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What is the purpose of this pull request?

This PR adds the no-unknown-animations rule to report animation names that don't match any @keyframes rule defined in the same source.

What changes did you make? (Give an overview)

  • Added the no-unknown-animations rule for animation and animation-name declarations.
  • Added tests and documentation for the new rule.

Related Issues

fixes #529

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Summary

  • New Features
    • Added a CSS linting rule that reports animation names without matching @keyframes definitions in the stylesheet. It checks shorthand and animation-name declarations, including vendor-prefixed properties and nested rules.
    • Treats quoted and unquoted names equivalently and checks statically identifiable var() fallbacks. Names supplied dynamically cannot be fully checked.
  • Documentation
    • Added usage guidance and examples, explained the rule’s scope, and listed it in the rules table. The rule is not enabled in the recommended configuration.

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Comment thread src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js Outdated
// Helpers
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

const animationPropertyPattern = /^animation(?:-name)?$/iu;

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This should also check for vendored prefixes (e.g. -webkit-animation) as the @keyframes check also does.

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I’ve addressed the issue you pointed out. Thank you!

Comment thread src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js Outdated
/*
* If the value can't be matched against the property grammar,
* its animation name can't be determined reliably. This
* includes dynamic values such as var(). Invalid property

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I think the rule should support checking local resolvable var declarations.
There will be a helper for this but this rule could already check the default value of a var, e.g. "slide-in" in animation: var(--animation-name, "slide-in").

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Thanks for pointing this out. After looking into it, I think it makes more sense for this rule to check values that can be determined statically, rather than trying to fully resolve every var() usage.

For example, var(--animation-name) would still be ignored when its actual value cannot be determined, while cases such as var(--animation-name, "slide-in") could be checked by extracting the statically known animation name from the fallback value.

For resolving local custom property values themselves, I think it would be better not to implement that separately in this PR, and instead make use of the helper you mentioned once it is available. So for this PR, I’m planning to support checking statically resolvable fallback values first.

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I ended up implementing var() handling a little more broadly than I initially described. Even when a value contains var(), the rule now checks fallback values as well as any statically known animation names around it. Actual custom property value resolution is still something I plan to handle later using the helper you mentioned.

One thing I’d like your opinion on is that this implementation re-parses the value using parse() from @eslint/css-tree. Since this does not use the custom parser when customSyntax is configured, I’d like to know whether you think this approach is okay.

Comment thread src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js Outdated
continue;
}

const name = getAnimationName(child);

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The name should not be null as the lexer already checks that it is a string or an identifier. Otherwise a test case for this is missing.

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I removed the null check on the usage side. As you pointed out, the lexer only matches an identifier or a string as <keyframes-name>, so it can't be null in this case.

I kept the check on the @keyframes prelude side, though. This part isn't validated by the lexer, so @keyframes 50% can be parsed as Percentage and @keyframes 1s as Dimension. I also added tests for both cases.

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@DMartens I’ve updated the PR based on the previous feedback. When you have a chance, I’d appreciate it if you could take another look.

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Sorry for the delay.

Comment thread src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js Outdated
}

return {
"Atrule[name=/^(-(o|moz|webkit)-)?keyframes$/i] > AtrulePrelude"(

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"Atrule[name=/^(-(o|moz|webkit)-)?keyframes$/i] > AtrulePrelude"(
"Atrule[name=/^(-(o|ms|moz|webkit)-)?keyframes$/i] > AtrulePrelude"(

The "ms" vendor-prefix is also missing here. Please also add a test case for this.

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Agreed, the ms prefix was missing. I added ms support for both keyframes and animation properties, along with related test cases. Thanks for the review!

Comment thread src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js Outdated
* @param {Array<Object>} varFunctions The `var()` functions to mask.
* @returns {string} The masked value text.
*/
function maskVarFunctions(text, baseOffset, varFunctions) {

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Rather than using this hack, we should not use the lexer to find the animation names (it is okay that the property values may be wrong).

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I simplified the implementation so we no longer validate the entire property value with the lexer just to find animation names. It now identifies statically known animation names directly from the existing AST and only handles var() fallbacks when needed. I also added related tests.

