')` and `--modifier('…')`
with literals strings as an experimental feature (aka not shipped in
this PR). But we can revert that commit if we still want to ship it in
4.0.16 instead of 4.1.~~
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This PR fixes an issue where installing a specific version of
`@tailwindcss/postcss` and `tailwindcss` could still result in a version
mismatch. This is because we were relying on `^4.0.6` for example
instead of `4.0.6`.
This PR now pins all these versions to prevent this:
```
❯ pnpm why tailwindcss
devDependencies:
@tailwindcss/postcss 4.0.5
├─┬ @tailwindcss/node 4.0.6
│ └── tailwindcss 4.0.6
└── tailwindcss 4.0.5
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This PR improves the performance of the `@tailwindcss/postcss` and
`@tailwindcss/vite` implementations.
The issue is that in some scenarios, if you have multiple `.css` files,
then all of the CSS files are ran through the Tailwind CSS compiler. The
issue with this is that in a lot of cases, the CSS files aren't even
related to Tailwind CSS at all.
E.g.: in a Next.js project, if you use the `next/font/local` tool, then
every font you used will be in a separate CSS file. This means that we
run Tailwind CSS in all these files as well.
That said, running Tailwind CSS on these files isn't the end of the
world because we still need to handle `@import` in case `@tailwind
utilities` is being used. However, we also run the auto source detection
logic for every CSS file in the system. This part is bad.
To solve this, this PR introduces an internal `features` to collect what
CSS features are used throughout the system (`@import`, `@plugin`,
`@apply`, `@tailwind utilities`, etc…)
The `@tailwindcss/postcss` and `@tailwindcss/vite` plugin can use that
information to decide if they can take some shortcuts or not.
---
Overall, this means that we don't run the slow parts of Tailwind CSS if
we don't need to.
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We noticed that in the current alpha 34 release, the `package.json` file
of the `@tailwindcss/node` package only defines `tailwindcss` as a dev
dependency. This makes it very easy for version mismatches to happen
when a v3 version (or an earlier v4 alpha for that matter) was installed
in the same project:
```json
{
"name": "@tailwindcss/node",
"version": "4.0.0-alpha.34",
"description": "A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.",
"license": "MIT",
"repository": {
"type": "git",
"url": "https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.git",
"directory": "packages/@tailwindcss-node"
},
"bugs": "https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/issues",
"homepage": "https://tailwindcss.com",
"files": [
"dist/"
],
"publishConfig": {
"provenance": true,
"access": "public"
},
"exports": {
".": {
"types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
"import": "./dist/index.mjs",
"require": "./dist/index.js"
},
"./require-cache": {
"types": "./dist/require-cache.d.ts",
"default": "./dist/require-cache.js"
},
"./esm-cache-loader": {
"types": "./dist/esm-cache.loader.d.mts",
"default": "./dist/esm-cache.loader.mjs"
}
},
"devDependencies": {
"tailwindcss": "4.0.0-alpha.34"
},
"dependencies": {
"enhanced-resolve": "^5.17.1",
"jiti": "^2.0.0-beta.3"
},
"scripts": {
"build": "tsup-node",
"dev": "pnpm run build -- --watch"
}
}
```
Furthermore, we were trying to fix issues where our integration test
setup could not install `tailwindcss@3` because of how we did pnpm
overrides.
This PR fixes this by:
- Ensuring every client that calls into `tailwindcss` core marks it as a
version-pinned dependency. You are still required to install
`tailwindcss` in your project along side a client (e.g.
`@tailwindcss/vite`) but we now only use your installed version for
importing the respective `.css` files. For the core logic, we are now
requiring each package to use `tailwindcss` at the same version. This
should help resolve issues like
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/discussions/14652
- We tried to eliminate the dependency on `tailwindcss` from the
`@tailwindcss/upgrade` package. Unfortunately this is not possible to do
right now because we need to load the CSS files from v4 to create the
right environment. In a future version we could bundle the required CSS
files with `@tailwidncss/upgrade` but it doesn't seem necessary for now.
- We then changed our integration test overrides to only override the
`tailwindcss` package that are dependencies of the known list of
packages that we have `tailwindcss` dependencies on: `@tailwindcss/node`
and `@tailwindcss/upgrade`. This ensures that we can install v3 of
`tailwindcss` in the integration tests and it will work. Something we
want to do for some upgrade tests.
# Test plan
Integration work again. Furthermore we added a quick setup with the CLI
using the local tarballs and ensured it works:
```bash
pnpm init
pnpm install ../../tailwindcss/dist/tailwindcss-cli.tgz
pnpm install ../../tailwindcss/dist/tailwindcss.tgz
echo '@import "tailwindcss";' > index.css
echo '<div class="underline"></div>' > index.html
pnpm tailwindcss -i index.css -o out.css
cat out.css
```
This PR adds `postcss` as a dependency of `@tailwindcss/postcss`.
If you are in an environment with Next.js where you can use the
`@tailwindcss/postcss` package, then `postcss` is required.
If you have `postcss` in your `package.json`, then everything is fine,
however if you don't then you will get an error that `postcss` cannot be
found.
Note: this only happens when you are using `npm`, if you are using
`pnpm`, then the `postcss` package can be resolved correctly and you
won't run into issues. This is also why the integration tests just
worked (because we use `pnpm`).
To make sure that this package works for most people in most
environments, we explicitly add `postcss` as a dependency of
`@tailwindcss/postcss`.
---
I wanted to create an integration test for this to make sure this works,
but we are currently using `pnpm` with some of `pnpm`'s features to make
sure that we can override dependencies that point to `.tgz` files.
This PR improves the performance of the `@tailwindcss/postcss` plugin.
Before this change we created 2 compiler instances instead of a single
one. On a project where a `tailwindcss.config.ts` file is used, this
means that the timings look like this:
```
[@tailwindcss/postcss] Setup compiler: 137.525ms
⋮
[@tailwindcss/postcss] Setup compiler: 43.95ms
```
This means that with this small change, we can easily shave of ~50ms for
initial PostCSS builds.
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Co-authored-by: Jordan Pittman <jordan@cryptica.me>
