CSS::Minifier(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation CSS::Minifier(3)NAMECSS::Minifier - Perl extension for minifying CSS
SYNOPSIS
To minify a CSS file and have the output written directly to another
file
use CSS::Minifierqw(minify);
open(INFILE, 'myStylesheet.css') or die;
open(OUTFILE, 'myStylesheet.css') or die;
minify(input => *INFILE, outfile => *OUTFILE);
close(INFILE);
close(OUTFILE);
To minify a CSS string literal. Note that by omitting the outfile
parameter a the minified code is returned as a string.
my minifiedCSS = minify(input => 'div {font-family: serif;}');
To include a copyright comment at the top of the minified code.
minify(input => 'div {font-family: serif;}', copyright => 'BSD License');
The "input" parameter is manditory. The "output" and "copyright"
parameters are optional and can be used in any combination.
DESCRIPTION
This module removes unnecessary whitespace from CSS. The primary
requirement developing this module is to not break working stylesheets:
if working CSS is in input then working CSS is output. The Mac/Internet
Explorer comment hack will be minimized but not stripped and so will
continue to function.
This module understands space, horizontal tab, new line, carriage
return, and form feed characters to be whitespace. Any other characters
that may be considered whitespace are not minimized. These other
characters include paragraph separator and vertical tab.
For static CSS files, it is recommended that you minify during the
build stage of web deployment. If you minify on-the-fly then it might
be a good idea to cache the minified file. Minifying static files on-
the-fly repeatedly is wasteful.
EXPORT
None by default.
Exportable on demand: minifiy()SEE ALSO
This project is developed using an SVN repository. To check out the
repository svn co http://dev.michaux.ca/svn/random/CSS-Minifier
You may also be interested in the JavaScript::Minifier module also
available on CPAN.
AUTHORS
Peter Michaux, <petermichaux@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2007 by Peter Michaux
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at
your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.14.0 2007-08-03 CSS::Minifier(3)