Comments on: Stunningly Simple CSS Minifier

By: somethingkindawierd

somethingkindawierd — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:34:33 +0000

Very nice. I have a cleaning script I run when publishing my projects live. It reads all css files, merges them into 1, compresses them, then saves the production file.

For my most recent project CSSTidy was breaking the css and only saving 11%.

Using this simple function I was able to shave off 25.1% on the merged css files

Thanks for the post!

By: Guido Parakaz

Guido Parakaz — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:23:47 +0000

Uhhhm, if you use ASP.NET (yeah, Microsoft, I know), it gets a lot simpler with this:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/CombineAndMinify.aspx

It does JavaScript as well as CSS plus lots more performance enhancing stuff.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:56:57 +0000

Thanks man that is simple. And it works. Other scripts I’ve used blow out my webkit styles and only compress about 16%. Yours got me 17.7% savings!

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 04:01:05 +0000

Awesome post. I had tried using minify on my wordpress but everytime the CSS was minified using wp-minify plugin, the layout broke. Will try this now.

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By: Andrew Pennebaker

Andrew Pennebaker — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:04:07 +0000

Great post! You can minify CSS even more if you change the regexes to handle newlines as well as spaces.

Example:

$css = str_replace( ‘;\w+’, ‘;’, $css );

By: Terri Ann

Terri Ann — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:27:33 +0000

Thanks this was incredibly helpful to minify on the fly!

By: kerido

kerido — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:08:55 +0000

Hi. Your minifier is sure simple.
However, you use regular expressions. On my blog post I came up with a different approach. It’s faster and produces very compact output. Here’s the address: http://www.ko-sw.com/Blog/post/An-Ultra-Fast-CSS-Minify-Algorithm.aspx. The code is in C#, however, it can be easily converted to PHP. There is no fancy stuff there.
Anyway, thanks for the post!

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