Ensure individual logical property utilities are sorted later than left/right pair utilities (#14777)

Resolves #14772.

This PR fixes an issue where utilities like `ps-2` were sorted earlier
in the generated CSS than `px-3`, causing `ps-2` to not override `px-3`
as expected.

This happened because `px-3` uses `padding-left` and `padding-right`,
and `ps-2` uses `padding-inline-start`, and in `property-order.ts` we
sort those properties as follows:

```js
  ...
  'padding',
  'padding-inline',
  'padding-block',
  'padding-inline-start',
  'padding-inline-end',
  'padding-top',
  'padding-right',
  'padding-bottom',
  'padding-left',
  ...
```

Since `padding-left` and `padding-right` both appear later than
`padding-inline-start`, the `px-3` utility is sorted later in the CSS
since all of its properties are later in the sort order than all of
properties in `ps-2`.

To fix this, I'm using our internal `--tw-sort` property to tell
Tailwind to sort the `px-3` utility as if it used `padding-inline` to
ensure that it's sorted earlier in the CSS.

This PR applies this same fix for the `padding` utilities,
`scroll-margin` utilities, and `scroll-padding` utilities. No changes
have been made to the `margin` utilities because we were already
handling this correctly there.

Here you can see that `pl-2` overrides `px-6` as you'd expect:

<img width="1041" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fb330536-2131-4de8-a584-62edf380148f">

…and now with the change in this PR, `ps-2` also overrides `px-6` as
you'd expect:

<img width="1043" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c6799416-9c80-4fd5-bce4-ea1e4da53968">

---------

Co-authored-by: Adam Wathan <4323180+adamwathan@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: adamwathan

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
-- Nothing yet!
+### Fixed
+
+- Ensure individual logical property utilities are sorted later than left/right pair utilities ([#14777](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/14777))
 
 ## [4.0.0-alpha.29] - 2024-10-23
 

packages/tailwindcss/src/index.test.ts

@@ -674,6 +674,100 @@ describe('sorting', () => {
     `)
   })
 
+  it('should sort individual logical properties later than left/right pairs', async () => {
+    expect(
+      await compileCss(
+        css`
+          @theme {
+            --spacing-1: 1px;
+            --spacing-2: 2px;
+            --spacing-3: 3px;
+          }
+          @tailwind utilities;
+        `,
+        [
+          // scroll-margin
+          'scroll-ms-1',
+          'scroll-me-2',
+          'scroll-mx-3',
+
+          // scroll-padding
+          'scroll-ps-1',
+          'scroll-pe-2',
+          'scroll-px-3',
+
+          // margin
+          'ms-1',
+          'me-2',
+          'mx-3',
+
+          // padding
+          'ps-1',
+          'pe-2',
+          'px-3',
+        ].sort(() => Math.random() - 0.5),
+      ),
+    ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+      ":root {
+        --spacing-1: 1px;
+        --spacing-2: 2px;
+        --spacing-3: 3px;
+      }
+
+      .mx-3 {
+        margin-left: var(--spacing-3, 3px);
+        margin-right: var(--spacing-3, 3px);
+      }
+
+      .ms-1 {
+        margin-inline-start: var(--spacing-1, 1px);
+      }
+
+      .me-2 {
+        margin-inline-end: var(--spacing-2, 2px);
+      }
+
+      .scroll-mx-3 {
+        scroll-margin-left: var(--spacing-3, 3px);
+        scroll-margin-right: var(--spacing-3, 3px);
+      }
+
+      .scroll-ms-1 {
+        scroll-margin-inline-start: var(--spacing-1, 1px);
+      }
+
+      .scroll-me-2 {
+        scroll-margin-inline-end: var(--spacing-2, 2px);
+      }
+
+      .scroll-px-3 {
+        scroll-padding-left: var(--spacing-3, 3px);
+        scroll-padding-right: var(--spacing-3, 3px);
+      }
+
+      .scroll-ps-1 {
+        scroll-padding-inline-start: var(--spacing-1, 1px);
+      }
+
+      .scroll-pe-2 {
+        scroll-padding-inline-end: var(--spacing-2, 2px);
+      }
+
+      .px-3 {
+        padding-left: var(--spacing-3, 3px);
+        padding-right: var(--spacing-3, 3px);
+      }
+
+      .ps-1 {
+        padding-inline-start: var(--spacing-1, 1px);
+      }
+
+      .pe-2 {
+        padding-inline-end: var(--spacing-2, 2px);
+      }"
+    `)
+  })
+
   it('should move variants to the end while sorting', async () => {
     expect(
       await run(

packages/tailwindcss/src/property-order.ts

@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ export default [
   'scroll-snap-align',
   'scroll-snap-stop',
   'scroll-margin',
+  'scroll-margin-inline',
+  'scroll-margin-block',
   'scroll-margin-inline-start',
   'scroll-margin-inline-end',
   'scroll-margin-top',
@@ -107,6 +109,8 @@ export default [
   'scroll-margin-left',
 
