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CSS

Kellan Faker-Boyle
Kellan Faker-Boyle
4,393 Points
Posted by Kellan Faker-Boyle
Kellan Faker-Boyle
4,393 Points

Can you reverse a compressed CSS file?

Often when I try to understand how CSS is written from existing websites, they have already compressed their CSS and it is very hard to read. Is it possible to reverse the compressed CSS without the original SCSS/Sass files, in order to make it read like nested or expanded CSS?

Thanks!

2 Answers

Szabolcs Szána
Szabolcs Szána
6,961 Points
Szabolcs Szána
Szabolcs Szána
6,961 Points

Hi,

Maybe try this: http://mrcoles.com/blog/css-unminify/

Mike Wagner
Mike Wagner
23,559 Points
Mike Wagner
Mike Wagner
23,559 Points

Yes, there are lots of sites online, extensions for most of the popular text editors, and a lot of programs have the functionality built in to make this possible. I'm not sure which editor you use, so I can't offer any insight into that way of doing it, but CodePen's online environment has a nifty little "tidy CSS" feature that will take a minified file and expand it out in the little window for you. I haven't had any issues using it for CSS.