QuickCSS

⚡️-fast tiny CSS management tool sprinkled with API sugar

Features

• fetch computed style values of elements.
• apply styles with either kebab-case or camel-case property names.
• automatic value conversion (width:10 === '10px')
• automatic browser prefixing
• global style registration
• animation registration
• check CSS browser support with .supports() and .supportsProperty()
• simple !important flag application
• global style levels (i.e. overriding styles)

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• Usage
• API
  • quickcss(element, property)
  • quickcss(element[], property, value[, important])
  • quickcss(element[], properties)
  • quickcss.animation(name, frames)
  • quickcss.register(rule[, level, important])
  • quickcss.clearRegisered([level])
  • quickcss.supports(property, value)
  • quickcss.supportsProperty(property)
  • quickcss.normalizeProperty(property)
  • quickcss.normalizeValue(property, value)
• Value normalization
• License

Usage

var quickcss = require('quickcss')
 
// Fetch *computed* styles
quickcss(element, 'width') //=> 133.92px
 
// Apply styles
quickcss(element, 'width', 100) //=> 100px
quickcss(element, 'height', '50%') //=> 50%
 
// Multiple element application
quickcss(elements, 'font-size', 18) //=> 18px
 
// Multiple style application
quickcss(element, {
    'position': 'fixed',
    'fontWeight': 600,
    'line-height': '1.3em'
})
 
// !important flag
quickcss(element, 'opacity', 0.5, true) //=> opacity:0.5 !important
 
// Deleting style
quickcss(element, 'position', null) //=> 'static'
 
// Animation registration (with auto-prefixing)
quickcss.animation('spin', {
    '0%': {
        'opacity': 0.2,
        'transform': 'rotate(0deg)'
    },
    '100%': {
        'opacity': 1,
        'transform': 'rotate(360deg)'
    }
})

API

quickcss(element, property)

Returns the element's computed value for the given property.

• element: DOM element object.
• property: CSS property in camel/kebab-case (font-size or fontSize).

// Assuming that {fontSize:'2.5em'}
quickcss(element, 'font-size') //=> 40px

quickcss(element[], property, value[, important])

Formats and applies value for the given property on element.

• element: DOM element object or an array of elements.
• property: CSS property in camel/kebab-case (font-size or fontSize).
• value: value that will be applied to property. For some properties, values will be normalized and translated to provide API sugar.
• important: optional boolean to control the addition of !important flag.

quickcss(element[], properties)

Iterates over properties, using the key as the property and applies its value to the element.

• element: DOM element object or an array of elements.
• properties: A {property:value} pair object.
  • property: CSS property in camel/kebab-case (font-size or fontSize).
  • value: value that will be applied to property.

quickcss(elements, {
    'background-color': '#0f0f0f',
    fontSize: 12,
    opacity: 0.2
})

quickcss.animation(name, frames)

Registers the provided animation which can be used globally on the page. All properties will be automatically prefixed if needed.

• name: name of the animation
• frames: an object containing {step:properties} pairs.
  • step: CSS step string e.g. 50%
  • properties: A {property:value} pair object.

quickcss.animation('spin', {
    '0%': {
        'transform': 'rotate(0deg)'
    },
    '100%': {
        'transform': 'rotate(360deg)'
    }
})
 
quickcss(element, 'animation', 'spin 200ms linear 0ms infinite')

quickcss.register(rule[, level, important])

Registers the provided rule object globally and returns the class name string which can be added to any element later.

• rule: A {property:value} pair object.
  • property: CSS property in camel/kebab-case (font-size or fontSize).
  • value: value that will be applied to property.
• level: the level to declare the rule under. The higher the level the higher the importance e.g. rules declared in level 2 will override rules declared in level 1 and 0. Default level is 0.
• important: boolean which when true will cause all declarations to be declared along with an !important flag.

var newClass = quickcss.register({
    width: 100,
    opacity: 0.5,
    color: '#000'
})
 
element.className += ` ${newClass}`
quickcss(element, 'width') //=> '100px'

quickcss.clearRegisered([level])

Clears/erases all of the globally registered rules for the given level.

• level: the target level to clear styles of. Default level is 0.

quickcss.supports(property, value)

Checks if the provided value is a valid value for property.

quickcss.supportsProperty(property)

Checks if the provided property is supported by the browser.

quickcss.normalizeProperty(property)

Converts the property name into kebeb-case e.g. 'fontSize' ->font-size``.

quickcss.normalizeValue(property, value)

Converts the value to a valid CSS value e.g. 50 ->50px``.

Value normalization

For many properites you can supply a value with typeof number instead of string (i.e. 10 vs "10px") and the value will be automatically normalized to a px string. These properties include width, height, margin-left, font-size, z-index, and more (refer to REQUIRES_UNIT_VALUE).

There is one property that receives slightly different normalization which is the line-height property. If a numerical value is provided, it will be converted to em.

quickcss(element, 'width', 10) //=> '10px'
quickcss(element, 'line-height', 10) //=> '10em'

License

MIT © Daniel Kalen