CSS Property Sorter Script

Installation

pip install sortcss.py

Setup for Vim

1. Create ~/.vim/ftplugin/css.vim if it's not existed yet.
2. Open ~/.vim/ftplugin/css.vim and add new lines below:

" CSS Property Sorter Script (:SortCSS to run)
command! -range=% -nargs=* SortCSS :<line1>,<line2>!python /path/to/sortcss.py <f-args>

Usage

Command-line options

usage: sortcss.py [-h] [-g] [--css-props-file [CSS_PROPS_FILE]]
                  [INFILE] [OUTFILE]

positional arguments:
  INFILE                Input file
  OUTFILE               Output file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -g, --group           group properties
  --css-props-file [CSS_PROPS_FILE]
                        use custom CSS properties list file

CSS properties list file

You can use custom list by supplying the file to sortcss.py, the basic format is:

# comment
margin
padding

background
color

The order of properties is the order thatsortcss.py sort by and the blank line also indicates separate groups. If you have -g, then sortcss.py will insert a blank line between the groups.

Usage in Vim

1. Open a CSS file in Vim.
2. Turn in to Visual mode.
3. Select CSS definition(s). At least 1 set of { to }.
4. Type :SortCSS and return.

This will automatically sort your CSS properties.

Notes

• You can just type :SortCSS so that entire properties will be sorted in a file.
• You can also append arguments as if using sortcss.py directly, e.g. :SortCSS -g for grouping.

Credits

You can find more information about the script below: http://lab.youck.org/css-property-order.html

This script is based on Kyo Nagashima's Perl script: http://hail2u.net/blog/coding/perl-sort-css-properties.html

• Yu-Jie Lin, http://yjl.im
• Yu I., Twitter @japboy
• Kyo Nagashima kyo@hail2u.net, http://hail2u.net/
• xaicron, http://blog.livedoor.jp/xaicron/

License

MIT License, see COPYING