Any recommendations for a CSS minifier? [closed]

Question

Any recommendations for a CSS minifier?

I’ll be rooting around Google and trying some out, but I suspected that the smart, proficient and curiously handsome StackOverflow community might have already evaluated the pros and cons of the heavyweights.

Answer 1

Perl has CSS::Minifier (and an XS version for extra speed).

Answer 2

There is a codeplex project that will plug in to .net websites that will minify and compress the CSS and the JS files. There is also a comparison between the Microsoft AJAX Minifier and the YUI Compressor which shows the YUI coming out slightly better. There is an extra variation which combines the Microsoft Minifier and compression which drastically srunk the file.

Anyway the link is http://xpedite.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Minifier%20(CSS%2FJavaScript%20Minification%20Handlers)

Answer 3

If you are looking for an online tool, try this: https://csscompressor.net/

Answer 4

If your site is in ASP.NET, you can let your site do the CSS minification on the fly (so you don't have to do it manually each time you make a change). For example with this:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/CombineAndMinify.aspx

Answer 5

CSSO is currently best minifier/optimizer.

Answer 6

This is how I did it for MVC3: http://mkramar.blogspot.com/2011/08/css-and-javascript-minify-and-combine.html The beauty of this approach is that it does it all on the fly and you don't have to pre-process files manually or configure post-build.