clean-css is a fast and efficient CSS optimizer for Node.js platform and any modern browser.
According to tests it is one of the best available.
IMPORTANT: clean-css is now in a maintenance mode. PRs are still welcome, and I will try do an occasional bugfix release.
Table of Contents
- Node.js version support
- Install
- Use
- FAQ
- How to optimize multiple files?
- How to process multiple files without concatenating them into one output file?
- How to process remote
@import
s correctly? - How to apply arbitrary transformations to CSS properties?
- How to specify a custom rounding precision?
- How to keep a CSS fragment intact?
- How to preserve a comment block?
- How to rebase relative image URLs?
- How to work with source maps?
- How to apply level 1 & 2 optimizations at the same time?
- What level 2 optimizations do?
- What errors and warnings are?
- How to use clean-css with build tools?
- How to use clean-css from web browser?
- Contributing
- Acknowledgments
- License
clean-css requires Node.js 10.0+ (tested on Linux, OS X, and Windows)
npm install --save-dev clean-css
var CleanCSS = require('clean-css');
var input = 'a{font-weight:bold;}';
var options = { /* options */ };
var output = new CleanCSS(options).minify(input);
clean-css 5.3 introduces one new feature:
- variables can be optimized using level 1's
variableValueOptimizers
option, which accepts a list of value optimizers or a list of their names, e.g.variableValueOptimizers: ['color', 'fraction']
.
clean-css 5.0 introduced some breaking changes:
- Node.js 6.x and 8.x are officially no longer supported;
transform
callback in level-1 optimizations is removed in favor of new plugins interface;- changes default Internet Explorer compatibility from 10+ to >11, to revert the old default use
{ compatibility: 'ie10' }
flag; - changes default
rebase
option fromtrue
tofalse
so URLs are not rebased by default. Please note that if you setrebaseTo
option it still counts as settingrebase: true
to preserve some of the backward compatibility.
And on the new features side of things:
- format options now accepts numerical values for all breaks, which will allow you to have more control over output formatting, e.g.
format: {breaks: {afterComment: 2}}
means clean-css will add two line breaks after each comment - a new
batch
option (defaults tofalse
) is added, when set totrue
it will process all inputs, given either as an array or a hash, without concatenating them.
clean-css 4.2 introduces the following changes / features:
- Adds
process
method for compatibility with optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin; - new
transition
property optimizer; - preserves any CSS content between
/* clean-css ignore:start */
and/* clean-css ignore:end */
comments; - allows filtering based on selector in
transform
callback, see example; - adds configurable line breaks via
format: { breakWith: 'lf' }
option.
clean-css 4.1 introduces the following changes / features:
inline: false
as an alias toinline: ['none']
;multiplePseudoMerging
compatibility flag controlling merging of rules with multiple pseudo classes / elements;removeEmpty
flag in level 1 optimizations controlling removal of rules and nested blocks;removeEmpty
flag in level 2 optimizations controlling removal of rules and nested blocks;compatibility: { selectors: { mergeLimit: <number> } }
flag in compatibility settings controlling maximum number of selectors in a single rule;minify
method improved signature accepting a list of hashes for a predictable traversal;selectorsSortingMethod
level 1 optimization allowsfalse
or'none'
for disabling selector sorting;fetch
option controlling a function for handling remote requests;- new
font
shorthand andfont-*
longhand optimizers; - removal of
optimizeFont
flag in level 1 optimizations due to newfont
shorthand optimizer; skipProperties
flag in level 2 optimizations controlling which properties won't be optimized;- new
animation
shorthand andanimation-*
longhand optimizers; removeUnusedAtRules
level 2 optimization controlling removal of unused@counter-style
,@font-face
,@keyframes
, and@namespace
at rules;- the web interface gets an improved settings panel with "reset to defaults", instant option changes, and settings being persisted across sessions.
