- A concept to limit styles to a certain element and its descendants, rather than having them affect an entire document. Native support is provided through the CSS
@scope at-rule. Previously, the scoped attribute for style elements was proposed but never standardized. Frameworks like Vue.js support the concept through their own scoped attribute implementation.
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