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no-duplicate-selectors

Disallow duplicate selectors.

    .foo {} .bar {} .foo {}
/** ↑ ↑
* These duplicates */

This rule checks for two types of duplication:

  • Duplication of a single selector with a rule's selector list, e.g. a, b, a {}.
  • Duplication of a selector list within a stylesheet, e.g. a, b {} a, b {}. Duplicates are found even if the selectors come in different orders or have different spacing, e.g. a d, b > c {} b>c, a d {}.

The same selector is allowed to repeat in the following circumstances:

  • It is used in different selector lists, e.g. a {} a, b {}.
  • The duplicates are determined to originate in different stylesheets, e.g. you have concatenated or compiled files in a way that produces sourcemaps for PostCSS to read, e.g. postcss-import.
  • The duplicates are in rules with different parent nodes, e.g. inside and outside of a media query.

This rule resolves nested selectors. So a b {} a { & b {} } counts as a problem, because the resolved selectors end up with a duplicate.

The message secondary option can accept the arguments of this rule.

Options

true

The following patterns are considered problems:

.foo,
.bar,
.foo {}
.foo {}
.bar {}
.foo {}
.foo .bar {}
.bar {}
.foo .bar {}
@media (min-width: 10px) {
.foo {}
.foo {}
}
.foo, .bar {}
.bar, .foo {}
a .foo, b + .bar {}
b+.bar,
a
.foo {}
a b {}
a {
& b {}
}

The following patterns are not considered problems:

.foo {}
@media (min-width: 10px) {
.foo {}
}
.foo {
.foo {}
}
.foo {}
.bar {}
.foo .bar {}
.bar .foo {}
a b {}
a {
& b,
& c {}
}

Optional secondary options

disallowInList: true | false (default: false)

This option will also disallow duplicate selectors within selector lists.

For example, with true.

The following patterns are considered problems:

input, textarea {
border: 2px;
}
textarea {
border: 1px;
}