📌 Overview

Beautify messy CSS into clean, indented rules or minify it for production. Keep stylesheets readable and shrink file size in one click.

🎨 CSS Formatter

Beautify messy CSS into clean, indented rules or minify it for production. Keep stylesheets readable and shrink file size in one click.

CSS

Paste CSS and choose an action.

🔒 All processing happens in your browser. No data is uploaded to any server.

📋 How to Use

Paste your CSS into the box.
Click "Format" to beautify or "Minify" to compress.
Copy the result.
Use beautify for editing, minify for shipping.

❓ FAQ

Does it preserve media queries and selectors?

Yes. The formatter keeps all selectors, nested blocks and media queries intact — it only adjusts whitespace and indentation.

Is minified CSS still valid?

Yes. Minify removes comments and unnecessary whitespace while keeping the rules functionally identical.

Will it fix broken CSS?

No. It formats valid CSS; syntax errors should be fixed before formatting.

❓ More Questions

Are media queries and selectors preserved?

Yes - formatting only adjusts whitespace and indentation; selectors, nested blocks, and media queries are kept as-is.

Is minified CSS still usable?

Yes - minifying only removes comments and extra whitespace; the rules keep working.

💡 Use Cases

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Clean Up

Tidy copied or generated CSS.

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Ship Faster

Minify before deploying.

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Review

Read third-party stylesheets.

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📖 Deep Dive: CSS Formatter

Why format CSS

CSS copied from elsewhere is often jammed together, hard to maintain and debug. Consistent indentation greatly improves readability; minifying on release shrinks size and speeds up loading.

How it works

The tool breaks lines at braces and semicolons and indents level by level to beautify; when minifying it strips comments and extra whitespace, but always keeps selectors and declarations intact.

A quick example

Paste a 30-line minified CSS, click Format, and you get clearly nested rules - locating a class becomes effortless.