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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Heres another tool: your brain.
- lazka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9maybe someone wants to try the original (csstidy1.2/1.3dev):
http://csstidy.sourceforge.net/
online version: http://cdburnerxp.se/cssparse/css_optimiser.php - knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7now preload your nav images and stop spamming and it will be great.
- ybfree, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Thanks for the great link!
- FiP0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Very nice ! It looks for all those shorthand optimisations that i sometimes forget.
- Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Notice I said "copy/paste and remote url like they currently do.", I'm saying I would like to be able to upload a file which resides on my local computer, not something already uploaded to my webserver.
- earlycj5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You wish the author would release the source code? Did you look at the sourceforge page?
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148404&package_id=166585 - Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Oooh, this is actually quite nice.
It'd really put the icing on the cake if they had an upload option in addition to copy/paste and remote url like they currently do. - jummy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://csstidy.sourceforge.net/index.php
http://www.cssoptimiser.com/
http://flumpcakes.co.uk/css/optimiser/ - Cybersqu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've seen quite a few of these floating around the web in the past. As far as file size reduction goes, its hardly noticeable unless your dealing with pretty big css files (or have a lot of white space), which isn't really unheard of, but it's nice to see an optimizer that follows the W3C standards.
Thanks for the link! - SeenD, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6they have.
under the post css there is an option to paste the url for a css file - volve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've used a lot of CSS cleaning/compression tools and this site really is the best. The simple ability to strip comments without altering the structure is priceless (csstidy alone doesn't have an option to preserve structure if you want to remove comments).
I just wish the author would release his source code so we could have this handy tool when not internet connection is available. Ah well. - flap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Klowner
Is Select all, copy and paste really that much harder than browsing for a file and uploading it? - Desimat0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This version is based on 1.3 of CSSTidy, and linked from the official homepage. The one linked in the article is based on 1.1.
http://cdburnerxp.se/cssparse/css_optimiser.php - Crossing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4funny how the site's own css is not "fully optimized" by their standards
- Mooco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2...Has anyone else noticed, that if you take the CSS of the page, it's not completely 'optimized/cleaned'?
- spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good stuff, but I prefer to keep my css somewhat verbose. Unless I'm doing a large site that's going to get a lot of hits, maintainability > optimization
- lokimdog, on 02/14/2008, -0/+1Cleans up my code super fast...HTML Formatter: http://www.logichammer.com/html-formatter/
- michaelGregoire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No doubt. The "compression" achieved even at the highest illegible setting, is negligable.
If you write good CSS from the beginning, you won't need tools like this. - tablatronix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow this is really neat, i didnt even notice how many color codes I should have reduced, and the fontweights to numbers , smart.
Compression Ratio: 25.9%
Is there a server side cacher to do these optimizations so your main source stays fully readable. - alettieri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Super helpful! Was using csstidy command shell based for a while... Thanks for doing the research for me!
- SenyWD, on 02/24/2009, -0/+0Download free standards compliant CSS layouts: http://www.free-css-layouts.com
- volve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@earlycj5:
Not CSSTidy, of CleanCSS.com due to his improvements. - captainpete, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That's what she said.
- Cvent, on 05/01/2008, -0/+0This and the aforementioned sites are good to try, even if your size savings are minimal—it's good practice to keep code concise. If you're not currently fluent with shorthand, you can play with tool and reverse engineer how certain properties reduce.
- nonchallant0819, on 03/28/2008, -0/+0This is a great story... found this one through http://www.google.com
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http://www.TopNotchCarpentry.com - lonniebiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Here's another tool:
http://www.lonniebest.com/FormatCSS/ - sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1FYI: CSS = cascading style sheet
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Looks like a handy tool.
- lokendra1989, on 07/29/2008, -1/+0I like it it's too good
http://xboxdesign.com
http://www.zeniltuo.com/
lokendra
(web designer) - robinator08, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1YES MORE CSS. I don't even know what CSS stands for, I just do whatever people post on digg...
- lonniebiz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Another tool:
Format CSS - fLUx1337, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2I've never seen the point in these css cleaners...
I just clean my own, donno if thats because I have worked with css for years, or because its just to easy?
Anyhow, will give this a try sometime.... - imaginaryrobot, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3This is kinda old new, but I use it all the time
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+0visit here, http://gopl.us/digg.com/design/Clean_CSS
- vvman, on 10/12/2007, -21/+0I just did it on a stylesheet i made for www.innoinsulation.com and it cut it down by 26%.. not sure if it functions as it should but pretty neat tool. dugg.


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