Error check: "expected selector X to come before Y"

Phssthpok · 01-10-2026, 10:17 AM

The "Check books" error for malordered CSS rules says:

Expected selector "X" to come before selector "Y"

However, the associated details only give the position of rule X, not rule Y (compare with the error for mismatched tags, which gives the position of both tags).

Would it be possible to show the position of both selectors in the error message to make it easier to locate Y? (Or better still, since the checker can obviously recognise the expected order of rules, have an autofix option which reorders all the rules automatically?)

kovidgoyal · 01-11-2026, 12:15 AM

These come from a third party library (stylelint) not calibre code, so I'm afraid not.

Phssthpok · 01-11-2026, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

These come from a third party library (stylelint) not calibre code, so I'm afraid not.

Bah. Oh well. How a way to paste the 2nd rulespec from the message on the right into the "find" box so that special characters like [...] and (...) and ^= are escaped? As it is I have to select, copy, paste, and then look for specials and escape them manually.

foosion · 01-12-2026, 02:43 PM

How does it hurt to have Expected selector "X" to come before selector "Y"?

From what I can tell books render without issue with this.

Karellen · 01-12-2026, 02:56 PM

Some declarations might need to be inherited or replaced with a different value.

kovidgoyal · 01-13-2026, 07:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phssthpok

Bah. Oh well. How a way to paste the 2nd rulespec from the message on the right into the "find" box so that special characters like [...] and (...) and ^= are escaped? As it is I have to select, copy, paste, and then look for specials and escape them manually.

Search in text mode rather than regex and special characters in the search expression are automatically replaced.

01-10-2026, 10:17 AM	#1
Phssthpok Age improves with wine. Posts: 609 Karma: 95229 Join Date: Nov 2014 Device: Kindle Oasis, Kobo Libra II	Error check: "expected selector X to come before Y" The "Check books" error for malordered CSS rules says: Expected selector "X" to come before selector "Y" However, the associated details only give the position of rule X, not rule Y (compare with the error for mismatched tags, which gives the position of both tags). Would it be possible to show the position of both selectors in the error message to make it easier to locate Y? (Or better still, since the checker can obviously recognise the expected order of rules, have an autofix option which reorders all the rules automatically?)

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01-11-2026, 12:15 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,851 Karma: 28586150 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	These come from a third party library (stylelint) not calibre code, so I'm afraid not.

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