Add section about never matching sibling selectors after :scope

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MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Selectors/:scope

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

none, this probably would be in a new section

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

No warnings about using sibling selectors after :scope

What did you expect to see?

If you write a selector like :scope ~ *, the rule will never match
In Firefox, such selectors generate a warning (that will be exposed in the Inspector) :
https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/rev/e7114bcf28158b46e516178c06201e4849201eba/servo/components/style/error_reporting.rs#285-287

/// `:scope` can have 3 meanings, but in all cases, the relationship is defined strictly by an ancestor-descendant
/// relationship. This means that any presence of sibling selectors to its right would make it never match.

It would be nice to have a section explaining this

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

Firefox bugs that added the warning: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882379

Do you have anything more you want to share?

No response

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Page report details

• Folder: en-us/web/css/reference/selectors/_colon_scope
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Selectors/:scope
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/css/reference/selectors/_colon_scope/index.md
• Last commit: 28e834c
• Document last modified: 2025-12-09T09:31:49.000Z

[MUSKANNISHAD]

Hi, I’d like to work on this. I can add a short section explaining why sibling selectors after :scope never match, with an example and reference to the Firefox warning.

[Iyeroo]

I would love to fix this can I raise a PR to it