fatal error: node_modules/css: property missing value near line 1:28445

[ukeboyska]

so i tried applying uncss to a new project, and now get this unexplained error when i run the task:

as far as i can tell, i applied the grunt task the same exact way i did in my other project, which works fine now. what would be causing this error?

[giakki]

That error should be caused by a syntax error in the CSS.
If you are sure that all the stylesheets are valid, could you please find which one causes that error, and look up which line/selector is reported, so I can look into it?
Thanks!

[ukeboyska]

@giakki .. since i'm using compass/sass/grunt to compile, it's impossible for the stylesheet to be invalid.

can you help me figure out how to find line 1:28445? i'm not sure how to interpret that...

[giakki]

Line 1:28445 could mean that the input stylesheets are minified and thus contain only one line.
The best way to find which one it is would be to pass non-minified stylesheets to UnCSS one at a time, so they don't get concatenated, and you can directly inspect which line is reported, or, if you can, simply share your CSS, so I can take a look myself ;)

[ukeboyska]

hey the problem was filter: ;

i was using a plugin's sass file (jquery textshadow), and it has an if statement that returns an empty filter value under certain conditions. i just added another if statement around it, and that helped!

works now! thanks again for your help

[giakki]

No problem, glad I could help!
I might add a more informative error in the next release ;)

[addyosmani]

Thanks for following up with more helpful error messages, @giakki! Closing this one.

[manjula-dube]

hey I am facing a problem in my css and i am using minified once.It just takes too long