Validate CSS via W3C's service

This was created to validate CSS inside of the json2css test suite.

Install the module with: npm install css-validator

var validateCss = require('css-validator');
validateCss({text: 'a { color: blue; }'}, function (err, data) {
  assert.strictEqual(data.validity, true);
  assert.deepEqual(data.errors, []);
  assert.deepEqual(data.warnings, []);
});

css-validator returns a single function as its module.exports

Validate CSS against W3C's Jigsaw validation service

• options String|Object - If options is a String, it will be treated as options.text
  • w3cUrl String - URL to validate against. Default is http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator
  • The following options from the validator itself
    • Reference: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/manual.html#api
  • uri null|String - URL of document to validate. CSS and HTML documents are allowed
  • text null|String - CSS to validate
  • usermedium String - Medium where the CSS will be used (e.g. screen, print, braille). Default is all.
  • profile String - CSS profile to use for validation. Default is css3.
    • Possible values are css1, css2, css21, css3, svg, svgbasic, svgtiny, mobile, atsc-tv, tv, none
  • lang String - Language to use in response. Default is en
    • Possible values are en, fr, it, ko, ja, es, zh-cn, nl, de, it, pl
  • warning Number|String - Warning level to set. Default is 2
    • If set to no, no warnings will be returned
    • If set to 0, less warnings will be returned
    • If set to 1 or 2, more warnings will be returned
• cb null|Function - Error first callback with function (err, data) {} signature
  • err null|Error - If there was a connetivity error, this will be it
  • data null|Object - Container for response from jigsaw
    • validity Boolean - If there were no errors, this will be true. Otherwise, it is false.
    • errors Object[] - Array of errors
      • These are dynamically parsed and not guaranteed to exist. The service only guarantees line, level, and message.
        • Reference: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/api.html#soap12message
      • line Number - Line where error occurred
      • errortype String
      • context String
      • errorsubtype String
      • skippedstring String - Content where error occurred
      • message String - Human readable information about the error and why it occurred
    • warnings Object[] - Array of warnings
      • line Number - Line where error occurred
      • level Number - Intensity of the warning. See options.warning for more info
      • message String - Human readable information about the warning and why it occurred

If cb is not provided, a DuplexStream will be returned to you.

If you have not provided options.uri or options.text, you can .write + .end OR .pipe to the stream CSS to validate.

Additionally, you can use .read and .pipe to get the data returned by cb.

The stream will emit the following events:

• error Error - Error occurring during connection or parsing of response
• data Object - Same as data sent to cb. Emitted once.
• end - Emitted when we have finished parsing the input and outputting events
• validity Boolean - Event for data.validity with data.validity as its data
• validation-error Object - Event for a new data.errors object with the error as its argument
• validation-warning Object - Event for a new data.warnings object with the warning as its argument

var cssValidate = require('css-validate');
var css = [
  "body {",
  "  background: url(ab'cd');",
  "  -moz-box-sizing: content-box;",
  "}",
].join('\n');

cssValidate(css, function (err, data) {
  console.log(data);
  /*
  { validity: false,
  errors:
   [ { line: '2',
       errortype: 'parse-error',
       context: ' body ',
       errorsubtype: '\n                                exp\n                            ',
       skippedstring: '\n                                url(ab \'cd\')\n                            ',
       message: '\n        \n                                Value Error :  background (nullcolors.html#propdef-background)\n        \n                                url(ab \'cd\') is not a background-color value : \n                            ',
       error: '\n                        ' } ],
  warnings:
   [ { line: '3',
       level: '0',
       message: 'Property -moz-box-sizing is an unknown vendor extension',
       warning: '\n                        ' } ] }
  */
});

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As of Nov 27 2013, Todd Wolfson has released this repository and its contents to the public domain.

It has been released under the UNLICENSE.