Format CSS
Beautify messy or minified CSS with clean indentation, or minify it for production, in a code editor with syntax highlighting. Free and private.
- Files never leave your device
- Free, no sign-up
- No watermark
About CSS Formatter
Turn minified or messy CSS into readable, consistently indented code, or compress it for production. Paste your stylesheet into the code editor, choose beautify or minify and your indentation, and get clean output with syntax highlighting that you can copy or download. Formatting is done by js-beautify running in your browser, so your code is never uploaded.
How to use CSS Formatter
- 1
Paste your CSS into the editor.
- 2
Choose to beautify or minify and set the indentation.
- 3
Review the formatted output.
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Copy or download the result.
Why use this tool
- Beautify and minify modes.
- Code editor with syntax highlighting.
- Adjustable indentation.
- Copy or download the output.
- Runs locally with js-beautify.
Frequently asked questions
Readable CSS is easier to debug, review and maintain, especially when it came from a minified file.
Minified CSS is smaller, which makes pages load faster.
No. Only whitespace and layout change; rules and values stay the same.
Plain SCSS often formats fine, but complex nesting and mixins are best formatted by your editor.
No. Everything is processed in your browser tab. Nothing you type or paste is sent to CodeMites or any other server.
Yes. There is no account, no watermark and no usage limit. The tool runs in your own browser, so there is no server cost to charge you for.
Yes. It runs in any modern browser on Android and iOS as well as on Windows, macOS and Linux, with nothing to install.
Yes. The CSS Formatter gives you plain CSS, so it works in stylesheets, CSS modules, styled-components or inline styles in any framework.
Yes. Anything you create with this tool is yours to use in personal and commercial work, with no attribution required.
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