The node’s parent node.

root.nodes[0].parent === root

Information to generate byte-to-byte equal node string as it was in the origin input.

Every parser saves its own properties, but the default CSS parser uses:

• before: the space symbols before the node. It also stores * and _ symbols before the declaration (IE hack).
• after: the space symbols after the last child of the node to the end of the node.
• between: the symbols between the property and value for declarations, selector and { for rules, or last parameter and { for at-rules.
• semicolon: contains true if the last child has an (optional) semicolon.
• afterName: the space between the at-rule name and its parameters.
• left: the space symbols between /* and the comment’s text.
• right: the space symbols between the comment’s text and */.
• important: the content of the important statement, if it is not just !important.

PostCSS cleans selectors, declaration values and at-rule parameters from comments and extra spaces, but it stores origin content in raws properties. As such, if you don’t change a declaration’s value, PostCSS will use the raw value with comments.

const root = postcss.parse('a {\n  color:black\n}')
root.first.first.raws //=> { before: '\n  ', between: ':' }

The input source of the node.

The property is used in source map generation.

If you create a node manually (e.g., with postcss.decl()), that node will not have a source property and will be absent from the source map. For this reason, the plugin developer should consider cloning nodes to create new ones (in which case the new node’s source will reference the original, cloned node) or setting the source property manually.

decl.source.input.from //=> '/home/ai/a.sass'
decl.source.start      //=> { line: 10, column: 2 }
decl.source.end        //=> { line: 10, column: 12 }

// Bad
const prefixed = postcss.decl({
  prop: '-moz-' + decl.prop,
  value: decl.value
})

// Good
const prefixed = decl.clone({ prop: '-moz-' + decl.prop })

if (atrule.name === 'add-link') {
  const rule = postcss.rule({ selector: 'a', source: atrule.source })
  atrule.parent.insertBefore(atrule, rule)
}

tring representing the node’s type. Possible values are root, atrule, rule, decl, or comment.

new Declaration({ prop: 'color', value: 'black' }).type //=> 'decl'

Insert new node after current node to current node’s parent.

Just alias for node.parent.insertAfter(node, add).

decl.after('color: black')

Insert new node before current node to current node’s parent.

Just alias for node.parent.insertBefore(node, add).

decl.before('content: ""')

Clear the code style properties for the node and its children.

node.raws.before  //=> ' '
node.cleanRaws()
node.raws.before  //=> undefined

Returns an exact clone of the node.

The resulting cloned node and its (cloned) children will retain code style properties.

decl.raws.before    //=> "\n  "
const cloned = decl.clone({ prop: '-moz-' + decl.prop })
cloned.raws.before  //=> "\n  "
cloned.toString()   //=> -moz-transform: scale(0)

Shortcut to clone the node and insert the resulting cloned node after the current node.

Shortcut to clone the node and insert the resulting cloned node before the current node.

decl.cloneBefore({ prop: '-moz-' + decl.prop })

Returns a CssSyntaxError instance containing the original position of the node in the source, showing line and column numbers and also a small excerpt to facilitate debugging.

If present, an input source map will be used to get the original position of the source, even from a previous compilation step (e.g., from Sass compilation).

This method produces very useful error messages.

if (!variables[name]) {
  throw decl.error(`Unknown variable ${name}`, { word: name })
  // CssSyntaxError: postcss-vars:a.sass:4:3: Unknown variable $black
  //   color: $black
  // a
  //          ^
  //   background: white
}

Returns the next child of the node’s parent. Returns undefined if the current node is the last child.

if (comment.text === 'delete next') {
  const next = comment.next()
  if (next) {
    next.remove()
  }
}

Convert string index to line/column.

Returns the previous child of the node’s parent. Returns undefined if the current node is the first child.

const annotation = decl.prev()
if (annotation.type === 'comment') {
  readAnnotation(annotation.text)
}

Returns a Node#raws value. If the node is missing the code style property (because the node was manually built or cloned), PostCSS will try to autodetect the code style property by looking at other nodes in the tree.

const root = postcss.parse('a { background: white }')
root.nodes[0].append({ prop: 'color', value: 'black' })
root.nodes[0].nodes[1].raws.before   //=> undefined
root.nodes[0].nodes[1].raw('before') //=> ' '

Removes the node from its parent and cleans the parent properties from the node and its children.

if (decl.prop.match(/^-webkit-/)) {
  decl.remove()
}

Inserts node(s) before the current node and removes the current node.

AtRule: {
  mixin: atrule => {
    atrule.replaceWith(mixinRules[atrule.params])
  }
}

Finds the Root instance of the node’s tree.

root.nodes[0].nodes[0].root() === root

Fix circular links on JSON.stringify().

Returns a CSS string representing the node.

new Rule({ selector: 'a' }).toString() //=> "a {}"

This method is provided as a convenience wrapper for Result#warn.

  Declaration: {
    bad: (decl, { result }) => {
      decl.warn(result, 'Deprecated property bad')
    }
  }