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postcss-reduce-initial
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Reduce initial definitions to the actual initial value, where possible.
Reduce
initialdefinitions to the actual initial value, where possible.
With npm do:
npm install postcss-reduce-initial --save
See the data for more conversions. This data is courtesy of Mozilla.
initial valuesWhen the initial keyword is longer than the property value, it will
be converted:
h1 {
min-width: initial;
}
h1 {
min-width: auto;
}
initialWhen the initial value is smaller than the property value, it will
be converted:
h1 {
transform-box: border-box;
}
h1 {
transform-box: initial;
}
This conversion is only applied when you supply a browsers list that all support
the initial keyword; it's worth noting that Internet Explorer has no support.
Type: Array<String>
Default: undefined
It contains the Array of properties that will be ignored while reducing its value to initial.
Example : { ignore : ["min-height"] }
See the PostCSS documentation for examples for your environment.
See CONTRIBUTORS.md.
This program uses a list of CSS properties derived from data maintained my the MDN team at Mozilla and licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
MIT © Ben Briggs
cssnano is a modular minifier for CSS that includes various optimizations, including reducing initial values to the 'initial' keyword, similar to postcss-reduce-initial. However, cssnano offers a broader range of optimizations such as merging rules, minifying font values, discarding comments, and more.
postcss-normalize-whitespace is a PostCSS plugin that normalizes whitespace by removing it where possible in CSS files. While it doesn't specifically target initial values, it contributes to the overall reduction of CSS file size, which is a similar goal to postcss-reduce-initial.
postcss-merge-longhand is a plugin that merges multiple CSS properties into shorthand properties, which can reduce the size of CSS files. This is different from postcss-reduce-initial's approach of replacing properties with the 'initial' keyword but achieves a similar end of optimizing CSS output.
FAQs
Reduce initial definitions to the actual initial value, where possible.
The npm package postcss-reduce-initial receives a total of 5,920,660 weekly downloads. As such, postcss-reduce-initial popularity was classified as popular.
We found that postcss-reduce-initial 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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