Modular HTML minifier, built on top of the PostHTML. Inspired by cssnano.
The author of htmlnano is available for hire as a full stack web developer: https://kirillmaltsev.net/services
| Website | Source (KB) | html-minifier@4.0.0 | htmlnano@0.2.6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| stackoverflow.blog | 76 | 67 | 66 |
| github.com | 131 | 70 | 117 |
| en.wikipedia.org | 80 | 71 | 76 |
| npmjs.com | 31 | 25 | 28 |
| Avg. minify rate | 0% | 22% | 10% |
npm install --save-dev gulp-htmlnanoconst gulp = require('gulp');
const htmlnano = require('gulp-htmlnano');
const options = {
removeComments: false
};
gulp.task('default', function() {
return gulp
.src('./index.html')
.pipe(htmlnano(options))
.pipe(gulp.dest('./build'));
});const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
const options = {
removeEmptyAttributes: false, // Disable the module "removeEmptyAttributes"
collapseWhitespace: 'conservative' // Pass options to the module "collapseWhitespace"
};
// posthtml, posthtml-render, and posthtml-parse options
const postHtmlOptions = {
sync: true, // https://github.com/posthtml/posthtml#usage
lowerCaseTags: true, // https://github.com/posthtml/posthtml-parser#options
quoteAllAttributes: false, // https://github.com/posthtml/posthtml-render#options
};
htmlnano
// "preset" arg might be skipped (see "Presets" section below for more info)
// "postHtmlOptions" arg might be skipped
.process(html, options, preset, postHtmlOptions)
.then(function (result) {
// result.html is minified
})
.catch(function (err) {
console.error(err);
});Just add htmlnano as a final plugin:
const posthtml = require('posthtml');
const options = {
removeComments: false, // Disable the module "removeComments"
collapseWhitespace: 'conservative' // Pass options to the module "collapseWhitespace"
};
const posthtmlPlugins = [
/* other PostHTML plugins */
require('htmlnano')(options)
];
const postHtmlOptions = {
// See PostHTML docs
};
posthtml(posthtmlPlugins)
.process(html, posthtmlOptions)
.then(function (result) {
// result.html is minified
})
.catch(function (err) {
console.error(err);
});A preset is just an object with modules config.
Currently the following presets are available:
- safe — a default preset for minifying a regular HTML in a safe way (without breaking anything)
- ampSafe - same as
safepreset but for AMP pages - max - maximal minification (might break some pages)
You can use them the following way:
const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
const ampSafePreset = require('htmlnano').presets.ampSafe;
const options = {
// Your options
};
htmlnano
.process(html, options, ampSafePreset)
.then(function (result) {
// result.html is minified
})
.catch(function (err) {
console.error(err);
});If you skip preset argument safe preset would be used by default.
If you'd like to define your very own config without any presets pass an empty object as a preset:
const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
const options = {
// Your options
};
htmlnano
.process(html, options, {})
.then(function (result) {
// result.html is minified
})
.catch(function (err) {
console.error(err);
});You might create also your own presets:
const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
// Preset for minifying email templates
const emailPreset = {
mergeStyles: true,
minifyCss: {
safe: true
},
};
const options = {
// Some specific options
};
htmlnano
.process(html, options, emailPreset)
.then(function (result) {
// result.html is minified
})
.catch(function (err) {
console.error(err);
});Feel free to submit a PR with your preset if it might be useful for other developers as well.
By default the modules should only perform safe transforms, see the module documentation below for details.
You can disable modules by passing false as option, and enable them by passing true.
Collapse redundant white spaces in list-like attributes (class, rel, ping).
Source:
<div class=" content page "></div>Minified:
<div class="content page"></div>Collapses redundant white spaces (including new lines). It doesn’t affect white spaces in the elements <style>, <textarea>, <script> and <pre>.
conservative— collapses all redundant white spaces to 1 space (default)aggressive— removes newlines and tabs, collapses remaining whitespaces to 1 space.all— collapses all redundant white spaces
aggressive
<i>hello</i> <i>world</i> after minification will be rendered as helloworld.
To prevent this include at least one real space character between the tags.
all
<i>hello</i> <i>world</i> after minification will be rendered as helloworld.
To prevent that use either the default conservative option, or the aggressive option.
Source:
<div>
hello world!
\t<a href="#">answer</a>
<style>div { color: red; } </style>
\t\t<main></main>
</div>Minified (with all):
<div>hello world!<a href="#">answer</a><style>div { color: red; } </style><main></main></div>Minified (with aggressive):
<div> hello world! <a href="#">answer</a> <style>div { color: red; } </style><main></main></div>Minified (with conservative):
<div> hello world! <a href="#">answer</a> <style>div { color: red; } </style> <main></main> </div>Remove duplicate values from list-like attributes (class, rel, ping).
Source:
<div class="sidebar left sidebar"></div>Minified:
<div class="sidebar left"></div>safe– removes all HTML comments except the conditional comments and<!--noindex--><!--/noindex-->(default)all— removes all HTML comments
Source:
<div><!-- test --></div>Minified:
<div></div>Removes empty safe-to-remove attributes.
This module could break your styles or JS if you use selectors with attributes:
img[style=""] {
margin: 10px;
}Source:
<img src="foo.jpg" alt="" style="">Minified:
<img src="foo.jpg" alt="">Removes unused CSS inside <style> tags with either uncss
or PurgeCSS.
See the documentation of uncss for all supported options.
uncss options can be passed directly to the removeUnusedCss module:
htmlnano.process(html, {
removeUnusedCss: {
ignore: ['.do-not-remove']
}
});The following uncss options are ignored if passed to the module:
stylesheetsignoreSheetsraw
Use PurgeCSS instead of uncss by adding tool: 'purgeCSS' to the options.
