postcss-place

Place

Place lets you use place-* properties as shorthands for align-* and justify-* per the CSS Box Alignment Module Level 3.

/* before */

.example {
	place-self: center;
	place-content: space-between center;
}

/* after */

.example {
	align-self: center;
	justify-self: center;
	align-content: space-between;
	justify-content: center;
}

Usage

Add Place to your build tool:

npm install jonathantneal/postcss-place --save-dev

Node

require('postcss-place').process(YOUR_CSS, { /* options */ });

PostCSS

Add PostCSS to your build tool:

npm install postcss --save-dev

Load Place as a PostCSS plugin:

postcss([
	require('postcss-place')({ /* options */ })
]).process(YOUR_CSS, /* options */);

Gulp

Add Gulp PostCSS to your build tool:

npm install gulp-postcss --save-dev

Enable Place within your Gulpfile:

var postcss = require('gulp-postcss');

gulp.task('css', function () {
	return gulp.src('./src/*.css').pipe(
		postcss([
			require('postcss-place')({ /* options */ })
		])
	).pipe(
		gulp.dest('.')
	);
});

Grunt

Add Grunt PostCSS to your build tool:

npm install grunt-postcss --save-dev

Enable Place within your Gruntfile:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-postcss');

grunt.initConfig({
	postcss: {
		options: {
			use: [
				require('postcss-place')({ /* options */ })
			]
		},
		dist: {
			src: '*.css'
		}
	}
});

Options

prefix

Type: String
Default: null

Specifies a prefix to be surrounded by dashes before the declaration (e.g. prefix: 'x' changes the detected property to -x-place-content).