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Minification

Minification removes whitespace, comments and other characters that are not needed to run code, making files smaller and faster to send.

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In more detail

It is the opposite of formatting or beautifying, which add indentation to make code readable. Minified code is not secure or secret, only compact; use formatters for HTML, JavaScript and SQL when you need to read someone else's minified file.

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HTML Formatter

Beautify and pretty-print raw, minified HTML with proper indentation.

JavaScript Beautifier

Beautify and pretty-print raw, minified JavaScript with proper indentation.

SQL Formatter

Beautify and pretty-print raw, minified SQL queries with proper indentation and keyword casing.

CSS Formatter

Beautify and pretty-print raw, minified CSS with proper indentation.

JSON Minifier & Compressor

Compress your JSON data to the smallest size for optimal storage and transport.

See also

  • Glossary JSON
    JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight text format for structured data, built from objects, arrays, strings, numbers, true.
  • Glossary Regular expression
    A regular expression (regex) is a pattern written in a compact syntax that describes a set of strings, used to search.
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