Getting Started

This plugin was developed against

• grunt-contrib-csslint >= 0.4.0
• grunt >= 0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-contrib-csslint --save-dev
npm install grunt-csslint-plus --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-csslint');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-csslint-plus');

N.B. since grunt-csslint-plus is an extension of grunt-contrib-css, both packages must be installed for it to work!

Options

To include your own custom rules for csslinting, you must provide an array of directories containing rules in the following way:

csslint_plus: {
  rules: [
	'node_modules/grunt-csslint-plus/examples/*.js'
  ]
}

Two example rules are provided in the node module

Csslint Setup

Since this package is an extension of Grunt CSSLint, this package needs to be set up as well. You can find installation instructions here.

Or, add the following to your gruntfile.js

csslint: {
    strict: {
		options: {
			import: 2
		},
		src: ['.../**/*.css']
    }
},

Csslint Plus Task

Run this task with grunt csslint_plus command

Custom Rule Files

To define your own custom css rules, you must provide rules in the following example format:

var rule = {
  id: "example_id",
  name: "example_rule_name",
  desc: "description of rule",
  init: function(parser, reporter) {
	var rule = this;
	parser.addListener("startRule", function(evt) { ... } ), # example listeners
	parser.addListener("endRule", function(evt) { ... } ) # another example listener
  }
}

exports.Rule = rule

Probably the best way to get documentation is to look through the rules available in csslint as there are a lot more listeners.