Tidy CSS for Notepad++

Question

Is there some kind of CSS tidy available for Notepad++. I have tried what seems to be every menu item in TEXTFX but none seem to do it. I am used to using PSPAD where you just s

Answer 1

I was looking for this functionality myself, so I wrote this pair of regex search-and-replace based macros for Notepad++. Format CSS formats a CSS document while Minify CSS makes it smaller.

To install them, locate your shortcuts.xml file, usually at

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml

and paste the whole block into the block.

You need to use another editor than Notepad++, OR close Notepad++ by killing the process after you edit this file. Otherwise, Notepad++ will overwrite the file on close.

After installing, you can run those macros from the Macros menu in Notepad++, as well as rename them or assign hotkeys using Edit shortcut/delete macro.

In case someone finds a css for which this script doesn't work, please make a paste and post the link in the comments so I can look at it.

Macro source XML