| 1 | # Syntaxes
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| 3 | 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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| 5 | These styling languages can be embedded within other languages too. For example:
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| 7 | - HTML `<style>` tags
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| 8 | - markdown fences
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| 9 | - JavaScript template literals
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| 11 | We aim to support all these use cases in stylelint, but it's a complicated endeavor.
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| 13 | 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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| 15 | - underpins all the other styling languages
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| 16 | - is best understood by rules built into stylelint
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| 18 | 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.
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