| # Syntaxes |
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| There are many styling languages, ranging from CSS language extensions like SCSS to entirely different notations, e.g. CSS-in-JS objects. |
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| These styling languages can be embedded within other languages too. For example: |
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| - HTML `<style>` tags |
| - markdown fences |
| - JavaScript template literals |
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| We aim to support all these use cases in stylelint, but it's a complicated endeavor. |
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| We lean on [PostCSS syntaxes](https://github.com/postcss/postcss#syntaxes) to help us with this task. We use them to transform these languages into something that resembles CSS, which is the language that: |
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| - underpins all the other styling languages |
| - is best understood by rules built into stylelint |
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| If you write your styles in anything other than CSS, please consider [contributing to these syntaxes](../developer-guide/syntaxes.md) so that they can remain compatible with stylelint. |
