StyleTidy

StyleTidy is a CSS file reformatter written by Rico Sta. Cruz, released under the MIT license. It takes any valid CSS code such as the one below:

#search
#header { color: red; background: #ff0;} .item h3 {
  clear: left; position:   absolute;
  }

And turns it into something cleaner (the clean preset shown below):

#search #header          { color: red; background: #ff0; }
.item h3                 { clear: left; position: absolute; }

Or even perhaps (the verbose preset shown below):

#search #header {
   color:       red;
   background:  #ff0;
}

.item h3 {
   clear:       left;
   position:    absolute;
}

Many options are available so you can format your CSS code into any common coding and indentation style.

Installation

First, download StyleTidy. You can get it from the StyleTidy GitHub page, or cloning the repository via git:

git clone git://github.com/rstacruz/styletidy.git

Next, copy (or symlink) styletidy.php into styletidy somewhere in your path. That is:

• Installing for just the active user: (assuming ~/bin is in your $PATH)
  cp styletidy.php ~/bin/styletidy

• Installing for all users:
  cp styletidy.php /usr/local/bin/styletidy

Doing a symlink is recommended if you did the git clone line above -- that way, you can simply do git pull to upgrade StyleTidy). You can do this by replacing cp from the lines above with ln -s.

Getting started

You can get basic usage info through:

styletidy --help

The StyleTidy manual (very crude at the moment!) can be accessed here: http://ricostacruz.com/styletidy/manual/