clean-css 4.0 introduces some breaking changes:
- API and CLI interfaces are split, so API stays in this repository while CLI moves to clean-css-cli;
root
,relativeTo
, andtarget
options are replaced by a singlerebaseTo
option - this means that rebasing URLs and import inlining is much simpler but may not be (YMMV) as powerful as in 3.x;debug
option is gone as stats are always provided in output object understats
property;roundingPrecision
is disabled by default;roundingPrecision
applies to all units now, not onlypx
as in 3.x;processImport
andprocessImportFrom
are merged intoinline
option which defaults tolocal
. Remote@import
rules are NOT inlined by default anymore;- splits
inliner: { request: ..., timeout: ... }
option intoinlineRequest
andinlineTimeout
options; - remote resources without a protocol, e.g.
//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Domine:700
, are not inlined anymore; - changes default Internet Explorer compatibility from 9+ to 10+, to revert the old default use
{ compatibility: 'ie9' }
flag; - renames
keepSpecialComments
tospecialComments
; - moves
roundingPrecision
andspecialComments
to level 1 optimizations options, see examples; - moves
mediaMerging
,restructuring
,semanticMerging
, andshorthandCompacting
to level 2 optimizations options, see examples below; - renames
shorthandCompacting
option tomergeIntoShorthands
; - level 1 optimizations are the new default, up to 3.x it was level 2;
keepBreaks
option is replaced with{ format: 'keep-breaks' }
to ease transition;sourceMap
option has to be a boolean from now on - to specify an input source map pass it a 2nd argument tominify
method or via a hash instead;aggressiveMerging
option is removed as aggressive merging is replaced by smarter override merging.
clean-css constructor accepts a hash as a parameter with the following options available:
compatibility
- controls compatibility mode used; defaults toie10+
; see compatibility modes for examples;fetch
- controls a function for handling remote requests; see fetch option for examples (since 4.1.0);format
- controls output CSS formatting; defaults tofalse
; see formatting options for examples;inline
- controls@import
inlining rules; defaults to'local'
; see inlining options for examples;inlineRequest
- controls extra options for inlining remote@import
rules, can be any of HTTP(S) request options;inlineTimeout
- controls number of milliseconds after which inlining a remote@import
fails; defaults to 5000;level
- controls optimization level used; defaults to1
; see optimization levels for examples;rebase
- controls URL rebasing; defaults tofalse
;rebaseTo
- controls a directory to which all URLs are rebased, most likely the directory under which the output file will live; defaults to the current directory;returnPromise
- controls whetherminify
method returns a Promise object or not; defaults tofalse
; see promise interface for examples;sourceMap
- controls whether an output source map is built; defaults tofalse
;sourceMapInlineSources
- controls embedding sources inside a source map'ssourcesContent
field; defaults to false.
There is a certain number of compatibility mode shortcuts, namely:
new CleanCSS({ compatibility: '*' })
(default) - Internet Explorer 10+ compatibility modenew CleanCSS({ compatibility: 'ie9' })
- Internet Explorer 9+ compatibility modenew CleanCSS({ compatibility: 'ie8' })
- Internet Explorer 8+ compatibility modenew CleanCSS({ compatibility: 'ie7' })
- Internet Explorer 7+ compatibility mode
Each of these modes is an alias to a fine grained configuration, with the following options available:
new CleanCSS({
compatibility: {
colors: {
hexAlpha: false, // controls 4- and 8-character hex color support
opacity: true // controls `rgba()` / `hsla()` color support
},
properties: {
backgroundClipMerging: true, // controls background-clip merging into shorthand
backgroundOriginMerging: true, // controls background-origin merging into shorthand
backgroundSizeMerging: true, // controls background-size merging into shorthand
colors: true, // controls color optimizations
ieBangHack: false, // controls keeping IE bang hack
ieFilters: false, // controls keeping IE `filter` / `-ms-filter`
iePrefixHack: false, // controls keeping IE prefix hack
ieSuffixHack: false, // controls keeping IE suffix hack
merging: true, // controls property merging based on understandability
shorterLengthUnits: false, // controls shortening pixel units into `pc`, `pt`, or `in` units
spaceAfterClosingBrace: true, // controls keeping space after closing brace - `url() no-repeat` into `url()no-repeat`
urlQuotes: true, // controls keeping quoting inside `url()`
zeroUnits: true // controls removal of units `0` value
},
selectors: {
