Short Text

Short Text is a PostCSS plugin that lets you use a shorthand text property in CSS.

/* before */
 
section {
    text: bold center uppercase dimgrey 1.25em 1.5 .05em;
}
 
article {
    text: 1.25em * .05em;
}
 
/* after */
 
section {
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    color: dimgrey;
    font-size: 1.25em;
    line-height: 1.5;
    letter-spacing: .05em;
}
 
article {
    font-size: 1.25em;
    letter-spacing: .05em;
}

Properties are matched into groups that may be written in any order. Once a property is matched to a group, other properties from that group must then be written before properties of another group. Asterisks indicate that an individual property in a group should be skipped. The groups include:

• color
• font-style, font-variant, font-weight, font-stretch
• text-decoration, text-align, text-rendering, text-transform
• white-space
• font-size, line-height, letter-spacing, word-spacing

Usage

Follow these steps to use Short Text.

Add Short Text to your build tool:

npm install postcss-short-text --save-dev

Node

require('postcss-short-text')({ /* options */ }).process(YOUR_CSS);

PostCSS

Add PostCSS to your build tool:

npm install postcss --save-dev

Load Short Text as a PostCSS plugin:

postcss([
    require('postcss-short-text')({ /* options */ })
]);

Gulp

Add Gulp PostCSS to your build tool:

npm install gulp-postcss --save-dev

Enable Short Text within your Gulpfile:

var postcss = require('gulp-postcss');
 
gulp.task('css', function () {
    return gulp.src('./css/src/*.css').pipe(
        postcss([
            require('postcss-short-text')({ /* options */ })
        ])
    ).pipe(
        gulp.dest('./css')
    );
});

Grunt

Add Grunt PostCSS to your build tool:

npm install grunt-postcss --save-dev

Enable Short Text within your Gruntfile:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-postcss');
 
grunt.initConfig({
    postcss: {
        options: {
            processors: [
                require('postcss-short-text')({ /* options */ })
            ]
        },
        dist: {
            src: 'css/*.css'
        }
    }
});

Options

prefix

Type: String
Default: null

Specifies a prefix to be surrounded by dashes before the declaration (e.g. -x-text).