diff --git a/.github/workflows/stylelint.yml b/.github/workflows/stylelint.yml
index 3547c7d357..d93d0fc6c0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/stylelint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/stylelint.yml
@@ -43,5 +43,14 @@ jobs:
         if: steps.cache-npm.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
         run: npm ci --include=dev --legacy-peer-deps
 
+      - name: Set up WP environment
+        run: npm run env start
+
+      # css/formidableforms.css is a runtime-rendered stylesheet (see
+      # FrmStyle::save_settings()), not a build artifact, so there's nothing
+      # on disk for stylelint to check without this.
+      - name: Generate default stylesheet for lint coverage
+        run: npx wp-env run cli wp eval 'require FrmAppHelper::plugin_path() . "/bin/generate-default-stylesheet.php";'
+
       - name: Run Stylelint
         run: npx stylelint "**/*.{css,scss}"
diff --git a/.stylelintrc.json b/.stylelintrc.json
index 443983e4c1..0f87a25fbf 100644
--- a/.stylelintrc.json
+++ b/.stylelintrc.json
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
 		"**/frm-legacy-paypal.css",
 		"**/font_icons.css",
 		"**/frm_testing_mode.css",
-		"**/welcome-tour.css",
-		"**/css/formidableforms.css"
+		"**/welcome-tour.css"
 	],
 	"rules": {
 		"no-descending-specificity": null,
@@ -32,5 +31,19 @@
 		"font-family-no-missing-generic-family-keyword": null,
 		"scss/at-import-no-partial-leading-underscore": null,
 		"scss/load-no-partial-leading-underscore": null
-	}
+	},
+	"overrides": [
+		{
+			"files": ["**/css/formidableforms.css"],
+			"rules": {
+				"rule-empty-line-before": null,
+				"at-rule-empty-line-before": null,
+				"selector-attribute-quotes": null,
+				"selector-pseudo-element-colon-notation": null,
+				"color-hex-length": null,
+				"font-weight-notation": null,
+				"length-zero-no-unit": null
+			}
+		}
+	]
 }
diff --git a/bin/generate-default-stylesheet.php b/bin/generate-default-stylesheet.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d751c27d96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/generate-default-stylesheet.php
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Writes css/formidableforms.css so stylelint has a real generated file to
+ * check instead of an ignored one, using the plugin's own static-file
+ * generator (FrmStyle::save_settings(), the same method a real save of the
+ * Styles settings triggers) rather than reimplementing its render logic.
+ *
+ * Usage: wp eval 'require FrmAppHelper::plugin_path() . "/bin/generate-default-stylesheet.php";'
+ * (not `wp eval-file` directly - wp-env's cli container's working
+ * directory is the WordPress root, not this plugin's checkout, and the
+ * mounted plugin folder name isn't guaranteed.)
+ */
+
+if ( ! defined( 'WP_CLI' ) || ! WP_CLI ) {
+	return;
+}
+
+( new FrmStyle() )->save_settings();
+
+// save_settings() writes wherever add_css_to_uploads_dir() resolves to,
+// which can be outside this checkout (wp_upload_dir()) depending on file
+// mod permissions - confirm the file actually landed where stylelint
+// will look, rather than letting a silent miss pass as a green run.
+$target = FrmStyle::get_generated_css_file_path( FrmStyle::add_css_to_uploads_dir() ) . '/' . FrmStylesController::get_file_name();
+
+if ( ! is_file( $target ) || ! filesize( $target ) ) {
+	WP_CLI::error( "No stylesheet generated at $target" );
+}
+
+// Several of the style templates gate a selector's only declarations behind
+// a single `! empty( $defaults[...] )` check with no fallback (e.g. a
+// font-family rule that only prints when a custom font is set) - under the
+// stock defaults that selector renders with nothing between its braces.
+// That's inert in real output either way, but stylelint's block-no-empty
+// has no way to tell "false setting produced this on purpose" from "typo'd
+// selector" without evaluating the template's PHP, so strip empty rules
+// (including any block left empty once its only content is removed, e.g. a
+// media query whose sole rule was itself emptied) before lint sees the file.
+$css = file_get_contents( $target );
+do {
+	$before = $css;
+	$css    = preg_replace( '/[^{}]*\{\}/', '', $css );
+} while ( $css !== $before );
+file_put_contents( $target, $css );
+
+WP_CLI::success( "Generated $target" );