diff --git a/resources/css/components/collapse.css b/resources/css/components/collapse.css
index 492f2286..114ede6d 100644
--- a/resources/css/components/collapse.css
+++ b/resources/css/components/collapse.css
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
  * (foundation/interaction.css) sit on the summary; this file only refines their target — the
  * 48px summary height, the icon and chevron colour — never their opacities or ring.
  *
- * Icon-to-title and title-to-chevron gaps are 12px, midway between two spacing steps
- * (`space100` 8px, `space200` 16px); written as their average rather than a bare literal so the
- * value still comes from the scale.
+ * Icon-to-title and title-to-chevron gaps are a literal 12px: the measurement scale has no 12
+ * (`space125` is 10px), as alert.css's gap. Every part is matched as its own `<details>`' child, so
+ * a collapse nested in a filled one takes neither its padding nor its turned chevron.
  */
 
 @layer material.reset, material.tokens, material.base, material.layout, material.components, material.text, material.visibility;
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
         display: flex;
         min-block-size: var(--md-sys-measurement-space600);
         align-items: center;
-        gap: calc((var(--md-sys-measurement-space100) + var(--md-sys-measurement-space200)) / 2);
+        gap: 12px;
         border-radius: inherit;
         cursor: pointer;
         list-style-type: none;
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
         }
     }
 
-    [data-md-collapse][data-md-variant='filled'] [data-md-collapse-summary] {
+    [data-md-collapse][data-md-variant='filled'] > [data-md-collapse-summary] {
         padding-inline: var(--md-sys-measurement-space200);
     }
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
         transition: rotate var(--md-sys-motion-spatial-fast-duration) var(--md-sys-motion-spatial-fast);
     }
 
-    [data-md-collapse][open] [data-md-collapse-chevron] {
+    [data-md-collapse][open] > [data-md-collapse-summary] > [data-md-collapse-chevron] {
         rotate: 180deg;
     }
 
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
         letter-spacing: var(--md-sys-typescale-body-md-tracking);
     }
 
-    [data-md-collapse][data-md-variant='filled'] [data-md-collapse-body] {
+    [data-md-collapse][data-md-variant='filled'] > [data-md-collapse-body] {
         padding-inline: var(--md-sys-measurement-space200);
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Components/CollapseTest.php b/tests/Feature/Components/CollapseTest.php
index f72e0cc1..2ca7d47d 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Components/CollapseTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Components/CollapseTest.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 use Livewire\Component;
 use Livewire\Livewire;
+use NoNameWeb\LivewireMaterial\Tests\Support\ComponentStylesheet;
 
 it('discloses on the native details element, kept open through a morph', function () {
     $html = (string) $this->blade('<x-collapse title="How long do links last?" icon="schedule" open variant="filled">Until the expiry.</x-collapse>');
@@ -65,3 +66,12 @@ it('entangles its open state with a Livewire property and renders open as the pr
 
     expect(preg_match('/\sopen\s/', $tag[0]) === 1)->toBe($fineTuning);
 })->with(['open' => true, 'closed' => false]);
+
+it('draws a filled collapse\'s padding and an open one\'s chevron on its own parts, never a nested collapse\'s', function () {
+    $css = ComponentStylesheet::read('collapse');
+
+    expect($css->declarations("[data-md-collapse][data-md-variant='filled'] > [data-md-collapse-summary]"))->toBe(['padding-inline' => 'var(--md-sys-measurement-space200)'])
+        ->and($css->declarations("[data-md-collapse][data-md-variant='filled'] > [data-md-collapse-body]"))->toBe(['padding-inline' => 'var(--md-sys-measurement-space200)'])
+        ->and($css->declarations('[data-md-collapse][open] > [data-md-collapse-summary] > [data-md-collapse-chevron]'))->toBe(['rotate' => '180deg'])
+        ->and($css->declarations('[data-md-collapse-summary]'))->toHaveKey('gap', '12px');
+});