diff --git a/client/src/extension.ts b/client/src/extension.ts
index f6db496..42d1dcf 100644
--- a/client/src/extension.ts
+++ b/client/src/extension.ts
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ export function activate(context: ExtensionContext): void {
   const peekToExclude: Array<string> = config.get(
     "peekToExclude"
   ) as Array<string>;
+  const peekToLinkedOnly: boolean = config.get(
+    "peekToLinkedOnly",
+    false
+  ) as boolean;
 
   function didOpenTextDocument(document: TextDocument): void {
     try {
@@ -159,6 +163,7 @@ export function activate(context: ExtensionContext): void {
           initializationOptions: {
             stylesheets: [],
             peekFromLanguages,
+            peekToLinkedOnly,
           },
           diagnosticCollectionName: "css-peek",
           outputChannel,
@@ -219,6 +224,7 @@ export function activate(context: ExtensionContext): void {
                 fsPath: u.fsPath,
               })),
               peekFromLanguages,
+              peekToLinkedOnly,
             },
             workspaceFolder: folder,
             outputChannel,
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1e49537..bf60742 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -113,6 +113,12 @@
           },
           "description": "A list of file globs that filters out peekable files"
         },
+        "cssPeek.peekToLinkedOnly": {
+          "scope": "window",
+          "type": "boolean",
+          "default": false,
+          "description": "When enabled, peek targets are restricted to stylesheets that are referenced from the current source file (e.g. via <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"...\"> in HTML or `import './foo.css'` / `@import 'foo.css'` in JS/TS/SCSS). Useful in large monorepos to avoid matching unrelated stylesheets."
+        },
         "cssPeek.trace.server": {
           "scope": "window",
           "type": "string",
diff --git a/server/src/core/findDefinition.ts b/server/src/core/findDefinition.ts
index b88c286..dae0bad 100644
--- a/server/src/core/findDefinition.ts
+++ b/server/src/core/findDefinition.ts
@@ -68,9 +68,14 @@ export function findSymbols(
   options: {
     peekVariables?: boolean;
     embeddedStylesheetMap?: StylesheetMap;
+    allowedUris?: Set<string>;
   } = {}
 ): SymbolInformation[] {
-  const { peekVariables = true, embeddedStylesheetMap = {} } = options;
+  const {
+    peekVariables = true,
+    embeddedStylesheetMap = {},
+    allowedUris,
+  } = options;
   const foundSymbols: SymbolInformation[] = [];
 
   // Merge the persistent stylesheet cache with any in-memory embedded
@@ -126,6 +131,9 @@ export function findSymbols(
 
   // Test all the symbols against the RegExp
   Object.keys(combinedMap).forEach((uri) => {
+    if (allowedUris && !allowedUris.has(uri)) {
+      return;
+    }
     const styleSheet = combinedMap[uri];
     try {
       let symbols: SymbolInformation[];
@@ -191,6 +199,7 @@ export function findDefinition(
   options: {
     peekVariables?: boolean;
     embeddedStylesheetMap?: StylesheetMap;
+    allowedUris?: Set<string>;
   } = {}
 ): Location[] {
   return findSymbols(selector, stylesheetMap, options).map(
diff --git a/server/src/server.ts b/server/src/server.ts
index 93f962e..3129032 100644
--- a/server/src/server.ts
+++ b/server/src/server.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import {
   extractEmbeddedStylesheets,
   hasEmbeddedStyles,
 } from "./core/embeddedStyles";
+import { findLinkedStylesheets } from "./utils/linkedStylesheets";
 import { create } from "./logger";
 
 // Creates the LSP connection
@@ -137,6 +138,7 @@ interface Settings {
   peekVariables: boolean;
   peekFromLanguages: string[];
   peekToExclude: string[];
+  peekToLinkedOnly: boolean;
 }
 connection.onInitialized(() => {
   if (hasConfigurationCapability) {
@@ -158,6 +160,7 @@ const defaultSettings: Settings = {
   peekVariables: true,
   peekFromLanguages: ["html"],
   peekToExclude: ["**/node_modules/**", "**/bower_components/**"],
+  peekToLinkedOnly: false,
 };
 let globalSettings: Settings = defaultSettings;
 
@@ -241,9 +244,14 @@ connection.onDefinition(
       ? extractEmbeddedStylesheets(document)
       : {};
 
