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Proprietary Code, Make a pages code inaccessible

Is there any way to hide or otherwise make inaccessible a web pages proprietary CSS code? I know about minification but a minified css file can easily be unpacked.

Thank you for your help, Marc

Solution

  • Aside from minification and perhaps base64 encoding, there is nothing you can do to mask your CSS text. And those are easily reversible.

    There is no way to make it unreadable, as the browser has to be able to read it in order to display it, therefore the user can read it if they want to.

    I think you are tackling the wrong problem. Your problem shouldn't be "how do I prevent users from seeing my proprietary css code" it should be "Why does my CSS code have anything proprietary in it."

    It really shouldn't, and if it does you should fix that.