adjacentSpace: false, // controls extra space before `nav` element
ie7Hack: true, // controls removal of IE7 selector hacks, e.g. `*+html...`
mergeablePseudoClasses: [':active', ...], // controls a whitelist of mergeable pseudo classes
mergeablePseudoElements: ['::after', ...], // controls a whitelist of mergeable pseudo elements
mergeLimit: 8191, // controls maximum number of selectors in a single rule (since 4.1.0)
multiplePseudoMerging: true // controls merging of rules with multiple pseudo classes / elements (since 4.1.0)
},
units: {
ch: true, // controls treating `ch` as a supported unit
in: true, // controls treating `in` as a supported unit
pc: true, // controls treating `pc` as a supported unit
pt: true, // controls treating `pt` as a supported unit
rem: true, // controls treating `rem` as a supported unit
vh: true, // controls treating `vh` as a supported unit
vm: true, // controls treating `vm` as a supported unit
vmax: true, // controls treating `vmax` as a supported unit
vmin: true // controls treating `vmin` as a supported unit
}
}
})
You can also use a string when setting a compatibility mode, e.g.
new CleanCSS({
compatibility: 'ie9,-properties.merging' // sets compatibility to IE9 mode with disabled property merging
})
The fetch
option accepts a function which handles remote resource fetching, e.g.
var request = require('request');
var source = '@import url(http://example.com/path/to/stylesheet.css);';
new CleanCSS({
fetch: function (uri, inlineRequest, inlineTimeout, callback) {
request(uri, function (error, response, body) {
if (error) {
callback(error, null);
} else if (response && response.statusCode != 200) {
callback(response.statusCode, null);
} else {
callback(null, body);
}
});
}
}).minify(source);
This option provides a convenient way of overriding the default fetching logic if it doesn't support a particular feature, say CONNECT proxies.
Unless given, the default loadRemoteResource logic is used.
By default output CSS is formatted without any whitespace unless a format
option is given.
First of all there are two shorthands:
new CleanCSS({
format: 'beautify' // formats output in a really nice way
})
and
new CleanCSS({
format: 'keep-breaks' // formats output the default way but adds line breaks for improved readability
})
however format
option also accept a fine-grained set of options:
new CleanCSS({
format: {
breaks: { // controls where to insert breaks
afterAtRule: false, // controls if a line break comes after an at-rule; e.g. `@charset`; defaults to `false`
afterBlockBegins: false, // controls if a line break comes after a block begins; e.g. `@media`; defaults to `false`
afterBlockEnds: false, // controls if a line break comes after a block ends, defaults to `false`
afterComment: false, // controls if a line break comes after a comment; defaults to `false`
afterProperty: false, // controls if a line break comes after a property; defaults to `false`
afterRuleBegins: false, // controls if a line break comes after a rule begins; defaults to `false`
afterRuleEnds: false, // controls if a line break comes after a rule ends; defaults to `false`
beforeBlockEnds: false, // controls if a line break comes before a block ends; defaults to `false`
betweenSelectors: false // controls if a line break comes between selectors; defaults to `false`
},
breakWith: '\n', // controls the new line character, can be `'\r\n'` or `'\n'` (aliased as `'windows'` and `'unix'` or `'crlf'` and `'lf'`); defaults to system one, so former on Windows and latter on Unix
indentBy: 0, // controls number of characters to indent with; defaults to `0`
indentWith: 'space', // controls a character to indent with, can be `'space'` or `'tab'`; defaults to `'space'`
spaces: { // controls where to insert spaces
aroundSelectorRelation: false, // controls if spaces come around selector relations; e.g. `div > a`; defaults to `false`
beforeBlockBegins: false, // controls if a space comes before a block begins; e.g. `.block {`; defaults to `false`
beforeValue: false // controls if a space comes before a value; e.g. `width: 1rem`; defaults to `false`
},
wrapAt: false, // controls maximum line length; defaults to `false`
semicolonAfterLastProperty: false // controls removing trailing semicolons in rule; defaults to `false` - means remove
}
})
Also since clean-css 5.0 you can use numerical values for all line breaks, which will repeat a line break that many times, e.g:
new CleanCSS({
format: {
breaks: {
afterAtRule: 2,
afterBlockBegins: 1, // 1 is synonymous with `true`
afterBlockEnds: 2,
afterComment: 1,
afterProperty: 1,
afterRuleBegins: 1,
afterRuleEnds: 1,
beforeBlockEnds: 1,
betweenSelectors: 0 // 0 is synonymous with `false`
}
}
})
which will add nicer spacing between at rules and blocks.