+    const allowedUris = settings.peekToLinkedOnly
+      ? new Set(findLinkedStylesheets(document))
+      : undefined;
+
     return findDefinition(selector, styleSheets, {
       peekVariables: settings.peekVariables,
       embeddedStylesheetMap,
+      allowedUris,
     });
   }
 );
diff --git a/server/src/utils/linkedStylesheets.ts b/server/src/utils/linkedStylesheets.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d3438c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/utils/linkedStylesheets.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+import { URL } from "url";
+import { TextDocument } from "vscode-languageserver-textdocument";
+
+/**
+ * Parse a source document for explicit stylesheet references and resolve them
+ * to absolute URIs (string form).
+ *
+ * Supported syntaxes (intentionally simple string matching, not a full parser):
+ *   - HTML / templating: <link rel="stylesheet" href="..."> (any attribute order)
+ *   - JS / TS / JSX / TSX / Svelte / Vue: import './foo.css' / import "foo.css"
+ *   - CSS / SCSS / LESS: @import 'foo.css' / @import url('foo.css')
+ *
+ * Limitations: no CSS-in-JS, no Sass `@use` / `@forward`, no dynamic imports,
+ * no URL/module resolution through bundler aliases, no `<style src="...">`,
+ * and no following of transitive `@import`s.
+ */
+export function findLinkedStylesheets(document: TextDocument): string[] {
+  const text = document.getText();
+  const baseUri = document.uri;
+  const refs = new Set<string>();
+
+  const addRef = (raw: string | undefined | null) => {
+    if (!raw) return;
+    const ref = raw.trim();
+    if (!ref) return;
+    const resolved = resolveStylesheetUri(baseUri, ref);
+    if (resolved) refs.add(resolved);
+  };
+
+  // <link rel="stylesheet" href="...">  (rel and href can be in any order)
+  const linkTagRe = /<link\b[^>]*>/gi;
+  let linkMatch: RegExpExecArray | null;
+  while ((linkMatch = linkTagRe.exec(text)) !== null) {
+    const tag = linkMatch[0];
+    if (!/\brel\s*=\s*["']?\s*stylesheet\b/i.test(tag)) continue;
+    const hrefMatch = /\bhref\s*=\s*("([^"]*)"|'([^']*)')/i.exec(tag);
+    if (hrefMatch) addRef(hrefMatch[2] ?? hrefMatch[3]);
+  }
+
+  // import './foo.css' / import "foo.scss" (also handles `import x from './foo.css'`)
+  // The negative lookahead `(?!\s*\()` skips dynamic imports like `import('./foo.css')`,
+  // which are intentionally unsupported (see the doc comment above). Optional
+  // `?query` / `#fragment` suffixes are tolerated and stripped in resolution.
+  const importRe =
+    /\bimport\b(?!\s*\()[^'";()]*?["']([^"']+\.(?:css|scss|sass|less)(?:[?#][^"']*)?)["']/gi;
+  let importMatch: RegExpExecArray | null;
+  while ((importMatch = importRe.exec(text)) !== null) {
+    addRef(importMatch[1]);
+  }
+
+  // @import 'foo.css' / @import url('foo.css') / @import url(foo.css)
+  // Optional `?query` / `#fragment` suffixes are tolerated; resolution strips them.
+  const atImportRe =
+    /@import\s+(?:url\(\s*)?["']?([^"')\s;]+\.(?:css|scss|sass|less)(?:[?#][^"')\s;]*)?)["']?\s*\)?/gi;
+  let atImportMatch: RegExpExecArray | null;
+  while ((atImportMatch = atImportRe.exec(text)) !== null) {
+    addRef(atImportMatch[1]);
+  }
+
+  return Array.from(refs);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve a stylesheet reference (as written in source) against the source
+ * document's URI. Returns an absolute URI string, or null if it can't be
+ * resolved (e.g. bare module imports like `import 'normalize.css'`).
+ */
+function resolveStylesheetUri(baseUri: string, ref: string): string | null {
+  // Absolute URL (http://, https://, file://, vscode-resource:, etc.)
+  if (/^[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:\/\//i.test(ref)) {
+    try {
+      return new URL(ref).toString();
+    } catch {
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Protocol-relative URL — can't resolve without a host context.
+  if (ref.startsWith("//")) return null;
+
+  // Bare specifier (no leading ./ ../ /) — likely a node_modules import. Skip.
+  if (!ref.startsWith("/") && !ref.startsWith("./") && !ref.startsWith("../")) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  // Strip query string and fragment from local refs so that cache-busted or
+  // fragment-qualified references (e.g. `./app.css?v=1`, `./icons.svg#id`)
+  // resolve to the underlying file URI, matching how the stylesheet map keys
+  // its entries.
+  const cleanRef = ref.replace(/[?#].*$/, "");
+  if (!cleanRef) return null;
+
+  try {
+    return new URL(cleanRef, baseUri).toString();
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tests/fixture/linked.css b/tests/fixture/linked.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7346899
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixture/linked.css
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+.linked-only-class {
+  color: red;
+}
diff --git a/tests/fixture/linked.html b/tests/fixture/linked.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc2879e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixture/linked.html
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./linked.css" />
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <span class="linked-only-class"></span>
+  </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/tests/fixture/unlinked.css b/tests/fixture/unlinked.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b0d030
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixture/unlinked.css
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+.linked-only-class {
