block-opening-brace-newline-before.md

Pattern: Malformed newline before { of block

Issue: -

Description

Require a newline or disallow whitespace before the opening brace of blocks.

Examples

"always"

There must always be a newline before the opening brace.

The following patterns are considered violations:

a{ color: pink; }

a{ color: pink;
}

The following patterns are not considered violations:

a
{ color: pink; }

a
{
color: pink; }

a /* foo */
  {
    color: pink;
  }

"always-single-line"

There must always be a newline before the opening brace in single-line blocks.

The following patterns are considered violations:

a{ color: pink; }

The following patterns are not considered violations:

a
{ color: pink; }

a{
color: pink; }

"never-single-line"

There must never be whitespace before the opening brace in single-line blocks.

The following patterns are considered violations:

a { color: pink; }

The following patterns are not considered violations:

a{ color: pink; }

a {
color: pink; }

"always-multi-line"

There must always be a newline before the opening brace in multi-line blocks.

The following patterns are considered violations:

a{
color: pink; }

a {
color: pink; }

The following patterns are not considered violations:

a{ color: pink; }

a { color: pink; }

a
{ color: pink; }

a
{
color: pink; }

"never-multi-line"

There must never be whitespace before the opening brace in multi-line blocks.

The following patterns are considered violations:

a {
color: pink; }

The following patterns are not considered violations:

a { color: pink; }

a{
color: pink;}

Further Reading

• stylelint - block-opening-brace-newline-before