necolas / postcss-custom-properties

PostCSS plugin to transform W3C CSS Custom Properties for cascading variables

postcss-custom-properties

PostCSS plugin to transform W3C CSS Custom Properties for cascading variables syntax to more compatible CSS.

N.B. For now the transformation is not complete. It currently just aims to provide a future-proof way of using a limited subset (to :root selector) of the features provided by native CSS custom properties.

Checkout opened issue to know the state of this plugin.

Works great with postcss-calc.

Installation

$ npm install postcss-custom-properties

Usage

// dependencies
var fs = require("fs")
var postcss = require("postcss")
var customProperties = require("postcss-custom-properties")

// css to be processed
var css = fs.readFileSync("input.css", "utf8")

// process css using postcss-custom-properties
var output = postcss()
  .use(customProperties())
  .process(css)
  .css

Using this input.css:

:root {
  --color: red;
}

div {
  color: var(--color);
}

you will get:

div {
  color: red;
}

Checkout tests for more.

Options

preserve (default: false)

Allow you to preserve custom properties & var() usage in output.

var out = postcss()
  .use(customProperties({preserve: true}))
  .process(css)
  .css

variables (default: {})

Allow you to pass an object of variables

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Contributing

Work on a branch, install dev-dependencies, respect coding style & run tests before submitting a bug fix or a feature.

$ git clone https://github.com/postcss/postcss-custom-properties.git
$ git checkout -b patch-1
$ npm install
$ npm test

Changelog

License