+  color: blue;
+}
diff --git a/tests/src/linkedOnly.test.ts b/tests/src/linkedOnly.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20d748f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/src/linkedOnly.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+import * as assert from "assert";
+import * as vscode from "vscode";
+import { TextDocument as ServerTextDocument } from "vscode-languageserver";
+
+import { findDefinition } from "../../server/out/core/findDefinition";
+import { findLinkedStylesheets } from "../../server/out/utils/linkedStylesheets";
+import { create } from "../../server/out/logger";
+import type { StylesheetMap, Selector } from "../../server/src/types";
+
+async function loadServerDoc(file: string): Promise<ServerTextDocument> {
+  const vscodeDoc = await vscode.workspace.openTextDocument(
+    vscode.Uri.joinPath(vscode.workspace.workspaceFolders![0].uri, file)
+  );
+  return ServerTextDocument.create(
+    vscodeDoc.uri.toString(),
+    vscodeDoc.languageId,
+    vscodeDoc.version,
+    vscodeDoc.getText()
+  );
+}
+
+async function loadStylesheets(files: string[]): Promise<StylesheetMap> {
+  const map: StylesheetMap = {};
+  for (const file of files) {
+    const doc = await loadServerDoc(file);
+    map[doc.uri] = { document: doc };
+  }
+  return map;
+}
+
+suite("findDefinition: peekToLinkedOnly", () => {
+  create(console as any);
+  let map: StylesheetMap;
+  let sourceDoc: ServerTextDocument;
+  let linkedUri: string;
+  let unlinkedUri: string;
+
+  suiteSetup(async () => {
+    map = await loadStylesheets(["linked.css", "unlinked.css"]);
+    sourceDoc = await loadServerDoc("linked.html");
+    linkedUri = (await loadServerDoc("linked.css")).uri;
+    unlinkedUri = (await loadServerDoc("unlinked.css")).uri;
+  });
+
+  test("without restriction, both files are matched", () => {
+    const selector: Selector = {
+      attribute: "class",
+      value: "linked-only-class",
+    };
+    const defs = findDefinition(selector, map);
+    assert.strictEqual(defs.length, 2);
+  });
+
+  test("findLinkedStylesheets discovers <link rel=stylesheet href>", () => {
+    const refs = findLinkedStylesheets(sourceDoc);
+    assert.ok(
+      refs.includes(linkedUri),
+      `expected refs to include ${linkedUri}, got ${JSON.stringify(refs)}`
+    );
+    assert.ok(
+      !refs.includes(unlinkedUri),
+      `expected refs to NOT include ${unlinkedUri}, got ${JSON.stringify(refs)}`
+    );
+  });
+
+  test("restriction limits defs to linked stylesheet only", () => {
+    const selector: Selector = {
+      attribute: "class",
+      value: "linked-only-class",
+    };
+    const allowed = new Set(findLinkedStylesheets(sourceDoc));
+    const defs = findDefinition(selector, map, { allowedUris: allowed });
+    assert.strictEqual(defs.length, 1);
+    assert.strictEqual(defs[0].uri, linkedUri);
+  });
+
+  test("empty allowed set produces zero defs", () => {
+    const selector: Selector = {
+      attribute: "class",
+      value: "linked-only-class",
+    };
+    const defs = findDefinition(selector, map, {
+      allowedUris: new Set<string>(),
+    });
+    assert.strictEqual(defs.length, 0);
+  });
+});
+
+suite("findLinkedStylesheets: parsing", () => {
+  function makeDoc(uri: string, languageId: string, text: string) {
+    return ServerTextDocument.create(uri, languageId, 1, text);
+  }
+
+  test("parses JS imports of CSS modules", () => {
+    const doc = makeDoc(
+      "file:///workspace/src/component.ts",
+      "typescript",
+      `import './local.css';\nimport styles from "./other.scss";\nimport 'normalize.css';`
+    );
+    const refs = findLinkedStylesheets(doc);
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(refs.sort(), [
+      "file:///workspace/src/local.css",
+      "file:///workspace/src/other.scss",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  test("parses CSS @import", () => {
+    const doc = makeDoc(
+      "file:///workspace/src/main.scss",
+      "scss",
+      `@import './partial.scss';\n@import url('./other.css');\n@import 'bare.css';`
+    );
+    const refs = findLinkedStylesheets(doc);
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(refs.sort(), [
+      "file:///workspace/src/other.css",
+      "file:///workspace/src/partial.scss",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  test("ignores <link> tags without rel=stylesheet", () => {
+    const doc = makeDoc(
+      "file:///workspace/page.html",
+      "html",
+      `<link rel="icon" href="./favicon.css">\n<link rel="stylesheet" href="./real.css">`
+    );
+    const refs = findLinkedStylesheets(doc);
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(refs, ["file:///workspace/real.css"]);
+  });
+
+  test("ignores dynamic import() expressions", () => {
+    const doc = makeDoc(
+      "file:///workspace/src/component.ts",
+      "typescript",
+      `import('./theme.css');\nawait import("./other.scss");\nimport './static.css';`
+    );
+    const refs = findLinkedStylesheets(doc);
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(refs, ["file:///workspace/src/static.css"]);
+  });
+
+  test("strips query strings and fragments from local refs", () => {
+    const doc = makeDoc(
+      "file:///workspace/src/component.ts",
+      "typescript",
+      `import './app.css?v=1';\nimport './themed.scss#dark';`
+    );
+    const refs = findLinkedStylesheets(doc);
+    assert.deepStrictEqual(refs.sort(), [
+      "file:///workspace/src/app.css",
+      "file:///workspace/src/themed.scss",
+    ]);
+  });
+});