inline
option whitelists which @import
rules will be processed, e.g.
new CleanCSS({
inline: ['local'] // default; enables local inlining only
})
new CleanCSS({
inline: ['none'] // disables all inlining
})
// introduced in clean-css 4.1.0
new CleanCSS({
inline: false // disables all inlining (alias to `['none']`)
})
new CleanCSS({
inline: ['all'] // enables all inlining, same as ['local', 'remote']
})
new CleanCSS({
inline: ['local', 'mydomain.example.com'] // enables local inlining plus given remote source
})
new CleanCSS({
inline: ['local', 'remote', '!fonts.googleapis.com'] // enables all inlining but from given remote source
})
The level
option can be either 0
, 1
(default), or 2
, e.g.
new CleanCSS({
level: 2
})
or a fine-grained configuration given via a hash.
Please note that level 1 optimization options are generally safe while level 2 optimizations should be safe for most users.
Level 0 optimizations simply means "no optimizations". Use it when you'd like to inline imports and / or rebase URLs but skip everything else.
Level 1 optimizations (default) operate on single properties only, e.g. can remove units when not required, turn rgb colors to a shorter hex representation, remove comments, etc
Here is a full list of available options:
new CleanCSS({
level: {
1: {
cleanupCharsets: true, // controls `@charset` moving to the front of a stylesheet; defaults to `true`
normalizeUrls: true, // controls URL normalization; defaults to `true`
optimizeBackground: true, // controls `background` property optimizations; defaults to `true`
optimizeBorderRadius: true, // controls `border-radius` property optimizations; defaults to `true`
optimizeFilter: true, // controls `filter` property optimizations; defaults to `true`
optimizeFont: true, // controls `font` property optimizations; defaults to `true`
optimizeFontWeight: true, // controls `font-weight` property optimizations; defaults to `true`
optimizeOutline: true, // controls `outline` property optimizations; defaults to `true`
removeEmpty: true, // controls removing empty rules and nested blocks; defaults to `true`
removeNegativePaddings: true, // controls removing negative paddings; defaults to `true`
removeQuotes: true, // controls removing quotes when unnecessary; defaults to `true`
removeWhitespace: true, // controls removing unused whitespace; defaults to `true`
replaceMultipleZeros: true, // controls removing redundant zeros; defaults to `true`
replaceTimeUnits: true, // controls replacing time units with shorter values; defaults to `true`
replaceZeroUnits: true, // controls replacing zero values with units; defaults to `true`
roundingPrecision: false, // rounds pixel values to `N` decimal places; `false` disables rounding; defaults to `false`
selectorsSortingMethod: 'standard', // denotes selector sorting method; can be `'natural'` or `'standard'`, `'none'`, or false (the last two since 4.1.0); defaults to `'standard'`
specialComments: 'all', // denotes a number of /*! ... */ comments preserved; defaults to `all`
tidyAtRules: true, // controls at-rules (e.g. `@charset`, `@import`) optimizing; defaults to `true`
tidyBlockScopes: true, // controls block scopes (e.g. `@media`) optimizing; defaults to `true`
tidySelectors: true, // controls selectors optimizing; defaults to `true`,
variableValueOptimizers: [] // controls value optimizers which are applied to variables
}
}
});
There is an all
shortcut for toggling all options at the same time, e.g.
