Comments on: How can I strip out extraneous CSS rules from my stylesheets?

Question: How can I strip out extraneous CSS rules from my stylesheets?

jeremias — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:54:49 -0800

How can I strip out extraneous CSS rules from my stylesheets?

I've got an external css file that I've modified quite extensively and it's also quite long. I would like to compare the rules in the css file with the div and class tags that I've added in my html and then discard all the css rules that don't apply. So this isn't CSS optimizing like CSS Tidy . . .

Is there anything either on or offline that will allow me to do this?

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:38:17 -0800

CSS Redundancy Checker

By: fishfucker

fishfucker — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:54:57 -0800

great link rhomboid!

i want to point out that a few posts later, he links a css redundancy checker that doesn't require a ruby interpreter, but instead, runs with greasemonkey in your browser

By: jeremias

jeremias — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:03:04 -0800

Perfecto!
Thanks to both of you, I love it when a plan comes together . . .

By: Wasabunchi

Wasabunchi — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:24:14 -0800

While this may not do exactly what you're asking, the CSS Superdouche is a pretty handy little CSS optimizer.

By: tmcw

tmcw — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:56:37 -0800

Wohoo, I made that one.

By: jeremias

jeremias — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:16:00 -0800

To answer my question, I also found this extension recently, it looks pretty well documented, Dust-Me selectors.