What is juice?
The 'juice' npm package is primarily used for inlining CSS into HTML. This is particularly useful for sending HTML emails where inline styles are often required for consistent rendering across different email clients.
What are juice's main functionalities?
Inline CSS into HTML
This feature allows you to take an HTML string with embedded CSS and inline the CSS styles directly into the HTML elements. This is useful for ensuring that styles are applied correctly in environments that do not support embedded or external stylesheets, such as many email clients.
const juice = require('juice');
const html = '<html><head><style>h1 { color: red; }</style></head><body><h1>Hello, world!</h1></body></html>';
const inlinedHtml = juice(html);
console.log(inlinedHtml);
Inline CSS from external stylesheets
This feature allows you to inline CSS from external stylesheets referenced in the HTML. The 'url' option is used to resolve the paths of the external stylesheets.
const juice = require('juice');
const html = '<html><head><link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css"></head><body><h1>Hello, world!</h1></body></html>';
const inlinedHtml = juice(html, { url: 'http://example.com' });
console.log(inlinedHtml);
Custom CSS inlining options
Juice provides various options to customize the inlining process. For example, you can choose whether to apply style tags, remove style tags after inlining, and more.
const juice = require('juice');
const html = '<html><head><style>h1 { color: red; }</style></head><body><h1>Hello, world!</h1></body></html>';
const options = { applyStyleTags: true, removeStyleTags: false };
const inlinedHtml = juice(html, options);
console.log(inlinedHtml);
Other packages similar to juice
inline-css
The 'inline-css' package is another tool for inlining CSS into HTML. It offers similar functionality to 'juice' but with a simpler API. It is useful for basic inlining tasks but may lack some of the advanced options available in 'juice'.
premailer
The 'premailer' package is a more comprehensive tool that not only inlines CSS but also rewrites URLs, adds missing HTML attributes, and more. It is a good alternative to 'juice' for more complex email preparation tasks.
email-comb
The 'email-comb' package is designed to clean and optimize HTML emails by inlining CSS and removing unused styles. It is similar to 'juice' but focuses more on optimization and cleaning up the HTML.
Juice
Given HTML and CSS, juice will inline your properties into the style
attribute.
How to use
var juice = require('juice');
juice('<p>Test</p>', 'p { color: red; }')
Directly on a jsdom instance
var juice = require('juice');
juice.juiceDom(jsDomInstance, css);
Note: Be sure to use the same jsdom version that juice uses.
Also be sure to clean up after you're done. You may have to
call jsDomInstance.parentWindow.close()
to free up memory.
What is this useful for ?
- HTML emails. For a comprehensive list of supported selectors see
here
- Embedding HTML in 3rd-party websites.
Projects using juice
Credits
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2011 Guillermo Rauch <guillermo@learnboost.com>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
3rd-party
- Uses the excellent JSDom for the underlying DOM
representation.
- Uses cssom to parse out CSS selectors and
Slick to tokenize them.
- Icon by UnheardSounds