CSS Beautifier

Beautify and format CSS code for better readability and structure.

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body{background:#fff;color:#333}h1,h2{margin:0;padding:10px}.nav{display:flex}

body{background:#fff;color:#333}h1,h2{margin:0;padding:10px}.nav{display:flex}

Beautified CSS

Turn Compressed CSS into Clean, Readable Stylesheets

Minified CSS is great for production but impossible to debug or review. This beautifier instantly restores proper indentation, spacing, and structure so you can read, edit, and understand any stylesheet — whether it came from a build tool, a third-party library, or a legacy codebase.

Instant CSS Formatting

Why Use This Tool?

One-Click Formatting

Instantly expand compressed stylesheets with consistent indentation and line breaks without any manual editing.

Debug with Ease

Readable CSS makes it far easier to spot selector conflicts, missing semicolons, and incorrect property values.

Understand Third-Party CSS

Beautify framework or library stylesheets to understand what styles are being applied before overriding them.

100% Private

All formatting happens locally in your browser. Your stylesheets are never uploaded or stored on any server.

How this CSS Beautifier works

This styling utility reformats minified or messy CSS code into a clean, readable stylesheet. It adds proper line breaks, indentation, and spacing around selectors and properties. The beautifier helps developers understand third-party CSS files, debug inheritance issues, or strictly enforce a coding style guide. It runs locally in the browser, supporting standard CSS syntax and preventing layout issues caused by syntactical typos.

For the reverse operation, our CSS Minifier strips whitespace for production-ready stylesheets. Working with SCSS? Convert it first with our SCSS to CSS Converter.

How to use this CSS Beautifier

Paste Your CSS

Paste minified or messy CSS code into the input panel.

Beautify

Click the beautify button to auto-format indentation, spacing, and brackets.

Copy or Download

Copy the cleaned stylesheet to your clipboard or download it as a .css file.

Example Usage

Expand a minified body and h1 rule set into a readable multi-line stylesheet.

Input

body{margin:0;padding:0;font-family:sans-serif;}h1{color:#333;font-size:2rem;}

Output

body { margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: sans-serif; } h1 { color: #333; font-size: 2rem; }

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a CSS beautifier do?

A CSS beautifier reformats CSS code by adding consistent indentation, line breaks, and spacing around selectors and properties. It makes minified or compressed stylesheets human-readable again.

Will beautifying CSS change how styles are applied?

No. Beautification only changes whitespace. Selectors, properties, and values remain identical, so the rendered output in a browser is unchanged.

Why is my CSS not beautifying correctly?

Common causes are unclosed braces, missing semicolons, or invalid property values. Fix the syntax errors first and then run the beautifier again.

Can I beautify CSS that includes vendor prefixes?

Yes. Standard vendor prefixes like -webkit-, -moz-, and -ms- are treated as valid CSS properties and are formatted correctly alongside standard properties.

Is this CSS beautifier secure?

Yes. All processing runs entirely in your browser. Your stylesheet is never sent to a server, so your code stays private.

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