UnCSS

UnCSS is a tool that removes unused CSS from your stylesheets. It works across multiple files and supports Javascript-injected CSS.

How?

The process by which UnCSS removes the unused rules is as follows:

1. The HTML files are loaded by PhantomJS and JavaScript is executed.
2. All the stylesheets are parsed by PostCSS.
3. document.querySelector filters out selectors that are not found in the HTML files.
4. The remaining rules are converted back to CSS.

Installation:

npm install -g uncss

Usage

Within Node.js:

var uncss = require('uncss');
 
var files   = ['my', 'array', 'of', 'HTML', 'files', 'or', 'http://urls.com'],
    options = {
        ignore       : ['#added_at_runtime', /test\-[0-9]+/],
        media        : ['(min-width: 700px) handheld and (orientation: landscape)'],
        csspath      : '../public/css/',
        raw          : 'h1 { color: green }',
        stylesheets  : ['lib/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css', 'src/public/css/main.css'],
        ignoreSheets : [/fonts.googleapis/],
        timeout      : 1000,
        htmlroot     : 'public',
        report       : false,
        uncssrc      : '.uncssrc'
    };
 
uncss(files, options, function (error, output) {
    console.log(output);
});
 
/* Look Ma, no options! */
uncss(files, function (error, output) {
    console.log(output);
});
 
/* Specifying raw HTML */
var rawHtml = '...';
 
uncss(rawHtml, options, function (error, output) {
    console.log(output);
});

At build-time

UnCSS can also be used in conjunction with other javascript build systems, such as Grunt, Broccoli or Gulp!

• grunt-uncss – Thanks to @addyosmani
• gulp-uncss – Thanks to @ben-eb
• broccoli-uncss - Thanks to @sindresorhus

From the command line:

Usage: uncss [options] <file or URL, ...>
    e.g. uncss http://getbootstrap.com/examples/jumbotron/ > stylesheet.css
 
Options:
 
  -h, --help                            output usage information
  -V, --version                         output the version number
  -i, --ignore <selector, ...>          Do not remove given selectors
  -m, --media <media_query, ...>        Process additional media queries
  -C, --csspath <path>                  Relative path where the CSS files are located
  -s, --stylesheets <file, ...>         Specify additional stylesheets to process
  -S, --ignoreSheets <selector, ...>    Do not include specified stylesheets
  -r, --raw <string>                    Pass in a raw string of CSS
  -t, --timeout <milliseconds>          Wait for JS evaluation
  -H, --htmlroot <folder>               Absolute paths' root location
  -u, --uncssrc <file>                  Load these options from <file>

Note that you can pass both local file paths (which are processed by glob) and URLs to the program.

• ignore (Array): provide a list of selectors that should not be removed by UnCSS. For example, styles added by user interaction with the page (hover, click), since those are not detectable by UnCSS yet. Both literal names and regex patterns are recognized. Otherwise, you can add a comment before specific selectors:

  /* uncss:ignore */
  .selector1 {
      /* this rule will be ignored */
  }
   
  .selector2 {
      /* this will NOT be ignored */
  }

• media (Array): By default UnCSS processes only stylesheets with media query "all", "screen", and those without one. Specify here which others to include.

• csspath (String): Path where the CSS files are related to the HTML files. By default, UnCSS uses the path specified in the <link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/file.css"/>.

• stylesheets (Array): Use these stylesheets instead of those extracted from the HTML files.

• ignoreSheets (Array): Do not process these stylesheets, e.g. Google fonts. Accepts strings or regex patterns.

• raw (String): Give the task a raw string of CSS in addition to the existing stylesheet options; useful in scripting when your CSS hasn't yet been written to disk.

• timeout (Number): Specify how long to wait for the JS to be loaded.

• htmlroot (String): Where the project root is. Useful for example if you are running UnCSS on local files that have absolute href to the stylesheets, i.e. href="/css/style.css".

• report (Boolean): Return the report object in callback.

• uncssrc (String): Load all options from a JSON file. Regular expressions for the ignore and ignoreSheets options should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  Example uncssrc file:

  {
      "ignore": [
          ".unused",
          "/^#js/"
      ],
      "stylesheets": [
          "css/override.css"
      ]
  }

As a PostCSS Plugin

UnCSS can be used as a PostCSS Plugin.

postcss([ require('postcss-uncss').postcssPlugin ]);

See PostCSS docs for examples for your environment.

Note: Depending on your environment, you might not be able to use giakki/uncss as a PostCSS plugin since the plugin is not directly exported. In such cases, use the wrapper library postcss-uncss.

Options

• html (Array): provide a list of html files to parse for selectors and elements. Usage of globs is allowed.

• ignore (Array): provide a list of selectors that should not be removed by UnCSS. For example, styles added by user interaction with the page (hover, click), since those are not detectable by UnCSS yet. Both literal names and regex patterns are recognized. Otherwise, you can add a comment before specific selectors in your css:

  /* uncss:ignore */
  .selector1 {
      /* this rule will be ignored */
  }
   
  .selector2 {
      /* this will NOT be ignored */
  }

Example Configuration

{
  html: ['index.html', 'about.html', 'team/*.html'],
  ignore: ['.fade']
}

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Giacomo Martino. See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (MIT).