christabor / csscms

A Python tool to generate dynamic html forms for editing css files (e.g. customizeable websites), from any arbitrary css file.

CSSCMS - CSS Content Management System

A declarative approach to generating HTML GUIs for editing CSS properties.

All major css types have been tested with parsing (see the demo css for examples of test inputs). There are a few edge cases that might require manual updating, but the parser does quite well with very large css declarations, across most all types (media queries, keyframes, imports, etc...)

Installation

It's not currently added to PyPi, but you can install it easily:

python setup.py install

You may need to install using sudo, depending on how your user is setup.

Usage

Usage is quite easy. All methods return self, making the interface chainable.

from csscms.parser import InputBuilder
InputBuilder('mycssfile.css').generate().save('mycss-output.html')

Optional customization options

Options are specified when creating a new InputBuilder object.

• css_input_wrapper_class (string) - input class to apply
• unwanted_props (list) - a list of css-properties to filter out (e.g. 'color', 'font-size')
• custom_input_html (string) - optional input wrapper html
• show_empty (bool) - override and show empty declarations (False by default.)

Tests

Test coverage provided by nose. Run tests via nosetests