Options shared by the:
configFile
CLI flag: --config
Path to a JSON, YAML, or JS file that contains your configuration object.
Use this option if you don’t want stylelint to search for a configuration file.
The path should be either absolute or relative to the directory that your process is running from (process.cwd()
).
configBasedir
CLI flag: --config-basedir
Absolute path to the directory that relative paths defining “extends” and “plugins” are relative to. Only necessary if these values are relative paths.
fix
CLI flag: --fix
Automatically fix, where possible, violations reported by rules.
For CSS with standard syntax, stylelint uses postcss-safe-parser to fix syntax errors.
If a source contains a:
/* stylelint-disable indentation */
, any violations reported by the scoped rules will not be automatically fixed anywhere in the source/* stylelint-disable */
, the entirety of source will not be automatically fixedThis limitation in being tracked in issue #2643.
formatter
CLI flags: --formatter, -f
| --custom-formatter
Specify the formatter to format your results.
Options are:
compact
json
(default for Node API)string
(default for CLI)tap
unix
verbose
The formatter
Node.js API option can also accept a function, whereas the --custom-formatter
CLI flag accepts a path to a JS file exporting one. The function in both cases must fit the signature described in the Developer Guide.
cache
CLI flag: --cache
Store the results of processed files so that stylelint only operates on the changed ones. By default, the cache is stored in ./.stylelintcache
in process.cwd()
.
Enabling this option can dramatically improve stylelint’s speed because only changed files are linted.
If you run stylelint with cache
and then run stylelint without cache
, stylelint deletes the .stylelintcache
because we have to assume that that second command invalidated .stylelintcache
.
cacheLocation
CLI flag: --cache-location
Path to a file or directory for the cache location.
If a directory is specified, stylelint creates a cache file inside the specified folder. The name of the file is based on the hash of process.cwd()
(e.g. .cache_hashOfCWD
) so that stylelint can reuse a single location for a variety of caches from different projects.
If the directory of cacheLocation
does not exist, make sure you add a trailing /
on *nix systems or \
on Windows. Otherwise, stylelint assumes the path to be a file.
maxWarnings
CLI flags: --max-warnings, --mw
Set a limit to the number of warnings accepted.
It is useful when setting defaultSeverity
to "warning"
and expecting the process to fail on warnings (e.g. CI build).
If the number of warnings exceeds this value, the:
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maxWarningsExceeded
property to the returned datasyntax
CLI flags: --syntax, -s
Specify a syntax. Options:
css
css-in-js
html
less
markdown
sass
scss
sugarss
If you do not specify a syntax, stylelint will automatically infer the syntaxes.
Only use this option if you want to force a specific syntax.
customSyntax
CLI flag: --custom-syntax
Specify a custom syntax to use on your code. Use this option if you want to force a specific syntax that’s not already built into stylelint.
This option should be a string that resolves to a JS module that exports a PostCSS-compatible syntax. The string can be a module name (like my-module
) or a path to a JS file (like path/to/my-module.js
).
Using the Node.js API, the customSyntax
option can also accept a Syntax object. Stylelint treats the parse
property as a required value.
Note that stylelint can provide no guarantee that core rules work with syntaxes other than the defaults listed for the syntax
option above.
disableDefaultIgnores
CLI flags: --disable-default-ignores, --di
Disable the default ignores. stylelint will not automatically ignore the contents of node_modules
.
ignorePath
CLI flags: --ignore-path, -i
A path to a file containing patterns describing files to ignore. The path can be absolute or relative to process.cwd()
. By default, stylelint looks for .stylelintignore
in process.cwd()
.
ignoreDisables
CLI flags: --ignore-disables, --id
Ignore styleline-disable
(e.g. /* stylelint-disable block-no-empty */
) comments.
You can use this option to see what your linting results would be like without those exceptions.
reportNeedlessDisables
CLI flags: --report-needless-disables, --rd
Produce a report to clean up your codebase, keeping only the stylelint-disable
comments that serve a purpose.
If needless disables are found, the:
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reportInvalidScopeDisables
CLI flags: --report-invalid-scope-disables, --risd
Produce a report of the stylelint-disable
comments that used for rules that don’t exist within the configuration object.
If invalid scope disables are found, the:
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reportDescriptionlessDisables
CLI flags: --report-descriptionless-disables, --rdd
Produce a report of the stylelint-disable
comments without a description.
For example, when the configuration { block-no-empty: true }
is given, the following patterns are reported:
/* stylelint-disable */
a {}
/* stylelint-disable-next-line block-no-empty */
a {}
But, the following patterns (stylelint-disable -- <description>
) are not reported:
/* stylelint-disable -- This violation is ignorable. */
a {}
/* stylelint-disable-next-line block-no-empty -- This violation is ignorable. */
a {}
If descriptionless disables are found, the:
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codeFilename
CLI flag: --stdin-filename
A filename to assign the input.
If using code
or stdin
to pass a source string directly, you can use codeFilename
to associate that code with a particular filename.