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How can I remove comments on-fly from my static CSS files?

I'm using facelets, and I have a number of CSS files in webapp/styles/blueprint/*.css. They contain comments which I don't want to become visible to end-users. How can I remove them on-fly?

Solution

  • Use YUI compressor. It will not only remove comments, but also minify the CSS (and JS) files.

    Reader reader = null;
Writer writer = null;

try {
    reader = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(cssFile), "UTF-8");
    writer = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(minFile), "UTF-8");
    new CssCompressor(reader).compress(writer, -1); // That's it.
} finally {
    close(writer);
    close(reader);
}

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