PostCSS Gap Properties

npm install postcss-gap-properties --save-dev

PostCSS Gap Properties lets you use the gap, column-gap, and row-gap shorthand properties in CSS, following the CSS Grid Layout specification.

.standard-grid {
    display: grid;
    gap: 20px;
}

.spaced-grid {
    display: grid;
    column-gap: 40px;
    row-gap: 20px;
}

/* becomes */

.standard-grid {
    display: grid;
    grid-gap: 20px;
    gap: 20px;
}

.spaced-grid {
    display: grid;
    grid-column-gap: 40px;
    column-gap: 40px;
    grid-row-gap: 20px;
    row-gap: 20px;
}

Usage

Add PostCSS Gap Properties to your project:

npm install postcss postcss-gap-properties --save-dev

Use it as a PostCSS plugin:

const postcss = require('postcss');
const postcssGapProperties = require('postcss-gap-properties');

postcss([
    postcssGapProperties(/* pluginOptions */)
]).process(YOUR_CSS /*, processOptions */);

Options

preserve

The preserve option determines whether the original notation is preserved. By default, it is preserved.

postcssGapProperties({ preserve: false })

.standard-grid {
    display: grid;
    gap: 20px;
}

.spaced-grid {
    display: grid;
    column-gap: 40px;
    row-gap: 20px;
}

/* becomes */

.standard-grid {
    display: grid;
    grid-gap: 20px;
}

.spaced-grid {
    display: grid;
    grid-column-gap: 40px;
    grid-row-gap: 20px;
}

Changes to PostCSS Gap Properties

6.0.0

August 3, 2024

• Updated: Support for Node v18+ (major).

Full CHANGELOG