new CleanCSS({
level: {
1: {
all: false, // set all values to `false`
tidySelectors: true // turns on optimizing selectors
}
}
});
Level 2 optimizations operate at rules or multiple properties level, e.g. can remove duplicate rules, remove properties redefined further down a stylesheet, or restructure rules by moving them around.
Please note that if level 2 optimizations are turned on then, unless explicitely disabled, level 1 optimizations are applied as well.
Here is a full list of available options:
new CleanCSS({
level: {
2: {
mergeAdjacentRules: true, // controls adjacent rules merging; defaults to true
mergeIntoShorthands: true, // controls merging properties into shorthands; defaults to true
mergeMedia: true, // controls `@media` merging; defaults to true
mergeNonAdjacentRules: true, // controls non-adjacent rule merging; defaults to true
mergeSemantically: false, // controls semantic merging; defaults to false
overrideProperties: true, // controls property overriding based on understandability; defaults to true
removeEmpty: true, // controls removing empty rules and nested blocks; defaults to `true`
reduceNonAdjacentRules: true, // controls non-adjacent rule reducing; defaults to true
removeDuplicateFontRules: true, // controls duplicate `@font-face` removing; defaults to true
removeDuplicateMediaBlocks: true, // controls duplicate `@media` removing; defaults to true
removeDuplicateRules: true, // controls duplicate rules removing; defaults to true
removeUnusedAtRules: false, // controls unused at rule removing; defaults to false (available since 4.1.0)
restructureRules: false, // controls rule restructuring; defaults to false
skipProperties: [] // controls which properties won't be optimized, defaults to `[]` which means all will be optimized (since 4.1.0)
}
}
});
There is an all
shortcut for toggling all options at the same time, e.g.
new CleanCSS({
level: {
2: {
all: false, // sets all values to `false`
removeDuplicateRules: true // turns on removing duplicate rules
}
}
});
In clean-css version 5 and above you can define plugins which run alongside level 1 and level 2 optimizations, e.g.
var myPlugin = {
level1: {
property: function removeRepeatedBackgroundRepeat(_rule, property, _options) {
// So `background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat` becomes `background-repeat:no-repeat`
if (property.name == 'background-repeat' && property.value.length == 2 && property.value[0][1] == property.value[1][1]) {
property.value.pop();
property.dirty = true;
}
}
}
}
new CleanCSS({plugins: [myPlugin]})
Search test\module-test.js
for plugins
or check out lib/optimizer/level-1/property-optimizers
and lib/optimizer/level-1/value-optimizers
for more examples.
Important: To rewrite your old transform
as a plugin, check out this commit.
Once configured clean-css provides a minify
method to optimize a given CSS, e.g.
var output = new CleanCSS(options).minify(source);
The output of the minify
method is a hash with following fields:
console.log(output.styles); // optimized output CSS as a string
console.log(output.sourceMap); // output source map if requested with `sourceMap` option
console.log(output.errors); // a list of errors raised
console.log(output.warnings); // a list of warnings raised
console.log(output.stats.originalSize); // original content size after import inlining
console.log(output.stats.minifiedSize); // optimized content size
console.log(output.stats.timeSpent); // time spent on optimizations in milliseconds
console.log(output.stats.efficiency); // `(originalSize - minifiedSize) / originalSize`, e.g. 0.25 if size is reduced from 100 bytes to 75 bytes
Example: Minifying a CSS string:
const CleanCSS = require("clean-css");
const output = new CleanCSS().minify(`
a {
color: blue;
}
div {
margin: 5px
}
`);
console.log(output);
// Log:
{
styles: 'a{color:#00f}div{margin:5px}',
stats: {
efficiency: 0.6704545454545454,
minifiedSize: 29,
originalSize: 88,
timeSpent: 6
},
errors: [],
inlinedStylesheets: [],
warnings: []
}
The minify
method also accepts an input source map, e.g.
