PostCSS Normalize Display Values

PostCSS Normalize Display Values lets you specify definition of outer and inner displays types for an element.

.element {
  display: inline flow-root;
}

/* becomes */

.element {
  display: inline-block;
  display: inline flow-root;
}

See prior work by cssnano here postcss-normalize-display-values To ensure long term maintenance and to provide the needed features this plugin was recreated based on cssnano's work.

Usage

Add PostCSS Normalize Display Values to your project:

npm install postcss @csstools/postcss-normalize-display-values --save-dev

Use it as a PostCSS plugin:

const postcss = require('postcss');
const postcssNormalizeDisplayValues = require('@csstools/postcss-normalize-display-values');

postcss([
  postcssNormalizeDisplayValues(/* pluginOptions */)
]).process(YOUR_CSS /*, processOptions */);

PostCSS Normalize Display Values runs in all Node environments, with special instructions for:

Node	PostCSS CLI	Webpack	Create React App	Gulp	Grunt

Options

preserve

The preserve option determines whether the original source is preserved. By default, it is preserved.

postcssNormalizeDisplayValues({ preserve: false })

.element {
  display: inline flow-root;
}

/* becomes */

.element {
  display: inline-block; 
}