Any recommendations for a CSS minifier? [closed]

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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

There's also a .NET port of YUI Compressor which allows you to:-

• intergrate the minification/file combining into Visual Studio post-build events
• intergrate into a TFS Build (including CI)
• if you wish to just use the dll's in your own code (eg. on the fly minification).

UPDATE 2011: And it's now available via NuGet also :)

Answer 2

Check out CSSTidy: http://csstidy.sourceforge.net/usage.php

And online at: http://cdburnerxp.se/cssparse/css_optimiser.php

Answer 3

I find that isnoop's CSS SuperScrub works very well. It can only handle direct links to CSS online though :/ You can get around that though by using your preferred pastebin service to hold the css code and just giving SuperScrub the raw link.

Answer 4

An online tool (much better than www.csscompressor.net which jacked my css up): http://www.cssdrive.com/compressor/compress.php does an excellent job.

Answer 5

I like Minify. In PHP and works with CSS or JavaScript.

Answer 6

I've written an ultra fast CSS minifier in C#. The algorithm does not handle Javascript though. Thy this: http://www.ko-sw.com/Blog/post/An-Ultra-Fast-CSS-Minify-Algorithm.aspx.