diff --git a/.changeset/afraid-mirrors-tease.md b/.changeset/afraid-mirrors-tease.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5d0c318ef836
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/afraid-mirrors-tease.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"astro": patch
+---
+
+Skips adding CSS dependencies of CSS Vite modules as style tags in the HTML
diff --git a/packages/astro/src/vite-plugin-astro-server/vite.ts b/packages/astro/src/vite-plugin-astro-server/vite.ts
index 7a25a71a5711..613a314beb0e 100644
--- a/packages/astro/src/vite-plugin-astro-server/vite.ts
+++ b/packages/astro/src/vite-plugin-astro-server/vite.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,15 @@ export async function* crawlGraph(
 		}
 		if (id === entry.id) {
 			scanned.add(id);
-			const entryIsStyle = isCSSRequest(id);
+
+			// CSS requests `importedModules` are usually from `@import`, but we don't really need
+			// to crawl into those as the `@import` code are already inlined into this `id`.
+			// If CSS requests `importedModules` contain non-CSS files, e.g. Tailwind might add HMR
+			// dependencies as `importedModules`, we should also skip them as they aren't really
+			// imported. Without this, every hoisted script in the project is added to every page!
+			if (isCSSRequest(id)) {
+				continue
+			}
 
 			for (const importedModule of entry.importedModules) {
 				if (!importedModule.id) continue;
@@ -54,13 +62,6 @@ export async function* crawlGraph(
 				// NOTE: Cannot use `new URL()` here because not all IDs will be valid paths.
 				// For example, `virtual:image-loader` if you don't have the plugin installed.
 				const importedModulePathname = importedModule.id.replace(STRIP_QUERY_PARAMS_REGEX, '');
-				// If the entry is a style, skip any modules that are not also styles.
-				// Tools like Tailwind might add HMR dependencies as `importedModules`
-				// but we should skip them--they aren't really imported. Without this,
-				// every hoisted script in the project is added to every page!
-				if (entryIsStyle && !isCSSRequest(importedModulePathname)) {
-					continue;
-				}
 
 				const isFileTypeNeedingSSR = fileExtensionsToSSR.has(npath.extname(importedModulePathname));
 				// A propagation stopping point is a module with the ?astroPropagatedAssets flag.