var output = new CleanCSS(options).minify(source, inputSourceMap);
or a callback invoked when optimizations are finished, e.g.
new CleanCSS(options).minify(source, function (error, output) {
// `output` is the same as in the synchronous call above
});
To optimize a single file, without reading it first, pass a path to it to minify
method as follows:
var output = new CleanCSS(options).minify(['path/to/file.css'])
(if you won't enclose the path in an array, it will be treated as a CSS source instead).
There are several ways to optimize multiple files at the same time, see How to optimize multiple files?.
If you prefer clean-css to return a Promise object then you need to explicitely ask for it, e.g.
new CleanCSS({ returnPromise: true })
.minify(source)
.then(function (output) { console.log(output.styles); })
.catch(function (error) { // deal with errors });
Clean-css has an associated command line utility that can be installed separately using npm install clean-css-cli
. For more detailed information, please visit https://github.com/clean-css/clean-css-cli.
It can be done either by passing an array of paths, or, when sources are already available, a hash or an array of hashes:
new CleanCSS().minify(['path/to/file/one', 'path/to/file/two']);
new CleanCSS().minify({
'path/to/file/one': {
styles: 'contents of file one'
},
'path/to/file/two': {
styles: 'contents of file two'
}
});
new CleanCSS().minify([
{'path/to/file/one': {styles: 'contents of file one'}},
{'path/to/file/two': {styles: 'contents of file two'}}
]);
Passing an array of hashes allows you to explicitly specify the order in which the input files are concatenated. Whereas when you use a single hash the order is determined by the traversal order of object properties - available since 4.1.0.
Important note - any @import
rules already present in the hash will be resolved in memory.
Since clean-css 5.0 you can, when passing an array of paths, hash, or array of hashes (see above), ask clean-css not to join styles into one output, but instead return stylesheets optimized one by one, e.g.
var output = new CleanCSS({ batch: true }).minify(['path/to/file/one', 'path/to/file/two']);
var outputOfFile1 = output['path/to/file/one'].styles // all other fields, like errors, warnings, or stats are there too
var outputOfFile2 = output['path/to/file/two'].styles
In order to inline remote @import
statements you need to provide a callback to minify method as fetching remote assets is an asynchronous operation, e.g.:
var source = '@import url(http://example.com/path/to/remote/styles);';
new CleanCSS({ inline: ['remote'] }).minify(source, function (error, output) {
// output.styles
});
If you don't provide a callback, then remote @import
s will be left as is.
Please see plugins.
The level 1 roundingPrecision
optimization option accept a string with per-unit rounding precision settings, e.g.
new CleanCSS({
level: {
1: {
roundingPrecision: 'all=3,px=5'
}
}
}).minify(source)
which sets all units rounding precision to 3 digits except px
unit precision of 5 digits.
Since rpx
is a non standard unit (see #1074), it will be dropped by default as an invalid value.
However you can treat rpx
units as regular ones:
new CleanCSS({
compatibility: {
customUnits: {
rpx: true
}
}
}).minify(source)
Note: available since 4.2.0.
Wrap the CSS fragment in special comments which instruct clean-css to preserve it, e.g.
.block-1 {
color: red
}
/* clean-css ignore:start */
.block-special {
color: transparent
}
/* clean-css ignore:end */
.block-2 {
margin: 0
}
Optimizing this CSS will result in the following output:
.block-1{color:red}
.block-special {
color: transparent
}
.block-2{margin:0}
Use the /*!
notation instead of the standard one /*
:
/*!
Important comments included in optimized output.
*/
clean-css will handle it automatically for you in the following cases:
- when full paths to input files are passed in as options;
- when correct paths are passed in via a hash;
- when
rebaseTo
is used with any of above two.
