diff --git a/.changeset/wicked-laws-bake.md b/.changeset/wicked-laws-bake.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fe1b973b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/wicked-laws-bake.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@solidjs/start": patch
+---
+
+Fixed virtual module CSS not being collected in vite dev.
diff --git a/apps/fixtures/css/src/components/test.tsx b/apps/fixtures/css/src/components/test.tsx
index 43b7de1b9..a052ba7c7 100644
--- a/apps/fixtures/css/src/components/test.tsx
+++ b/apps/fixtures/css/src/components/test.tsx
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ export const CommonTests = (props: { routeModuleClass?: string }) => (
       class={props.routeModuleClass}
       integration="module"
     />
+    <Test
+      component="Route"
+      file="virtual:virtualModule.css"
+      class="virtualCss"
+      comment="CSS from virtual module (virtualCssPlugin.ts)."
+    />
     <Test
       component="Route"
       file="url.css"
diff --git a/apps/fixtures/css/src/routes/index.tsx b/apps/fixtures/css/src/routes/index.tsx
index 08933785e..79682490f 100644
--- a/apps/fixtures/css/src/routes/index.tsx
+++ b/apps/fixtures/css/src/routes/index.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { createAsync, query } from "@solidjs/router";
 import { lazy, Show } from "solid-js";
+import "virtual:virtualModule.css";
 import Layout from "../components/layout";
 import { CommonTests } from "../components/test";
 import notRenderedInlineCSS from "../styles/notRendered.css?url";
diff --git a/apps/fixtures/css/src/virtualCssPlugin.ts b/apps/fixtures/css/src/virtualCssPlugin.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..897dc872d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/fixtures/css/src/virtualCssPlugin.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import { Plugin } from "vite";
+
+const id = "virtual:virtualModule.css";
+const resolvedId = "\0" + id;
+
+const virtualCSS = () =>
+  ({
+    name: "css-fixture-virtual-css",
+    resolveId(source) {
+      if (source === id) return resolvedId;
+    },
+    load(id) {
+      if (id.startsWith(resolvedId))
+        return `.virtualCss { background-color: var(--color-success); }`;
+    },
+  }) satisfies Plugin;
+
+export default virtualCSS;
diff --git a/apps/fixtures/css/vite.config.ts b/apps/fixtures/css/vite.config.ts
index 636b0a385..45a044c7a 100644
--- a/apps/fixtures/css/vite.config.ts
+++ b/apps/fixtures/css/vite.config.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ import tailwindcss from "@tailwindcss/vite";
 import { defineConfig } from "vite";
 import { nitroV2Plugin } from "../../../packages/start-nitro-v2-vite-plugin/src";
 import { solidStart } from "../../../packages/start/src/config";
+import virtualCSS from "./src/virtualCssPlugin";
 
 export default defineConfig({
-  plugins: [solidStart(), nitroV2Plugin(), tailwindcss()],
+  plugins: [virtualCSS(), solidStart(), nitroV2Plugin(), tailwindcss()],
 });
diff --git a/packages/start/src/config/manifest.ts b/packages/start/src/config/manifest.ts
index e1276d600..093cc7209 100644
--- a/packages/start/src/config/manifest.ts
+++ b/packages/start/src/config/manifest.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { type PluginOption, type ViteDevServer } from "vite";
 import { findStylesInModuleGraph } from "../server/collect-styles.ts";
 import { VIRTUAL_MODULES } from "./constants.ts";
 import { type SolidStartOptions } from "./index.ts";
+import { wrapId } from "./vite-utils.ts";
 
 export function manifest(start: SolidStartOptions): PluginOption {
   let devServer: ViteDevServer = undefined!;
@@ -69,10 +70,10 @@ export function manifest(start: SolidStartOptions): PluginOption {
 						tag: "style",
 						attrs: {
 							type: "text/css",
-							"data-vite-dev-id": "${key}",
+							"data-vite-dev-id": "${wrapId(key)}",
 							"data-vite-ref": "0",
 						},
-						children: () => import("${value}?inline").then(mod => mod.default),
+						children: () => import("${wrapId(value)}?inline").then(mod => mod.default),
 					}`,
           );
 
diff --git a/packages/start/src/config/vite-utils.ts b/packages/start/src/config/vite-utils.ts
index f5a7d7627..c718af9f8 100644
--- a/packages/start/src/config/vite-utils.ts
+++ b/packages/start/src/config/vite-utils.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export const FS_PREFIX = `/@fs/`;
 export const VALID_ID_PREFIX = `/@id/`;
 
 export const NULL_BYTE_PLACEHOLDER = `__x00__`;
+const NULL_BYTE_REGEX = /^\0/;
 
 export function normalizeResolvedIdToUrl(
   environment: DevEnvironment,
@@ -52,10 +53,13 @@ export function normalizeResolvedIdToUrl(
   return url;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Inspired by:
+ * https://github.com/withastro/astro/blob/fddde5fad81007795eb263c7fd0cea096b8e2cba/packages/astro/src/core/util.ts#L115
+ * https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/130e7181a55c524383c63bbfb1749d0ff7185cad/packages/vite/src/shared/utils.ts#L11
+ */
 export function wrapId(id: string): string {
-  return id.startsWith(VALID_ID_PREFIX)
-    ? id
-    : VALID_ID_PREFIX + id.replace("\0", NULL_BYTE_PLACEHOLDER);
+  return id.replace(NULL_BYTE_REGEX, `${VALID_ID_PREFIX}${NULL_BYTE_PLACEHOLDER}`);
 }
 
 export function unwrapId(id: string): string {
diff --git a/packages/start/src/server/StartServer.tsx b/packages/start/src/server/StartServer.tsx
index 97419175c..3ca15d1e1 100644
--- a/packages/start/src/server/StartServer.tsx
+++ b/packages/start/src/server/StartServer.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import App from "solid-start:app";
 
 import { ErrorBoundary, TopErrorBoundary } from "../shared/ErrorBoundary.tsx";
 import { useAssets } from "./assets/index.ts";
+import PatchVirtualDevStyles from "./assets/PatchVirtualDevStyles.tsx";
 import { getSsrManifest } from "./manifest/ssr-manifest.ts";
 import type { DocumentComponentProps, PageEvent } from "./types.ts";
 
