Is there an app to automatically format CSS files?

Question

I have a compressed CSS file (all whitespace removed) that I want to inspect, but it's a huge pain inspecting it as-is. Is there any utility (preferably linux command line) that I can run the file through to format it nicely?

Answer 1

The online service that Dave Newman mentioned has been converted into a Node.js script, which you can run on the command-line. If you have NPM installed you can just do:

npm install -g cssunminifier

And it’s pretty versatile how you can use it. Here are 3 different examples:

cssunminifier style.min.css style.css
cssunminifier --width=8 style.min.css
curl http://cdn.sstatic.net/stackoverflow/all.css | cssunminifier - | less

Here’s more info on the command-line css unminifier

Answer 2

Try this online service.

You can also inspect any compressed file in Firebug.

Answer 3

These programs are called 'beautifiers'. You should be able to google one that fits for you.