Why does Bricks write the same CSS rule multiple times?

[FranklyCo]

Hey Bricks Family!

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that Bricks will sometimes store and serve the exact same CSS rules multiple times. Is this to be expected?

I’m assuming this is due to repeated elements on a page but it seems redundant and wasteful for files being served. Any thoughts on this?

Perhaps I’m missing a setting or documentation details on how to disable this.

[robertobze]

I noticed the same and wondered too! would like to hear from the devs on this.

[markballard]

I searched for duplicate css and found this post which sounds like it could be a related issue that they are working on

WIP: Echo a template shortcode duplicate all the inline CSS on the page

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