Compress CSS code
Monday, January 7th, 2008When you develop a website you know that you will always have to keep a balance between design and productivity. You need good working pages, easy layout, easy navigation, impressive design etc.
I’m not going to talk about every aspect today but I will share with you some of the tools I like to use when it comes to CSS, bandwith and a faster loading. More exactly, how to compress a CSS code without making the code to look so ugly and unreadable. If your design is based on a lightweight css code than I guess you shouldn’t worry about this but if you like to impress your visitors with visual elements, you can’t get it done without a big css file.
There are many CSS compression tools to find on the Internet at this moment like CSSTidy which takes your input (it must be a valid CSS code otherwise the result might fail to impress) and removes blank lines, comments etc. It has many options to work with.
Ok … so what is the point. The point is one that I’ve experienced a lot lately. I often decided to “parse and optimize” my CSS code using this tools but I changed my mind short after. Why? Because I do like to update my CSS’s, to add things, delete things and so on and, after using a tool like CSSTidy, my code was so hard to follow. I had only 1 line and I couldn’t find anything without using the CTRL + F magic trick. You lose time, development time.
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