To generate a source map, use sourceMap: true
option, e.g.:
new CleanCSS({ sourceMap: true, rebaseTo: pathToOutputDirectory })
.minify(source, function (error, output) {
// access output.sourceMap for SourceMapGenerator object
// see https://github.com/mozilla/source-map/#sourcemapgenerator for more details
});
You can also pass an input source map directly as a 2nd argument to minify
method:
new CleanCSS({ sourceMap: true, rebaseTo: pathToOutputDirectory })
.minify(source, inputSourceMap, function (error, output) {
// access output.sourceMap to access SourceMapGenerator object
// see https://github.com/mozilla/source-map/#sourcemapgenerator for more details
});
or even multiple input source maps at once:
new CleanCSS({ sourceMap: true, rebaseTo: pathToOutputDirectory }).minify({
'path/to/source/1': {
styles: '...styles...',
sourceMap: '...source-map...'
},
'path/to/source/2': {
styles: '...styles...',
sourceMap: '...source-map...'
}
}, function (error, output) {
// access output.sourceMap as above
});
Using the hash configuration specifying both optimization levels, e.g.
new CleanCSS({
level: {
1: {
all: true,
normalizeUrls: false
},
2: {
restructureRules: true
}
}
})
will apply level 1 optimizations, except url normalization, and default level 2 optimizations with rule restructuring.
All level 2 optimizations are dispatched here, and this is what they do:
recursivelyOptimizeBlocks
- does all the following operations on a nested block, like@media
or@keyframe
;recursivelyOptimizeProperties
- optimizes properties in rulesets and flat at-rules, like @font-face, by splitting them into components (e.g.margin
intomargin-(bottom|left|right|top)
), optimizing, and restoring them back. You may want to usemergeIntoShorthands
option to control whether you want to turn multiple components into shorthands;removeDuplicates
- gets rid of duplicate rulesets with exactly the same set of properties, e.g. when including a Sass / Less partial twice for no good reason;mergeAdjacent
- merges adjacent rulesets with the same selector or rules;reduceNonAdjacent
- identifies which properties are overridden in same-selector non-adjacent rulesets, and removes them;mergeNonAdjacentBySelector
- identifies same-selector non-adjacent rulesets which can be moved (!) to be merged, requires all intermediate rulesets to not redefine the moved properties, or if redefined to have the same value;mergeNonAdjacentByBody
- same as the one above but for same-selector non-adjacent rulesets;restructure
- tries to reorganize different-selector different-rules rulesets so they take less space, e.g..one{padding:0}.two{margin:0}.one{margin-bottom:3px}
into.two{margin:0}.one{padding:0;margin-bottom:3px}
;removeDuplicateFontAtRules
- removes duplicated@font-face
rules;removeDuplicateMediaQueries
- removes duplicated@media
nested blocks;mergeMediaQueries
- merges non-adjacent@media
at-rules by the same rules asmergeNonAdjacentBy*
above;
If clean-css encounters invalid CSS, it will try to remove the invalid part and continue optimizing the rest of the code. It will make you aware of the problem by generating an error or warning. Although clean-css can work with invalid CSS, it is always recommended that you fix warnings and errors in your CSS.
Example: Minify invalid CSS, resulting in two warnings:
const CleanCSS = require("clean-css");
const output = new CleanCSS().minify(`
a {
-notarealproperty-: 5px;
color:
}
div {
margin: 5px
}
`);
console.log(output);
// Log:
{
styles: 'div{margin:5px}',
stats: {
efficiency: 0.8695652173913043,
minifiedSize: 15,
originalSize: 115,
timeSpent: 1
},
errors: [],
inlinedStylesheets: [],
warnings: [
"Invalid property name '-notarealproperty-' at 4:8. Ignoring.",
"Empty property 'color' at 5:8. Ignoring."
