CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
This function is useful to reduce download time on large CSS style sheets, all unnecessary spaces are removed, pages will load faster. And your lovely CSS wont be ripped off as easily.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfoutput>
<cfsavecontent variable="css">
    .TextBig {
        font-size : 12pt;
        font-weight : normal;
        font-family : arial;
    }
    .TextSmall {
        font-size : 9pt;
        font-weight : normal;
        font-family : arial;
    }
    .TextTiny, SMALL {
        font-weight : normal;
        font-size : 8pt;
        font-family : helvetica;
    }
</cfsavecontent>

<b>Before:</b><br>
&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;
#HtmlCodeFormat(css)#
&lt;/style&gt;
<p>
<b>After:</b><br>
&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;
#cssCompactFormat(css)#
&lt;/style&gt;

</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Replaces all unnecessary characters from a section of CSS code.
 * 
 * @param sInput      CSS you want to compress. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Jordan Clark (JordanClark@Telus.net) 
 * @version 1, November 19, 2002 
 */
function CssCompactFormat(sInput) {
  sInput = reReplace( sInput, "[[:space:]]{2,}", " ", "all" );
  sInput = reReplace( sInput, "/\*[^\*]+\*/", " ", "all" );
  sInput = reReplace( sInput, "[ ]*([:{};,])[ ]*", "\1", "all" );
  return sInput;
}