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cloneNodeAndShadow no longer clones Comment nodes whose parent is a <style>.

Why (PER-11066)

Since #2393 (1c1d159d, first released in 1.32.8-beta.0), a <style> is cloned through the generic child walk instead of being rewritten from textContent. Lit and other template libraries leave empty marker comments inside a <style> that contains a binding, e.g. html`<style>.grid { ${gridStyle} }</style>` , whose childNodes are #text, #comment, #text, #text, #comment. Those comments are now cloned and serialized as a literal <!----> inside the CSS:

.grid {
    <!---->
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  gap: 16px;
  ...

On replay, CSS tokenizes <!-- / --> as CDO/CDC, and declaration error recovery drops display: flex. gap is then inert, so the customer's cards rendered flush against each other in the snapshot while the live page was fine.

Before #2393 this was masked: the comment-free textContent copy came first in the clone, so the rule applied.

Evidence

The same Lit page was serialized and then replayed with JS off in Chrome:

.grid display gap
live page flex 16px
@percy/dom 1.32.7 flex 16px
@percy/dom 1.32.11 block 0
@percy/dom with this PR flex 16px

The customer's build shows the same thing: head (cli 1.32.11) is 2400px tall and base (cli 1.32.7) is 2640px. The difference is 240px, which is 15 gaps × 16px.

Change

  • packages/dom/src/clone-dom.js: skip COMMENT_NODE children of a style element. The check is case-insensitive, so SVG <style> is covered too. A comment node is never part of the stylesheet (the CSS comes only from the text children), so dropping it can't change anything the browser renders.
  • packages/dom/test/serialize-css.test.js: regression test that builds a <style> with comment children around a rule and asserts the serialized text has no <!-- and equals the live textContent.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed an issue where comments inside <style> elements could be copied into cloned DOMs and interfere with CSS. CSS declarations remain effective, and serialization omits the comment markup while preserving the style element’s text content.

Lit leaves empty marker comments in a <style> that contains a binding.
Since #2393 they are cloned and serialized as a literal <!----> inside the
CSS, which makes the parser drop the following declaration (display:flex
in PER-11066, collapsing a gap layout).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • Storybook captures serialized DOM through page.snapshot(options) in src/utils.js:725-732, making it a direct runtime path affected by this DOM fix. [::percy/percy-storybook::]
  • package.json:87-90 depends on Percy packages at ^1.32.7; yarn.lock:2355-2386 resolves @percy/core and @percy/dom to 1.32.7. A release/update of the transitive Percy packages is needed for Storybook users to receive the fix. [::percy/percy-storybook::]

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568-568: LGTM!

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Cloning skips comment nodes whose parent is a <style> element. A regression test checks that CSS remains effective and serialized style content excludes comment markup.

Changes: Style comment cloning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Skip style comment nodes during cloning
packages/dom/src/clone-dom.js, packages/dom/test/serialize-css.test.js
cloneNodeAndShadow skips comment nodes under <style> elements. The regression test checks CSS effectiveness and serialized style content after empty comments are inserted.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: pranavz28

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f911f

The fix drops stray comment markers from cloned style elements, so replayed CSS keeps declarations like display: flex. No merge-blocking risk was found.

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PR: #2464 • Head: f911f28 • Reviewers: fallback inline checklist (built-in review; no in-scope reviewers installed)

Summary

Skips cloning Comment nodes whose parent is a <style> in cloneNodeAndShadow, so Lit-style <!----> binding markers no longer get serialized into CSS (where CDO/CDC tokens swallowed display: flex), and adds a regression test.

Review Table

Priority Category Check Status Notes
High Security No hardcoded secrets or credentials Pass None introduced
High Security Authentication/authorization checks present N/A Client-side DOM serialization only
High Security Input validation and sanitization Pass Change strictly removes content (comments) from serialized output
High Security No IDOR — resource ownership validated N/A No resource access
High Security No SQL injection (parameterized queries) N/A No DB access
High Correctness Logic is correct, handles edge cases Pass nodeType === 8 short-circuits before parentNode is read, so root/document nodes are safe; case-insensitive match covers HTML STYLE and SVG style. Comment nodes never contribute to textContent, so stylesheet content is unchanged
High Correctness Error handling is explicit, no swallowed exceptions Pass Early return sits inside the existing try/catch; no new error paths
High Correctness No race conditions or concurrency issues N/A Synchronous tree walk
Medium Testing New code has corresponding tests Pass serialize-css.test.js builds a <style> with comment children and asserts no <!-- and equality with live textContent
Medium Testing Error paths and edge cases tested Pass Covers leading/trailing marker comments; SVG <style> not separately tested (covered by same regex)
Medium Testing Existing tests still pass (no regressions) Pass All GitHub checks green incl. Test @percy/dom and @percy/core on f911f28
Medium Performance No N+1 queries or unbounded data fetching Pass O(1) check per node
Medium Performance Long-running tasks use background jobs N/A —
Medium Quality Follows existing codebase patterns Pass Mirrors existing early-return style used for BASE
Medium Quality Changes are focused (single concern) Pass One guard + one test
Low Quality Meaningful names, no dead code Pass —
Low Quality Comments explain why, not what Fail Comment explains the why well, but embeds a ticket id (PER-11066) in source and test name
Low Quality No unnecessary dependencies added Pass None added

Findings

  • File: packages/dom/src/clone-dom.js:68, packages/dom/test/serialize-css.test.js:556
  • Severity: Low
  • Reviewer: fallback inline checklist
  • Issue: Ticket id PER-11066 is embedded in the code comment and test title; ticket references rot and belong in the PR/commit, which already carry it.
  • Suggestion: Drop (PER-11066) from the comment and the it(...) description.

Verdict: PASS

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