]
}
Example: Minify invalid CSS, resulting in one error:
const CleanCSS = require("clean-css");
const output = new CleanCSS().minify(`
@import "idontexist.css";
a {
color: blue;
}
div {
margin: 5px
}
`);
console.log(output);
// Log:
{
styles: 'a{color:#00f}div{margin:5px}',
stats: {
efficiency: 0.7627118644067796,
minifiedSize: 28,
originalSize: 118,
timeSpent: 2
},
errors: [
'Ignoring local @import of "idontexist.css" as resource is missing.'
],
inlinedStylesheets: [],
warnings: []
}
An example of how you can include clean-css in gulp
const { src, dest, series } = require('gulp');
const CleanCSS = require('clean-css');
const concat = require('gulp-concat');
function css() {
const options = {
compatibility: '*', // (default) - Internet Explorer 10+ compatibility mode
inline: ['all'], // enables all inlining, same as ['local', 'remote']
level: 2 // Optimization levels. The level option can be either 0, 1 (default), or 2, e.g.
// Please note that level 1 optimization options are generally safe while level 2 optimizations should be safe for most users.
};
return src('app/**/*.css')
.pipe(concat('style.min.css'))
.on('data', function(file) {
const bufferFile = new CleanCSS(options).minify(file.contents)
return file.contents = Buffer.from(bufferFile.styles)
})
.pipe(dest('build'))
}
exports.css = series(css)
There is a number of 3rd party plugins to popular build tools:
- Broccoli: broccoli-clean-css
- Brunch: clean-css-brunch
- Grunt: grunt-contrib-cssmin
- Gulp: gulp-clean-css
- Gulp: using vinyl-map as a wrapper - courtesy of @sogko
- component-builder2: builder-clean-css
- Metalsmith: metalsmith-clean-css
- Lasso: lasso-clean-css
- Start: start-clean-css
- https://clean-css.github.io/ (official web interface)
- http://refresh-sf.com/
- http://adamburgess.github.io/clean-css-online/
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
First clone the sources:
git clone git@github.com:clean-css/clean-css.git
then install dependencies:
cd clean-css
npm install
then use any of the following commands to verify your copy:
npm run bench # for clean-css benchmarks (see [test/bench.js](https://github.com/clean-css/clean-css/blob/master/test/bench.js) for details)
npm run browserify # to create the browser-ready clean-css version
npm run check # to lint JS sources with [JSHint](https://github.com/jshint/jshint/)
npm test # to run all tests
Sorted alphabetically by GitHub handle:
- @abarre (Anthony Barre) for improvements to
@import
processing; - @alexlamsl (Alex Lam S.L.) for testing early clean-css 4 versions, reporting bugs, and suggesting numerous improvements.
- @altschuler (Simon Altschuler) for fixing
@import
processing inside comments; - @ben-eb (Ben Briggs) for sharing ideas about CSS optimizations;
- @davisjam (Jamie Davis) for disclosing ReDOS vulnerabilities;
- @facelessuser (Isaac) for pointing out a flaw in clean-css' stateless mode;
- @grandrath (Martin Grandrath) for improving
minify
method source traversal in ES6; - @jmalonzo (Jan Michael Alonzo) for a patch removing node.js' old
sys
package; - @lukeapage (Luke Page) for suggestions and testing the source maps feature; Plus everyone else involved in #125 for pushing it forward;
- @madwizard-thomas for sharing ideas about
@import
inlining and URL rebasing. - @ngyikp (Ng Yik Phang) for testing early clean-css 4 versions, reporting bugs, and suggesting numerous improvements.
- @wagenet (Peter Wagenet) for suggesting improvements to
@import
inlining behavior; - @venemo (Timur Kristóf) for an outstanding contribution of advanced property optimizer for 2.2 release;
- @vvo (Vincent Voyer) for a patch with better empty element regex and for inspiring us to do many performance improvements in 0.4 release;
- @xhmikosr for suggesting new features, like option to remove special comments and strip out URLs quotation, and pointing out numerous improvements like JSHint, media queries, etc.
clean-css is released under the MIT License.