Style queries allow developers to query a parent element's style values using the @container rule. In Chrome 111, style queries for CSS custom properties are landing stable. Learn how to get started with them.

Style queries will unlock many doors. An ability to alternate a value of any variable that I presented in my previous article might seem to be trivial by itself, but what if there is a hidden depth in how we can utilize it? One interesting case is the ability to emulate `inherit()` — a way to access the previous state of a custom property.