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    Indentation, in my experience, should match syntax, not semantics. By indenting further, many coders might briefly think that it's somehow part of the same syntactical rule that was above, decreasing code readability even if it's meant to improve semantic readability. LESS, a CSS transpiler, happens to make this easier by actually providing special syntax for the above situation, in which the first curly brace does not close. Commented Apr 7, 2016 at 13:38
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    There css preprocessors that support nesting, which is similar to what you want, but without being as ugly. Commented Apr 7, 2016 at 13:42