# Search all CSS and CSS drop down selector
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-all-css-and-css-drop-down-selector/394265
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 24, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-all-css-and-css-drop-down-selector/394265 "2026-01-24T22:51:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@hipp0](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hipp0)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-all-css-and-css-drop-down-selector/394265/1 "2026-01-24T22:51:35Z")
Selecting the specific CSS from inside any other CSS will speed things up a lot as I have to keep pressing back to search through the list.
Ability to search for a specific line of code would be very helpful to see where I am changing it.
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### Author:  [@ToddZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ToddZ)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2026, 5:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-all-css-and-css-drop-down-selector/394265/3 "2026-01-25T05:56:35Z")
This seems a little confusing, so just for clarity: are you saying that you’d like the components list filter:
…to not just look at component name & description, but also the full contents of any components with custom CSS?
(Side note: as near as I can tell, the filter currently acts only on component names, and doesn’t return anything based on words in descriptions. So that bit might warrant a bug report.)
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### Author:  [@hipp0](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hipp0)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2026, 6:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-all-css-and-css-drop-down-selector/394265/4 "2026-01-25T06:12:00Z")
Yes, to search all your components/css for specific search terms.
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### Author:  [@ToddZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ToddZ)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2026, 6:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-all-css-and-css-drop-down-selector/394265/5 "2026-01-25T06:27:53Z")
Hm. Sounds tricky. Components come in many forms, and lots have nothing to do with CSS.
Are you creating a lot of separate components for your CSS customizations? Just curious, as I’ve never had issues navigating mine. I keep them all in a single custom CSS component, heavily commented with timestamps…
> **CSS sample**
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### Author:  [@hipp0](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hipp0)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2026, 10:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-all-css-and-css-drop-down-selector/394265/6 "2026-01-25T22:53:44Z")
Maybe the component section and CSS section need to be separated so they aren’t confused.
I have my CSS organized f or the areas of the website, so I don’t need to scroll through a bunch of stuff.
Like any changes to Sidebar is in the sidebar component, etc.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2026, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-all-css-and-css-drop-down-selector/394265/7 "2026-01-26T10:19:42Z")
If you have that many CSS changes, it may make sense to create one theme component where you use separate files to organize your changes by area.
> [@Theme Developer Tutorial: 3. CSS in Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/theme-developer-tutorial-3-css-in-themes/357798/1):
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> for more complex situations, you can put additional scss in files like `/stylesheets/my-styles.scss`, and import from `common.scss` like `@import "my-styles";`