   'scroll-padding',
+  'scroll-padding-inline',
+  'scroll-padding-block',
   'scroll-padding-inline-start',
   'scroll-padding-inline-end',
   'scroll-padding-top',

packages/tailwindcss/src/sort.test.ts

@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ function loadDesign() {
 
 const table = [
   // Utilities
-  ['px-3 p-1 py-3', 'p-1 py-3 px-3'],
+  ['py-3 p-1 px-3', 'p-1 px-3 py-3'],
 
   // Utilities with variants
-  ['px-3 focus:hover:p-3 hover:p-1 py-3', 'py-3 px-3 hover:p-1 focus:hover:p-3'],
+  ['px-3 focus:hover:p-3 hover:p-1 py-3', 'px-3 py-3 hover:p-1 focus:hover:p-3'],
 
   // Utilities with important
-  ['px-3 py-4! p-1', 'p-1 py-4! px-3'],
-  ['py-4! px-3 p-1', 'p-1 py-4! px-3'],
+  ['px-3 py-4! p-1', 'p-1 px-3 py-4!'],
+  ['py-4! px-3 p-1', 'p-1 px-3 py-4!'],
 
   // User CSS order is the same and moved to the front
   ['b p-1 a', 'b a p-1'],
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ test('can sort classes deterministically across multiple class lists', async ()
   let classes = [
     [
       'a-class px-3 p-1 b-class py-3 bg-red-500 bg-blue-500',
-      'a-class b-class bg-blue-500 bg-red-500 p-1 py-3 px-3',
+      'a-class b-class bg-blue-500 bg-red-500 p-1 px-3 py-3',
     ],
     [
       'px-3 b-class p-1 py-3 bg-blue-500 a-class bg-red-500',
-      'b-class a-class bg-blue-500 bg-red-500 p-1 py-3 px-3',
+      'b-class a-class bg-blue-500 bg-red-500 p-1 px-3 py-3',
     ],
   ]
 

packages/tailwindcss/src/utilities.ts

@@ -1743,13 +1743,21 @@ export function createUtilities(theme: Theme) {
   functionalUtility('scroll-mx', {
     supportsNegative: true,
     themeKeys: ['--scroll-margin', '--spacing'],
-    handle: (value) => [decl('scroll-margin-left', value), decl('scroll-margin-right', value)],
+    handle: (value) => [
+      decl('--tw-sort', 'scroll-margin-inline'),
+      decl('scroll-margin-left', value),
+      decl('scroll-margin-right', value),
+    ],
   })
 
   functionalUtility('scroll-my', {
     supportsNegative: true,
     themeKeys: ['--scroll-margin', '--spacing'],
-    handle: (value) => [decl('scroll-margin-top', value), decl('scroll-margin-bottom', value)],
+    handle: (value) => [
+      decl('--tw-sort', 'scroll-margin-block'),
+      decl('scroll-margin-top', value),
+      decl('scroll-margin-bottom', value),
+    ],
   })
 
   functionalUtility('scroll-ms', {
@@ -1798,13 +1806,21 @@ export function createUtilities(theme: Theme) {
   functionalUtility('scroll-px', {
     supportsNegative: true,
     themeKeys: ['--scroll-padding', '--spacing'],
-    handle: (value) => [decl('scroll-padding-left', value), decl('scroll-padding-right', value)],
+    handle: (value) => [
+      decl('--tw-sort', 'scroll-padding-inline'),
+      decl('scroll-padding-left', value),
+      decl('scroll-padding-right', value),
+    ],
   })
 
   functionalUtility('scroll-py', {
     supportsNegative: true,
     themeKeys: ['--scroll-padding', '--spacing'],
-    handle: (value) => [decl('scroll-padding-top', value), decl('scroll-padding-bottom', value)],
+    handle: (value) => [
+      decl('--tw-sort', 'scroll-padding-block'),
+      decl('scroll-padding-top', value),
+      decl('scroll-padding-bottom', value),
+    ],
   })
 
   functionalUtility('scroll-ps', {
@@ -2960,12 +2976,20 @@ export function createUtilities(theme: Theme) {
 
   functionalUtility('px', {
     themeKeys: ['--padding', '--spacing'],
-    handle: (value) => [decl('padding-left', value), decl('padding-right', value)],
+    handle: (value) => [
+      decl('--tw-sort', 'padding-inline'),
+      decl('padding-left', value),
+      decl('padding-right', value),
+    ],
   })
 
   functionalUtility('py', {
     themeKeys: ['--padding', '--spacing'],
-    handle: (value) => [decl('padding-top', value), decl('padding-bottom', value)],
+    handle: (value) => [
+      decl('--tw-sort', 'padding-block'),
+      decl('padding-top', value),
+      decl('padding-bottom', value),
+    ],
   })
 
   functionalUtility('pt', {