PostCSS Preset Env,

the Babel for CSS

PostCSS Preset Env lets you convert modern CSS into something most browsers can understand, determining the polyfills you need based on your targeted browsers or runtime environments, using cssdb.

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CSS features from the spec

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Proposal

Draft

Candidate

Finished

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postcss-preset-env

Use tomorrow’s CSS today.

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features

cssdb is a comprehensive list of CSS features and their positions in the process of becoming implemented web standards.

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Stage 0: Aspirational

“This is a crazy idea.”

Stage 1: Experimental

“This idea might not be crazy.”

Stage 2: Allowable

“This idea is not crazy.”

Stage 3: Embraced

“This idea is becoming part of the web.”

Stage 4: Standardized

“This idea is part of the web.”

Rejected

“I had no idea what I was doing.”

/The Staging Process/

cssdb

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Stage level

Name & Description

Link to Specification & MDN

Sample code

Browser support & Can I Use

Link to PostCSS plugin

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features

Stage 3

Stage 2

Stage 1

Stage 0

all property
break properties
custom properties
font-variant property
gap properties
media query ranges

:any-link pseudo-class
case-insensitive attributes
:dir pseudo-class
double position gradients
:focus-visible pseudo-class
:focus-within pseudo-class
:focus-within pseudo-class
alpha hex colors
gray() function
hwb() function
image-set() function
lab() function
lch() function
logical properties and values
:matches pseudo-class
:not pseudo-class
overflow shorthand property
overflow-wrap property
place properties
rebeccapurple color
system-ui font family

:blank empty-value pseudo-class
functional color notation
custom media queries
custom selectors
nesting rules
prefers-color-scheme media query

custom environment variables

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npm install postcss-preset-env --save-dev

/INSTALL.md/

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install

npm install postcss-cli --save-dev

const postcssPresetEnv = require('postcss-preset-env');

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    postcssPresetEnv(/* pluginOptions */)
  ]
}

postcss.config.js

/INSTALL.md/

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config

...
    postcssPresetEnv({
      stage: 3
    })
...

postcss.config.js

/INSTALL.md/

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config

...
    postcssPresetEnv({
      stage: 3,
      features: {
        "nesting-rules": true // Stage 1
      }
    })
...

postcss.config.js

/INSTALL.md/

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config

...
    postcssPresetEnv({
      browsers: "last 2 versions",
      stage: 3,
      features: {
        "nesting-rules": true // Stage 1
      }
    })
...

postcss.config.js

/INSTALL.md/

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config

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isn't in postcss-preset-env

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Use tomorrow’s CSS today.