diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 465c062dc8ba..a79f5f245cca 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,11 +12,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Improve types for `resolveConfig` ([#12272](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/12272))
 - Don’t add spaces to negative numbers following a comma ([#12324](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/12324))
 - Don't emit `@config` in CSS when watching via the CLI ([#12327](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/12327))
+- Ensure configured `font-feature-settings` for `mono` are included in Preflight ([#12342](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/12342))
+- Improve candidate detection in minified JS arrays (without spaces) ([#12396](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/12396))
 - [Oxide] Remove `autoprefixer` dependency ([#11315](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/11315))
 - [Oxide] Fix source maps issue resulting in a crash ([#11319](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/11319))
 - [Oxide] Fallback to RegEx based parser when using custom transformers or extractors ([#11335](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/11335))
 - [Oxide] Bump `lightningcss` and reflect related improvements in tests ([#11550](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/11550))
-- Ensure configured `font-feature-settings` for `mono` are included in Preflight ([#12342](https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/pull/12342))
 
 ### Added
 
diff --git a/src/lib/defaultExtractor.js b/src/lib/defaultExtractor.js
index 0751c1acba7e..75ee8af50f81 100644
--- a/src/lib/defaultExtractor.js
+++ b/src/lib/defaultExtractor.js
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ function* buildRegExps(context) {
         regex.any([
           regex.pattern([
             // Arbitrary values
-            /-(?:\w+-)*\[[^\s:]+\]/,
+            /-(?:\w+-)*\[(?:[^\s\[\]]+\[[^\s\[\]]+\])*[^\s:\[\]]+\]/,
 
             // Not immediately followed by an `{[(`
             /(?![{([]])/,
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ function* buildRegExps(context) {
 
           regex.pattern([
             // Arbitrary values
-            /-(?:\w+-)*\[[^\s]+\]/,
+            /-(?:\w+-)*\[(?:[^\s\[\]]+\[[^\s\[\]]+\])*[^\s:\[\]]+\]/,
 
             // Not immediately followed by an `{[(`
             /(?![{([]])/,
diff --git a/tests/parse-candidate-strings.test.js b/tests/parse-candidate-strings.test.js
index 5a9f00c3e5bb..e9fe78c271e2 100644
--- a/tests/parse-candidate-strings.test.js
+++ b/tests/parse-candidate-strings.test.js
@@ -482,5 +482,19 @@ describe.each([
         expect(extractions).toContain(value)
       }
     })
+
+    it.each([
+      ['["min-w-[17rem]","max-w-[17rem]"]', ['min-w-[17rem]', 'max-w-[17rem]']],
+      [
+        '["w-[calc(theme(spacing[2]*-1px))]","h-[calc(theme(spacing[2]*-1px))]"]',
+        ['w-[calc(theme(spacing[2]*-1px))]', 'h-[calc(theme(spacing[2]*-1px))]'],
+      ],
+    ])('should work for issue #12371 (%#)', async (content, expectations) => {
+      let extractions = parse(content)
+
+      for (let value of expectations) {
+        expect(extractions).toContain(value)
+      }
+    })
   })
 })