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CSS Minifier

Shrink your CSS instantly — strip comments, whitespace, and bloat.

Options

Savings

Original size

1.1 KB

Minified size

774 B

Saved

309 B

Reduction

29%

Comments removedWhitespace strippedZero units shortenedHex colors shortenedTrailing semicolons removed
About

CSS Minifier strips comments, collapses whitespace, removes trailing semicolons, shortens hex colors, and eliminates zero units — all entirely in your browser without uploading a single byte. Paste raw CSS from your stylesheet or framework and get production-ready minified output in milliseconds, with a clear size-reduction report so you know exactly how much bandwidth you saved.

FAQ
What does CSS minification actually do?+

Minification removes everything a browser doesn't need to parse a stylesheet: comments, indentation, newlines, spaces around braces and colons, redundant semicolons before closing braces, and verbose values like '0px' (shortened to '0') or '#aabbcc' (shortened to '#abc'). The result is functionally identical CSS that transfers faster over the network.

Will minified CSS break my styles?+

No. Minification is a lossless process — it only removes characters that have no effect on how the browser renders the page. All selectors, properties, and values remain intact. If styles break after minification it usually means the original CSS had a syntax error that was masking a pre-existing issue.

What are license comments and why would I preserve them?+

License comments start with '/*!' and are used by open-source CSS libraries (Bootstrap, Normalize.css, etc.) to embed copyright and license notices. Some licenses legally require you to keep those notices in distributed files. The 'Preserve license comments' option keeps them intact while still removing all regular comments.

How much file size reduction can I expect?+

Typical hand-authored CSS shrinks by 20–40%. Verbose frameworks or files with lots of inline documentation can see 50% or more. On top of minification, serving CSS with gzip or Brotli compression (standard on most hosts) reduces transfer size further, and minified files compress even better than their unminified counterparts.

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