Breaking Change: Adjacent Compound Selectors

Going forward, it will be an error to have two compound selectors that aren’t separated by whitespace, like [id]a.

Selectors written this way aren’t allowed in CSS, and it’s not clear whether they’re intended to be the same as (for example) a[id] or [id] a. Historically Sass has allowed them and parsed them as though there was whitespace between them, but this will be an error in the future.

Compatibility:
Dart Sass
since 2.0.0
LibSass
Ruby Sass

Starting in Dart Sass 2.0.0, multiple compound selectors require whitespace (or an explicit combinator (like + or ~) between them.

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Compatibility:
Dart Sass
since 1.100.0
LibSass
Ruby Sass

Until Dart Sass 2.0.0 is released, adjacent compound selectors just produce a deprecation warning.

Can I Silence the Warnings?Can I Silence the Warnings? permalink

Sass provides a powerful suite of options for managing which deprecation warnings you see and when.

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By default, Sass runs in terse mode, where it will only print each type of deprecation warning five times before it silences additional warnings. This helps ensure that users know when they need to be aware of an upcoming breaking change without creating an overwhelming amount of console noise.

If you run Sass in verbose mode instead, it will print every deprecation warning it encounters. This can be useful for tracking the remaining work to be done when fixing deprecations. You can enable verbose mode using the --verbose flag on the command line, or the verbose option in the JavaScript API.

⚠️ Heads up!

When running from the JS API, Sass doesn’t share any information across compilations, so by default it’ll print five warnings for each stylesheet that’s compiled. However, you can fix this by writing (or asking the author of your favorite framework’s Sass plugin to write) a custom Logger that only prints five errors per deprecation and can be shared across multiple compilations.

Silencing Deprecations in DependenciesSilencing Deprecations in Dependencies permalink

Sometimes, your dependencies have deprecation warnings that you can’t do anything about. You can silence deprecation warnings from dependencies while still printing them for your app using the --quiet-deps flag on the command line, or the quietDeps option in the JavaScript API.

For the purposes of this flag, a "dependency" is any stylesheet that’s not just a series of relative loads from the entrypoint stylesheet. This means anything that comes from a load path, and most stylesheets loaded through custom importers.

Silencing Specific DeprecationsSilencing Specific Deprecations permalink

If you know that one particular deprecation isn’t a problem for you, you can silence warnings for that specific deprecation using the --silence-deprecation flag on the command line, or the silenceDeprecations option in the JavaScript API.