HN formatting isn't quite markdown: you want a 4-space prefix to identify/format text as code.

my tabs :(

does it look measurably different this way? to me it looks the same but now indented

	▲	manarth 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Looks great now! And thanks for an example with nested CSS, I hadn't seen that outside SASS before, hadn't realised that had made its way into W3C standards :-)