Whitespace Tools

[DougBTX]

Hi all,

Can someone reccomend a tool to remove (most) whitespace from CSS files?

I want it to be able to chage this:

selector {
   property: value;
   property: value;
   property: value;
}

selector, selector {
   property: value;
   property: value;
   property: value;
}

Into this:

selector {property: value;property: value;property: value}
selector, selector {property: value;property: value;property: value}

And then vise versa.

Any tips appreciated.

Thanks,
Douglas

[Paul O'B]

Hi Doug,

I don't know of any free tools but Top Style pro has a style sweeper which will do what you want (and more) but its about $80 I think.

Paul

[Tygger2512]

Doug,

I use a freeware tool called Absolute HTML Compressor to compress my xhtml and css files. When compressing, it removes the line breaks between CSS rules too, which is a little more than you wanted. It does not uncompress either, but you can do that for yourself using search & replace - i.e.
Search for ; and replace with ;+carriage return
Search for } and replace with }+carriage return

I copy my source files into another directory called 'optimized' and run the compressor on this new directory. That way I don't overwrite my white space version, which is easy to edit.

Hope this helps,
Andy.