Comment thread src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js Outdated
* @param {Object} node The node to read the children of.
* @returns {Array<Object>} The children of the node.
*/
function getChildren(node) {

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The parser already converts every csstree list to an array.
As such this function is unnecessary and could be replaced with node.children ?? [] as it checks whether the node has children (e.g. may be called with an Identifier)

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Yes, thanks for pointing that out!

Comment thread src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js Outdated

const animationPropertyPattern = /^animation(?:-name)?$/iu;
const animationPropertyPattern =
/^(?:-(?:o|moz|webkit)-)?animation(?:-name)?$/iu;

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/^(?:-(?:o|moz|webkit)-)?animation(?:-name)?$/iu;
/^(?:-(?:o|moz|ms|webkit)-)?animation(?:-name)?$/iu;

The "ms" vendor-prefix is missing. Please also add a test case for this.

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Yes, I added the ms vendor prefix and a test case for it. Thanks!

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Adds the no-unknown-animations rule. It checks statically determinable animation names against keyframe names in the same stylesheet and reports unmatched names. The change also adds tests, rule documentation, and a README entry.

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Unknown animation rule

Layer / File(s) Summary
Animation value parsing and name extraction
src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js
The rule parses animation values, including shorthand components and var() fallbacks, and collects candidate names.
Keyframe matching and rule validation
src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js, tests/rules/no-unknown-animations.test.js
The rule compares collected names with same-stylesheet keyframes after traversal and reports unmatched names. Tests cover matched and unmatched names, prefixes, nested contexts, fallbacks, and report locations.
Rule documentation and registry
docs/rules/no-unknown-animations.md, README.md
The documentation describes the rule’s behavior, examples, options, and limitations. The README lists the rule as not recommended.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Stylesheet
  participant NoUnknownAnimationsRule
  participant Diagnostics
  Stylesheet->>NoUnknownAnimationsRule: provide animation declarations and keyframes
  NoUnknownAnimationsRule->>NoUnknownAnimationsRule: collect names and compare after traversal
  NoUnknownAnimationsRule->>Diagnostics: report names without matching keyframes
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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 04d84

The rule is optional, keeps its analysis within each stylesheet, and has no identified security finding. The available evidence does not support a stronger assurance about all security-relevant behavior.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A consumer must enable this non-recommended rule for its CSS input to affect the new diagnostics; the inspected implementation's output is limited to lint reports.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Parsed stylesheet nodes supply the names checked by the rule; the inspected path compares those names and passes unmatched names and locations to the lint-reporting interface.



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Thank you for applying the requested changes.
I have some more notes for the newly added code.

Comment thread src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js Outdated
/**
* Keywords that `animation-name` accepts in place of an animation name.
*/
const animationNameKeywords = new Set([

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These are not "animationNameKeywords" but CSS-wide keywords.
You should access them via sourceCode.lexer.cssWideKeywords as the user can expand them.

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Got it, thanks! One question: none isn't a CSS-wide keyword, but it's still special for animation-name. Should I keep handling none separately and use sourceCode.lexer.cssWideKeywords for the rest?

Comment thread src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js Outdated
* @returns {Object|null} The parsed value node, or `null` if the fallback
* can't be parsed.
*/
function parseVarFallback(fallback) {

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There should be no need to parse the fallback value.
You can just wrap it as a string (and remove quotes around the value):

({ type: 'String', value: fallback.value })

This allows reusing the rest of the code and using a string ensures it cannot be detected as a CSS-wide keyword.

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I removed the extra fallback parsing and now treat the fallback as a string value instead, trimming and unquoting it before reusing the animation-name extraction logic.

Comment thread src/rules/no-unknown-animations.js Outdated
for (const child of value.children ?? []) {
if (child.type === "Function") {
if (child.name.toLowerCase() === "var") {
const fallback = child.children.find(

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Rather than checking for the "Raw" node, always use third child if it exists.
This should be more future-proof as we may enable parseCustomProperty in the future or a user uses the "tolerant" parsing.

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Good point, thanks! I changed this to always use the third child as the var() fallback when it exists, instead of looking specifically for a Raw node.

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}

return fallback.type === "Value" ? fallback.children : [fallback];

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I don't see any test failing without this return value, can you share the example of such fallbacks and add to the tests also?

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I checked the case you mentioned and added tests for it. Thank you for taking the time to review and pointing out the case I missed!

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