Definition Generator

These scripts will generate a definition and typedef file from all the CSS properties currently available. It does so by scraping the MDN website for the CSS properties and their descriptions.

Note that this is not a perfect solution, as the MDN website is not always up to date with the latest CSS properties. However, it is a good starting point. The properties we are scraping are available from:

https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/all-properties.en.json

Usage

To generate the definition and typedef files, simply run the following command:

$ php definitions.php

This will create the definitions.json file AND the ./cache directories. The cache dir is nice if you want to run the same script multiple times, as it will not have to re-scrape the MDN website.

Once you have the definition.json file generated. You can run the following command to generate the typedef file:

$ php typedefs.php > typedefs.raw.txt
$ php cleanup.php typedefs.raw.txt > typedefs.json 

This will generate the typedefs.json file, which you can then use in your project.

If you like, you can use missing.php to check if there are any missing properties in the definitions.json file.