candidate() — tailwindcss Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the candidate() function in utils.ts from the tailwindcss codebase.

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  9d0d9b17_966f_d612_352b_4f788e460f5e -->|calls| 22e232f7_919c_8490_d3d0_2af2fca034d5
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Source Code

integrations/utils.ts lines 535–545

export function candidate(strings: TemplateStringsArray, ...values: any[]) {
  let output: string[] = []
  for (let i = 0; i < strings.length; i++) {
    output.push(strings[i])
    if (i < values.length) {
      output.push(values[i])
    }
  }

  return `.${escape(output.join('').trim())}`
}