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Your Inline Critical CSS Is Probably Lying About Your CLS Score

If you run a React + Vite + Tailwind stack with critical CSS inlined for FOUC mitigation, your inline block has to contain the exact same rules as your compiled Tailwind bundle — same selectors, same values, same cascade order. Anything else triggers a second layout pass when the bundle arrives, and...

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