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> npm install css-tree
var csstree = require('css-tree');
csstree.walk(csstree.parse('.a { color: red; }'), function(node) {
console.log(node.type);
});
// Class
// SimpleSelector
// Selector
// Property
// Identifier
// Value
// Declaration
// Block
// Ruleset
// StyleSheet
Parse CSS to AST.
NOTE: Currenly parser omit redundant separators, spaces and comments (except exclamation comments, i.e.
/*! comment */) on AST build.
Options:
context String – parsing context, useful when some part of CSS is parsing (see below)property String – make sense for declaration context to apply some property specific parse rulespositions Boolean – should AST contains node position or not, store data in info property of nodes (false by default)filename String – filename of source that adds to info when positions is true, uses for source map generation (<unknown> by default)line Number – initial line number, useful when parse fragment of CSS to compute correct positionscolumn Number – initial column number, useful when parse fragment of CSS to compute correct positionsContexts:
stylesheet (default) – regular stylesheet, should be suitable in most casesatrule – at-rule (e.g. @media screen, print { ... })atruleExpression – at-rule expression (screen, print for example above)ruleset – rule (e.g. .foo, .bar:hover { color: red; border: 1px solid black; })selector – selector group (.foo, .bar:hover for ruleset example)simpleSelector – selector (.foo or .bar:hover for ruleset example)block – block content w/o curly braces (color: red; border: 1px solid black; for ruleset example)declaration – declaration (color: red or border: 1px solid black for ruleset example)value – declaration value (red or 1px solid black for ruleset example)// simple parsing with no options
var ast = csstree.parse('.example { color: red }');
// parse with options
var ast = csstree.parse('.foo.bar', {
context: 'simpleSelector',
positions: true
});
Make an AST node deep copy.
var orig = csstree.parse('.test { color: red }');
var copy = csstree.clone(orig);
csstree.walk(copy, function(node) {
if (node.type === 'Class') {
node.name = 'replaced';
}
});
console.log(csstree.translate(orig));
// .test{color:red}
console.log(csstree.translate(copy));
// .replaced{color:red}
Converts AST to string.
var ast = csstree.parse('.test { color: red }');
console.log(csstree.translate(ast));
// > .test{color:red}
The same as translate() but also generates source map (nodes should contain positions in info property).
var ast = csstree.parse('.test { color: red }', {
filename: 'my.css',
positions: true
});
console.log(csstree.translateWithSourceMap(ast));
// { css: '.test{color:red}', map: SourceMapGenerator {} }
Visit all nodes of AST and call handler for each one. handler receives three arguments:
node – current AST nodeitem – node wrapper when node is a list member; this wrapper contains references to prev and next nodes in listlist – reference to list when node is a list member; it's useful for operations on list like remove() or insert()Context for handler an object, that contains references to some parent nodes:
root – refers to ast or root nodestylesheet – refers to closest StyleSheet node, it may be a top-level or at-rule block stylesheetatruleExpression – refers to AtruleExpression node if current node inside at-rule expressionruleset – refers to Ruleset node if current node inside a rulesetselector – refers to Selector node if current node inside a selectordeclaration – refers to Declaration node if current node inside a declarationfunction – refers to closest Function or FunctionalPseudo node if current node inside one of them// collect all urls in declarations
var csstree = require('./lib/index.js');
var urls = [];
var ast = csstree.parse(`
@import url(import.css);
.foo { background: url('foo.jpg'); }
.bar { background-image: url(bar.png); }
`);
csstree.walk(ast, function(node) {
if (this.declaration !== null && node.type === 'Url') {
var value = node.value;
if (value.type === 'Raw') {
urls.push(value.value);
} else {
urls.push(value.value.substr(1, value.value.length - 2));
}
}
});
console.log(urls);
// [ 'foo.jpg', 'bar.png' ]
Same as walk() but visits Ruleset and Atrule nodes only.
Same as walkRules() but visits nodes in reverse order (from last to first).
Visit all declarations.
MIT
Template:CSSData by Mozilla Contributors is licensed under [CC-BY-SA 2.5]
PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript plugins. It can do similar tasks as css-tree, such as parsing, walking the AST, and generating CSS. PostCSS is plugin-based, which makes it more extensible and allows for a wide range of transformations.
Sass is a preprocessor scripting language that is interpreted or compiled into CSS. It offers more syntactic features compared to css-tree, such as variables, nesting, and mixins, but it is not primarily focused on parsing and manipulating existing CSS.
Less is another CSS pre-processor, similar to Sass, that extends the capabilities of CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations, and functions. Less and css-tree serve different purposes, with Less focusing on writing CSS in a more functional way and css-tree on parsing and manipulation.
clean-css is a fast and efficient CSS optimizer for Node.js and the browser. It focuses on minification, which is one of the features of css-tree, but does not provide a general-purpose CSS parsing and manipulation API.
FAQs
A tool set for CSS: fast detailed parser (CSS → AST), walker (AST traversal), generator (AST → CSS) and lexer (validation and matching) based on specs and browser implementations
The npm package css-tree receives a total of 21,688,937 weekly downloads. As such, css-tree popularity was classified as popular.
We found that css-tree demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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