postcss-simple-svg

PostCSS plug-in which to insert inline SVG to CSS and allows you to manage it colors. Examples here

Features:

• Easy insert inline SVG to CSS
• Manage colors of your SVG image without editinig it
• Symbols sprites support
• Compression with svgo
• Support Evil Icons from box

Installation

npm install postcss-simple-svg --save-dev

Usage

PostCSS:

//...
var postcss = require('postcss');
var postcssSVG = require('postcss-simple-svg');
var processors = [
  //... ,
  postcssSVG({
    paths: ['pathToSVGDir1', 'pathToSVGDir2'],
    defaults: "[fill]: #000000",
    //more options...
  });
];
 
postcss(processors)
  .process(css, { from: './src/app.css', to: './dist/app.css' })
  .then(function (result) {
    fs.writeFileSync('./dist/app.css', result.css);
  });

Gulp:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var postcss = require('gulp-postcss');
 
gulp.task('styles', function() {
  var postcssProcessors;
  postcssSVG = require.reload('postcss-simple-svg');
  postcssProcessors = [
    postcssSVG({ defaults: '[fill]: green' })
  ];
 
  gulp.src('app/style.css')
    .pipe(postcss(postcssProcessors))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('.tmp'));
});

Using this input.css:

body {
  background-image: svg("icon__filter", "[fill]: black");
}

you will get:

body {
  background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20id%3D%22ei-sc-github-icon%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2050%2050%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20style%3D%22fill%3Ablack%3B%22%20height%3D%22100%25%22%20width%3D%22100%25%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill-rule%3D%22evenodd%22%20clip-rule%3D%22evenodd%22%20d%3D%22M25%2010c-8.3%200-15%206.7-15%2015%200%206.6%204.3%2012.2%2010.3%2014.2.8.1%201-.3%201-.7v-2.6c-4.2.9-5.1-2-5.1-2-.7-1.7-1.7-2.2-1.7-2.2-1.4-.9.1-.9.1-.9%201.5.1%202.3%201.5%202.3%201.5%201.3%202.3%203.5%201.6%204.4%201.2.1-1%20.5-1.6%201-2-3.3-.4-6.8-1.7-6.8-7.4%200-1.6.6-3%201.5-4-.2-.4-.7-1.9.1-4%200%200%201.3-.4%204.1%201.5%201.2-.3%202.5-.5%203.8-.5%201.3%200%202.6.2%203.8.5%202.9-1.9%204.1-1.5%204.1-1.5.8%202.1.3%203.6.1%204%201%201%201.5%202.4%201.5%204%200%205.8-3.5%207-6.8%207.4.5.5%201%201.4%201%202.8v4.1c0%20.4.3.9%201%20.7%206-2%2010.2-7.6%2010.2-14.2C40%2016.7%2033.3%2010%2025%2010z%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E");
}

Options

paths

Type: Array Default: ['svg'] Example: ['pathToSVGDir1', 'pathToSVGDir2'] Required: false

You can define relative path to folders with SVG files.

func

Type: String Default: 'svg' Example: 'url' Required: false

You can set func option to 'url' to support fallback to url("*.svg") links.

svgo

Type: Boolean, Object Default: false Example: true Required: false

You can set custom config for svgo module. Recommend to set true only for production build.

defaults

Type: String Default: '' Example: '[fill]: #00F800; .glass[fill]: rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.1);' Required: false

You can set default rules for all included SVG

ei

Type: Boolean, Object Default: true Example: { "dfaults": "[fill]: red" } Required: false

You can set false to disable initializing Evil Icons. Or you can set different defaults only for Evil Icons.

debug

Type: Boolean Default: false Required: false

You can set false to disable initializing Evil Icons. Or you can set different defaults only for Evil Icons.

silent

Type: Boolean Default: true Required: false Do not throw errors

Colors API

You can replace only existing values of fill and stroke attributes.

To replace colors you can use simple selectors.

You can use several selectors for one SVG.

In the bottom you can see this selectors in ascending order.

For better understanding of selectors check examples.

Selectors:

[color]

All fill and stroke attributes

[fill]|[stroke]

All fill or stroke attributes

tagName[fill]|tagName[stroke]

fill or stroke tag attributes with name tagName

.className[fill]|.className[stroke]

fill or stroke tag attributes with class className

colorGroupN

All colors in SVG are grouped in color groups. N - group index, starts from 0 (from the top of SVG document)

#identifier[fill]|#identifier[stroke]

fill or stroke tag attributes with id identifier

colorN

All colors in SVG have index. N - index, starts from 0 (from the top of SVG document)

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. To run development envirement

git clone [e-mail]:taunoha/postcss-simple-svg.git
cd postcss-simple-svg
npm install
gulp watch