postcss-merge-longhand
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The postcss-merge-longhand package is a PostCSS plugin that merges longhand CSS properties into shorthand properties. This helps in reducing the size of the CSS by combining multiple longhand properties into a single shorthand property where possible.
Merge Margin Properties
This feature merges individual margin properties (margin-top, margin-right, margin-bottom, margin-left) into a single shorthand margin property.
/* Input CSS */
{
margin-top: 10px;
margin-right: 20px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 20px;
}
/* Output CSS */
{
margin: 10px 20px;
}Merge Padding Properties
This feature merges individual padding properties (padding-top, padding-right, padding-bottom, padding-left) into a single shorthand padding property.
/* Input CSS */
{
padding-top: 5px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
/* Output CSS */
{
padding: 5px 10px;
}Merge Border Properties
This feature merges individual border properties (border-width, border-style, border-color) into a single shorthand border property.
/* Input CSS */
{
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: black;
}
/* Output CSS */
{
border: 1px solid black;
}cssnano is a modular minifier that optimizes CSS for production. It includes a variety of plugins, including one for merging longhand properties into shorthand. cssnano is more comprehensive and includes many other optimizations beyond just merging longhand properties.
clean-css is a fast and efficient CSS optimizer that can also merge longhand properties into shorthand. It provides a wide range of optimization options and is known for its speed and efficiency.
csso (CSS Optimizer) is a CSS minifier that performs structural optimization of CSS files. It includes functionality to merge longhand properties into shorthand, along with other optimizations to reduce the size of CSS files.
Merge longhand properties into shorthand with PostCSS.
With npm do:
npm install postcss-merge-longhand --save
Merge longhand properties into shorthand; works with margin, padding &
border. For more examples see the tests.
h1 {
margin-top: 10px;
margin-right: 20px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 20px;
}
h1 {
margin: 10px 20px;
}
See the PostCSS documentation for examples for your environment.
See CONTRIBUTORS.md.
MIT © Ben Briggs
FAQs
Merge longhand properties into shorthand with PostCSS.
The npm package postcss-merge-longhand receives a total of 7,414,416 weekly downloads. As such, postcss-merge-longhand popularity was classified as popular.
We found that postcss-merge-longhand demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 7 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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