Minimizing CSS with keyboard shortcuts

Hi there,

To minify a selection? Nope, unless done via custom plugin.

You can minify whole file though (or multiple files / folder) using External Tools (on demand) or File Watcher (sort of automatic External Tools).

• https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/configuring-third-party-tools.html -- once created you can then assign a shortcut to such entry so it's easier to invoke it (for currently edited file for example)
• https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/using-file-watchers.html

Thanks for the answer. It is a pity that there is no built-in utility for CSS compression. It would be very useful

>It is a pity that there is no built-in utility for CSS compression. It would be very useful

You can use ANY minifier you want and not be limited to some particular built-in one. Just setup your workflow pipeline/tools because ideally you want to have some toolchain where you click "build" and it will run all needed commands to compile/minify/combine/etc whole JS/CSS/Images for you.

I'm using node-sass for writing my CSS, it minifies it for me when stranspilling SCSS into CSS (I do not need any separate tools for that step; although separate minifier may provide more compact result).

I do it the same way, but it's not always fast. I thought there was a simpler solution. A solution that does not require initialization and do settings