diff --git a/stylelint.config.js b/stylelint.config.js
index 53feeb8810..44953fd3e6 100644
--- a/stylelint.config.js
+++ b/stylelint.config.js
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ module.exports = {
             "/^(border(-top|-right|-bottom|-left)?|outline)(-width)?$/": [
                 /\b(thin|medium|thick)\b/,
             ],
+            // no quotation marks around grid-area; use
+            // `grid-area: my_area`, not `grid-area: "my_area"`
+            "grid-area": [/".*"/],
         },
         "function-disallowed-list": [
             // We use hsl instead of rgb