HTML & CSS · Senior · Question 74 of 75

Why avoid `@import` inside plain CSS files?

✓Correct answer: Each import is discovered only after the parent file downloads, creating a chain of render-blocking requests
2@import is not supported by browsers
3It disables the cascade

Explanation

Use <link> tags or a bundler that inlines imports at build time. In Sass, @use is compiled away, so this doesn't apply to it.

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