CSS Beautifier

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What is CSS beautification?

CSS beautification (or formatting) restructures minified or poorly indented CSS into a clean, readable format. Each rule set gets its own block, each property is placed on a separate line with consistent indentation, and proper spacing is added around selectors, braces, colons, and semicolons. This makes stylesheets much easier to scan, edit, and review. The reverse operation — minification — strips all whitespace, comments, and unnecessary characters to produce the smallest possible CSS file for production.

CSS property ordering

While CSS does not require properties in a specific order, many teams adopt a convention for consistency. Common approaches include: grouped by type — positioning (position, top, left), box model (display, margin, padding, width), typography (font-size, line-height, color), then visual (background, border, box-shadow). Alphabetical order is another popular approach used by Google's CSS style guide. Consistent property ordering reduces merge conflicts and makes it faster to locate specific declarations in large stylesheets.

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All formatting runs 100% in your browser. No CSS data is sent to any server.