simple-css

Parse out simple css rules for classes, ids, and tag names

This module was made to be used with facebook-layout so it converts relevant properties into numbers, and expands shorthand properties when needed.

Installing

npm install --save simple-css

Example

style.css:

.class-name {
	height: 100px;
	padding: 10px 0px;
}
div {
	background: #FFF;
	margin-left: 10px;
}
#myelement {
	flex-direction: column;
	box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 4px 0px rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5);
	border-width: 3px;
}
div {
	color: red;
}

index.js:

var fs = require("fs");
var simpleCSS = require("simple-css");


var style_text = fs.readFileSync("style.css", "utf8");

var style_map = Parser.parse(style_text);
console.log(style_map);

output:

{
	".class-name": {
		"height": 100,
		"paddingTop": 10,
		"paddingRight": 0,
		"paddingBottom": 10,
		"paddingLeft": 0
	},
	"div": {
		"background": "FFF",
		"marginLeft": 10,
		"color": "red"
	},
	"#myelement": {
		"flexDirection": "column",
		"boxShadow": "inset 1px 1px 4px 0px rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5)",
		"borderWidth": "3px",
		"borderTopwidth": 3,
		"borderRightwidth": 3,
		"borderBottomwidth": 3,
		"borderLeftwidth": 3
	}
}

How it works

The library parses out rules from a stylesheet, and considers the entire query part as one thing. The point is to limit your rules to only apply on simple selectors that just match a single class, id, or tag.

If there are rules that have the same query, they are merged together, with the properties in the later rule overwriting the earlier one, just like it does in the browser.

The properties for each rule are then turned into an object that's similar to Element.style in that the property is converted to camelCase. The actual values, however usually remain unchanged.

Since this is meant to work with the css-layout module, certain properties are parsed to make it easier for that library to consume them.

Specifically: margin, padding, and border-width are converted into the longer "marginTop, marginLeft, etc" form.

width, height, flex, top, bottom, left, right, and the previously mentioned properties are converted to JavaScript numbers. Be careful because px, %, and em are converted to the same number.

Warning

The parser isn't very smart, so try not to feed it malformed CSS.