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bin+lib css-inline

High-performance library for inlining CSS into HTML 'style' attributes

by Dmitry Dygalo and 10 contributors

35 releases (12 breaking)

0.14.0 Apr 1, 2024
0.13.0 Jan 19, 2024
0.12.0 Dec 28, 2023
0.11.0 Sep 26, 2023
0.4.0 Jul 13, 2020

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css-inline

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css_inline is a high-performance library for inlining CSS into HTML 'style' attributes.

This library is designed for scenarios such as preparing HTML emails or embedding HTML into third-party web pages.

For instance, the crate transforms HTML like this:

<html>
  <head>
    <style>h1 { color:blue; }</style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Big Text</h1>
  </body>
</html>

into:

<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    <h1 style="color:blue;">Big Text</h1>
  </body>
</html>
  • Uses reliable components from Mozilla's Servo project
  • Inlines CSS from style and link tags
  • Removes style and link tags
  • Resolves external stylesheets (including local files)
  • Optionally caches external stylesheets
  • Works on Linux, Windows, and macOS
  • Supports HTML5 & CSS3
  • Bindings for Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C, and a WebAssembly module to run in browsers.
  • Command Line Interface

Playground

If you'd like to try css-inline, you can check the WebAssembly-powered playground to see the results instantly.

Installation

To include it in your project, add the following line to the dependencies section in your project's Cargo.toml file:

[dependencies]
css-inline = "0.14"

The Minimum Supported Rust Version is 1.65.

Usage

const HTML: &str = r#"<html>
<head>
    <style>h1 { color:blue; }</style>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Big Text</h1>
</body>
</html>"#;

fn main() -> css_inline::Result<()> {
    let inlined = css_inline::inline(HTML)?;
    // Do something with inlined HTML, e.g. send an email
    Ok(())
}

Note that css-inline automatically adds missing html and body tags, so the output is a valid HTML document.

Alternatively, you can inline CSS into an HTML fragment, preserving the original structure:

const FRAGMENT: &str = r#"<main>
<h1>Hello</h1>
<section>
<p>who am i</p>
</section>
</main>"#;

const CSS: &str = r#"
p {
    color: red;
}

h1 {
    color: blue;
}
"#;

fn main() -> css_inline::Result<()> {
    let inlined = css_inline::inline_fragment(FRAGMENT, CSS)?;
    Ok(())
}

Configuration

css-inline can be configured by using CSSInliner::options() that implements the Builder pattern:

const HTML: &str = "...";

fn main() -> css_inline::Result<()> {
    let inliner = css_inline::CSSInliner::options()
        .load_remote_stylesheets(false)
        .build();
    let inlined = inliner.inline(HTML)?;
    // Do something with inlined HTML, e.g. send an email
    Ok(())
}
  • inline_style_tags. Specifies whether to inline CSS from "style" tags. Default: true
  • keep_style_tags. Specifies whether to keep "style" tags after inlining. Default: false
  • keep_link_tags. Specifies whether to keep "link" tags after inlining. Default: false
  • base_url. The base URL used to resolve relative URLs. If you'd like to load stylesheets from your filesystem, use the file:// scheme. Default: None
  • load_remote_stylesheets. Specifies whether remote stylesheets should be loaded. Default: true
  • cache. Specifies cache for external stylesheets. Default: None
  • extra_css. Extra CSS to be inlined. Default: None
  • preallocate_node_capacity. Advanced. Preallocates capacity for HTML nodes during parsing. This can improve performance when you have an estimate of the number of nodes in your HTML document. Default: 32

You can also skip CSS inlining for an HTML tag by adding the data-css-inline="ignore" attribute to it:

<head>
  <style>h1 { color:blue; }</style>
</head>
<body>
  <!-- The tag below won't receive additional styles -->
  <h1 data-css-inline="ignore">Big Text</h1>
</body>

The data-css-inline="ignore" attribute also allows you to skip link and style tags:

<head>
  <!-- Styles below are ignored -->
  <style data-css-inline="ignore">h1 { color:blue; }</style>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Big Text</h1>
</body>

Alternatively, you may keep style from being removed by using the data-css-inline="keep" attribute. This is useful if you want to keep @media queries for responsive emails in separate style tags:

<head>
  <!-- Styles below are not removed -->
  <style data-css-inline="keep">h1 { color:blue; }</style>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Big Text</h1>
</body>

Such tags will be kept in the resulting HTML even if the keep_style_tags option is set to false.

If you'd like to load stylesheets from your filesystem, use the file:// scheme:

const HTML: &str = "...";

fn main() -> css_inline::Result<()> {
    let base_url = css_inline::Url::parse("file://styles/email/").expect("Invalid URL");
    let inliner = css_inline::CSSInliner::options()
        .base_url(Some(base_url))
        .build();
    let inlined = inliner.inline(HTML);
    // Do something with inlined HTML, e.g. send an email
    Ok(())
}

For resolving remote stylesheets it is possible to implement a custom resolver:

#[derive(Debug, Default)]
pub struct CustomStylesheetResolver;

impl css_inline::StylesheetResolver for CustomStylesheetResolver {
    fn retrieve(&self, location: &str) -> css_inline::Result<String> {
        Err(self.unsupported("External stylesheets are not supported"))
    }
}

fn main() -> css_inline::Result<()> {
    let inliner = css_inline::CSSInliner::options()
        .resolver(std::sync::Arc::new(CustomStylesheetResolver))
        .build();
    Ok(())
}

You can also cache external stylesheets to avoid excessive network requests:

use std::num::NonZeroUsize;

#[cfg(feature = "stylesheet-cache")]
fn main() -> css_inline::Result<()> {
    let inliner = css_inline::CSSInliner::options()
        .cache(
            // This is an LRU cache
            css_inline::StylesheetCache::new(
                NonZeroUsize::new(5).expect("Invalid cache size")
            )
        )
        .build();
    Ok(())
}

// This block is here for testing purposes
#[cfg(not(feature = "stylesheet-cache"))]
fn main() -> css_inline::Result<()> {
    Ok(())
}

Caching is disabled by default.

Performance

css-inline typically inlines HTML emails within hundreds of microseconds, though results may vary with input complexity.

Benchmarks for css-inline==0.14.0:

  • Basic: 6.72 µs, 230 bytes
  • Realistic-1: 132.59 µs, 8.58 KB
  • Realistic-2: 86.01 µs, 4.3 KB
  • GitHub page: 228.97 ms, 1.81 MB

These benchmarks, conducted using rustc 1.77.1, can be found in css-inline/benches/inliner.rs.

Command Line Interface

Installation

Install with cargo:

cargo install css-inline

Usage

The following command inlines CSS in multiple documents in parallel. Resulting files will be saved as inlined.email1.html and inlined.email2.html:

css-inline email1.html email2.html

For full details of the options available, you can use the --help flag:

css-inline --help

Further reading

If you're interested in learning how this library was created and how it works internally, check out these articles:

Support

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License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Dependencies

~5–20MB
~275K SLoC