Beautify Your CSS Code – The Tools You Need

For me personally, it feels like easier to write CSS code manually, and it do work well. But not even after a bottle of wine (or something more manly) and a lottery win, I can, with good conscience, say that it looks beautiful. The code ends up messy, and deep in my mind I think I will fix it later – but usually it will never happen. The CSS file remains ugly as a statement of the coders laziness. But even for us, lazy webmasters, there is help.

Code beautifiers. Code optimizers. CSS organizers. These nice online services have many names and they all help you to clean up a messy CSS code – easy, fast and without any hassle. And today we are taking a quick look at a few online CSS services that can assist you in your tiresome quest to make your CSS code more beautiful and effective.

ProCSSor – Advanced CSS Prettifier

This CSS tool is new, and it proves that online CSS tools do not have to be cluttered with different promotions and other annoying distractions. ProCSSor has a stylish and user friendly, intuitive design. Qelix, the developers behind this tool, describe it like an “advanced CSS Prettifier with some unique formatting styles and several customizable options”. I like this tool because it is easy to use and it does what it promises to do.
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Styleneat – CSS Organizer

This CSS tool by Inmeres Solutions has been online for a while, and like ProCSSor it has a clean and functional design. It organizes and standardizes your CSS in a structure and makes it easier to define page areas and see how they relate to each other, and it also provides you with some additional (more or less practical) options like, for example, sorting CSS properties and selectors alphabetically and just a few more.
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Code Beautifier – CSS Formatter And Optimizer

This tool by Arkikstudio is based upon the famous and no longer maintained CSSTidy, and it is a bit less cleanly designed than the two CSS tools above, but still not bad and with a functional approach. It could shortly be described as an easy to use and time saving online CSS formatter, parser and optimizer. Just like the other tools in this article, also this CSS tool offers a fair amount of the usual but handy additional options.
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2 More New CSS Tools

The two following tools are actually not CSS code organizers – one of them, Stylebot, is not even an online tool. But they are kind of new and interesting enough to be rewarded with some attention, and we thought we should take this opportunity to mention them.

Instant CSS Code – Create a Web Project Framework
Instant CSS Code is a user friendly tool that allows you to create a custom framework with valid HTML or XHTML and CSS. You need only select options or modules from the list, and when you are ready you simply download your framework as a ZIP archive.

Stylebot – Chrome Extension
Stylebot is a Chrome extension. According to the developer, Ankit Ahuja, Stylebot aims to simplify customizing the web, making it more accessible and adaptable. With this tool you can analyze and modify CSS on any webpage and actually without writing any CSS code.

The CSS tools in this article are in a particular order. Usually we don’t rank the tools we present, because in the end it is just a personal opinion on what one feels comfortable to use. But anyway, this time we place the tools in the order we prefer them (except the two extra CSS tools in the end) – we rank them after usability, performance and design. But this is only according to our opinion, you might have a different.

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