See the documentation of PurgeCSS for all supported options.
PurgeCSS options can be passed directly to the removeUnusedCss module:
htmlnano.process(html, {
removeUnusedCss: {
tool: 'purgeCSS',
whitelist: ['.do-not-remove']
}
});The following PurgeCSS options are ignored if passed to the module:
contentcssextractors
Source:
<div class="b">
<style>
.a {
margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}
.b {
color: #ff0000;
}
</style>
</div>Optimized:
<div class="b">
<style>
.b {
color: #ff0000;
}
</style>
</div>Minifies CSS with cssnano inside <style> tags and style attributes.
See the documentation of cssnano for all supported optimizations.
By default CSS is minified with preset default, which shouldn't have any side-effects.
To use another preset or disabled some optimizations pass options to minifyCss module:
htmlnano.process(html, {
minifyCss: {
preset: ['default', {
discardComments: {
removeAll: true,
},
}]
}
});Source:
<div>
<style>
h1 {
margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
color: #ff0000;
}
</style>
</div>Minified:
<div>
<style>h1{margin:10px;color:red}</style>
</div>Minifies JS using Terser inside <script> tags.
See the documentation of Terser for all supported options.
Terser options can be passed directly to the minifyJs module:
htmlnano.process(html, {
minifyJs: {
output: { quote_style: 1 },
},
});Source:
<div>
<script>
/* comment */
const foo = function () {
};
</script>
</div>Minified:
<div>
<script>const foo=function(){};</script>
</div>Minifies JSON inside <script type="application/json"></script>.
Source:
<script type="application/json">
{
"user": "me"
}
</script>Minified:
<script type="application/json">{"user":"me"}</script>Minifies SVG inside <svg> tags using SVGO.
See the documentation of SVGO for all supported options.
SVGO options can be passed directly to the minifySvg module:
htmlnano.process(html, {
minifySvg: {
plugins: [
{ collapseGroups: false },
],
},
});Source:
<svg version="1.1" baseProfile="full" width="300" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="red" />
<circle cx="150" cy="100" r="80" fill="green" />
<text x="150" y="125" font-size="60" text-anchor="middle" fill="white">SVG</text>
</svg>`Minified:
<svg baseProfile="full" width="300" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><rect width="100%" height="100%" fill="red"/><circle cx="150" cy="100" r="80" fill="green"/><text x="150" y="125" font-size="60" text-anchor="middle" fill="#fff">SVG</text></svg>Removes redundant attributes from tags if they contain default values:
method="get"from<form>type="text"from<input>type="submit"from<button>language="javascript"andtype="text/javascript"from<script>charsetfrom<script>if it's an external scriptmedia="all"from<style>and<link>
This module is disabled by default, change option to true to enable this module.
This module could break your styles or JS if you use selectors with attributes:
form[method="get"] {
color: red;
}Source:
<form method="get">
<input type="text">
</form>Minified:
<form>
<input>
</form>Collapses boolean attributes (like disabled) to the minimized form.
If your document uses AMP, set the amphtml flag
to collapse additonal, AMP-specific boolean attributes:
"collapseBooleanAttributes": {
"amphtml": true
}This module could break your styles or JS if you use selectors with attributes:
button[disabled="disabled"] {
color: red;
}Source:
<button disabled="disabled">click</button>
<script defer=""></script>Minified:
<button disabled>click</button>
<script defer></script>Merges multiple <style> with the same media and type into one tag.
<style scoped>...</style> are skipped.
Source:
<style>h1 { color: red }</style>
<style media="print">div { color: blue }</style>
<style type="text/css" media="print">a {}</style>
<style>div { font-size: 20px }</style>Minified:
<style>h1 { color: red } div { font-size: 20px }</style>
<style media="print">div { color: blue } a {}</style>Merge multiple <script> with the same attributes (id, class, type, async, defer) into one (last) tag.
It could break your code if the tags with different attributes share the same variable scope. See the example below.
Source:
<script>const foo = 'A:1';</script>
<script class="test">foo = 'B:1';</script>
<script type="text/javascript">foo = 'A:2';</script>
<script defer>foo = 'C:1';</script>
<script>foo = 'A:3';</script>
<script defer="defer">foo = 'C:2';</script>
<script class="test" type="text/javascript">foo = 'B:2';</script>Minified:
<script>const foo = 'A:1'; foo = 'A:2'; foo = 'A:3';</script>
<script defer="defer">foo = 'C:1'; foo = 'C:2';</script>
<script class="test" type="text/javascript">foo = 'B:1'; foo = 'B:2';</script>It's also possible to pass custom modules in the minifier. As a function:
const options = {
custom: function (tree, options) {
// Some minification
return tree;
}
};Or as a list of functions:
const options = {
custom: [
function (tree, options) {
// Some minification
return tree;
},
function (tree, options) {
// Some other minification
return tree;
}
]
};options is an object with all options that were passed to the plugin.
Since the minifier is modular, it's very easy to add new modules:
-
Create a ES6-file inside
lib/modules/with a function that does some minification. For example you can checklib/modules/example.es6. -
Add the module in the modules array. The modules are applied from top to bottom. So you can choose the order for your module.
-
Create a JS-file inside
test/modules/with some unit-tests. -
Describe your module in the section "Modules".
-
Send me a pull request.
Other types of contribution (bug fixes, documentation improves, etc) are also welcome! Would like to contribute, but don't have any ideas what to do? Check out our issues.