Recently i have been working a lot with CSS. One thing I noticed is that I had to do a lot of experimenting to get things working which left the CSS properties in somewhat of a disarray. Working with my friend Adrian, who frightens me a little bit with his pedantic code manners, I wanted to do something about the CSS files. Here is my recipe.
Go get the CSSTidy. Put it somewhere you can find it. I keep all my tools under D:\Program Files\Tools and expose those on my explorer bar.
In Visual Studio, add new External tool:
Click add to add new external tool in the dialog:
Title: CssTidy
Command: [where ever you installed it]\CssTidy.exe
Arguments: $(ItemPath) --template=low --sort_properties=true --timestamp=true $(ItemFileName).css
Initial Directory: $(ItemDir)
You will notice that i had to use fixed extension in the arguments. For some reason this command line did not work:
$(ItemPath) --template=low --sort_properties=true --timestamp=true $(ItemFileName)$(ItemExt)
You can find CSSTidy arguments here. Beware, this tool might change your CSS in way that your layout does not work anymore. I am using the minimum options which is just the property sort.
Enjoy.