beautify-css

beautify-css is a command-line CSS beautifier that uses the css npm module to parse and format valid CSS.

You can install it with npm install [-g] beautify-css.

Usage

``
beautify-css [options] [input] [output]

Options:
--indent, -i indent with this number of spaces (or string)
--encoding, -e string encoding (default: "utf8")
--compress, -c compress output, removing whitespace and comments
--source-map generate a source map, and write it to this file
--source-in reference one or more input source maps
--in-place, -p modify the input file in place
-v output helpful debugging messages
`

Some examples:

`sh


read from and write to files

beautify-css ugly.css pretty.css

or you can use the --in-place/-p to overwrite the file

(remember to back it up or check it in first!)

beautify-css -p style.css

read ugly css from stdin, write to a filename

echo 'body{margin:0}' | beautify-css - pretty.css

or redirect stdout to a file

echo 'body{margin:0}' | beautify-css > pretty.css

pipe pretty css to another tool, such as

myth:

echo 'body{margin:0}' | beautify-css | myth > beautiful.css
``