Can I strip all the contents of a CSS file?

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I would like to strip all the styles but leave all the selectors in the TwentyEleven theme for WordPress, so basically anything between {} in the file. Preferably using Textmate but any guidance will be helpful.

Why? Empty rule definitions are rather pointless. – Marc B Apr 07 '12 at 18:59 — Marc B, Apr 07 '12 at 18:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 07 '12 at 19:04

TextMate supports multi-line regular expressions, so you should be able to match everything inside { and }, including newlines, and replace them.

I've never used TextMate, but glancing at their documentation indicates this should be possible.

The regex might look something like:

(?m{[^}]*})

Replaced with

{ }

Note: the ?m turns on multi-line matching - see the docs I linked.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 07 '12 at 19:01

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Perhaps what you want to do a is a regular expression search. This should also show you how to do such a search using TextMate.

answered Apr 07 '12 at 19:01

cereallarceny

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 07 '12 at 19:02

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If Textmate supports regex replacement then you could replace everything that matches \{.*\} with {}. Should do the trick :)

answered Apr 07 '12 at 19:02

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Read the replace part, replace `{*whatever*}` with `{}` – Andreas Hagen Apr 10 '12 at 06:03

Can I strip all the contents of a CSS file?

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