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ export function StartServer(props: { document: Component<DocumentComponentProps>
           assets={<HydrationScript />}
           scripts={
             <>
+              <PatchVirtualDevStyles nonce={nonce} />
               <script
                 type="module"
                 nonce={nonce}
diff --git a/packages/start/src/server/assets/PatchVirtualDevStyles.tsx b/packages/start/src/server/assets/PatchVirtualDevStyles.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..871a0b57e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/start/src/server/assets/PatchVirtualDevStyles.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/**
+ * Patches the data-vite-dev-id attribute for style tags of virtual modules
+ *
+ * Per Vite's convention, virtual module ids are prefixed with \0 (null byte):
+ * https://vite.dev/guide/api-plugin#virtual-modules-convention
+ *
+ * However this null byte cannot be server rendered properly.
+ * Vite client runtime then fails to find style's with wrong null bytes,
+ * and instead inserts duplicate style's.
+ *
+ * This patch replaces the serializable /@id/__x00__ with the proper null byte,
+ * and has to run before Vite's client runtime:
+ * https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/130e7181a55c524383c63bbfb1749d0ff7185cad/packages/vite/src/client/client.ts#L529
+ *
+ * TODO: This should be solved in Vite directly!
+ */
+const patch = function () {
+  document.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>("style[data-vite-dev-id]").forEach(function (el) {
+    el.setAttribute("data-vite-dev-id", el.dataset.viteDevId!.replace("/@id/__x00__", "\0"));
+  });
+};
+
+const serializedPatch = `(${patch.toString()})();`;
+
+const PatchVirtualDevStyles = (props: { nonce?: string }) => {
+  if (!import.meta.env.PROD) {
+    return <script nonce={props.nonce} innerHTML={serializedPatch} />;
+  }
+};
+
+export default PatchVirtualDevStyles;
diff --git a/packages/start/src/server/collect-styles.ts b/packages/start/src/server/collect-styles.ts
index 7e4b40453..4586ead7b 100644
--- a/packages/start/src/server/collect-styles.ts
+++ b/packages/start/src/server/collect-styles.ts
@@ -1,30 +1,12 @@
 import path from "node:path";
-import { resolve } from "pathe";
 import type { DevEnvironment, EnvironmentModuleNode } from "vite";
 
-async function getViteModuleNode(vite: DevEnvironment, file: string) {
-  let nodePath = file;
-  let node = vite.moduleGraph.getModuleById(file);
-
-  if (!node) {
-    const resolvedId = await vite.pluginContainer.resolveId(file, undefined);
-    if (!resolvedId) return;
-
-    nodePath = resolvedId.id;
-    node = vite.moduleGraph.getModuleById(file);
-  }
-
-  if (!node) {
-    nodePath = resolve(nodePath);
-    node = await vite.moduleGraph.getModuleByUrl(file);
-  }
-
-  if (!node) {
-    await vite.moduleGraph.ensureEntryFromUrl(nodePath, false);
-    node = vite.moduleGraph.getModuleById(nodePath);
-  }
-
-  return node;
+async function getViteModuleNode(vite: DevEnvironment, file: string, importer?: string) {
+  try {
+    const res = await vite.fetchModule(file, importer);
+    if (!("id" in res)) return;
+    return vite.moduleGraph.getModuleById(res.id);
+  } catch (err) {}
 }
 
 async function findModuleDependencies(
@@ -32,9 +14,10 @@ async function findModuleDependencies(
   file: string,
   deps: Set<EnvironmentModuleNode>,
   crawledFiles = new Set<string>(),
+  importer?: string,
 ) {
   crawledFiles.add(file);
-  const module = await getViteModuleNode(vite, file);
+  const module = await getViteModuleNode(vite, file, importer);
   if (!module?.id || deps.has(module)) return;
 
   deps.add(module);
@@ -53,7 +36,7 @@ async function findModuleDependencies(
     if (crawledFiles.has(dep)) {
       continue;
     }
-    await findModuleDependencies(vite, dep, deps, crawledFiles);
+    await findModuleDependencies(vite, dep, deps, crawledFiles, module.id);
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/start/src/server/spa/StartServer.tsx b/packages/start/src/server/spa/StartServer.tsx
index 4da7546ca..72d3ba8e6 100644
--- a/packages/start/src/server/spa/StartServer.tsx
+++ b/packages/start/src/server/spa/StartServer.tsx
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { getSsrManifest } from "../manifest/ssr-manifest.ts";
 
 import { TopErrorBoundary } from "../../shared/ErrorBoundary.tsx";
 import { useAssets } from "../assets/index.ts";
+import PatchVirtualDevStyles from "../assets/PatchVirtualDevStyles.tsx";
 import type { DocumentComponentProps, PageEvent } from "../types.ts";
 
 const docType = ssr("<!DOCTYPE html>");
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ export function StartServer(props: { document: Component<DocumentComponentProps>
         <props.document
           scripts={
             <>
+              <PatchVirtualDevStyles nonce={nonce} />
               <script
                 type="module"
                 src={getSsrManifest("client").path(import.meta.env.START_CLIENT_ENTRY)}