The problem is not with the &quot;&gt;&quot;, but with the specificity in general!<p>The selector &quot;.search-form .submit&quot; has 2 levels if specificity. What I suggest is using 1 level of specificity like &quot;.search-form__submit&quot;<p>Nesting is guilty here because of the ease it is to use it wrongly and create selectors with high levels of specificity