Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CSS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert CSS to another file type
To convert your CSS file to another format, you need Visual Studio Code or other Web software.
Convert a file to CSS
To convert other file formats to the "Web Styling Language" file type, you need software like Visual Studio Code or a similar tool.
About CSS files
A .CSS file is a Cascading Style Sheet used to define the visual presentation (layout, colors, fonts) of web pages written in HTML or XML. While indispensable for the web, raw CSS files present challenges in non-development contexts. Because they are plain text code, they cannot be easily rendered as a visual document for design reviews without a browser, and sharing raw code with non-technical clients often leads to confusion. Furthermore, unoptimized CSS files often contain unnecessary whitespace and comments that increase file size and slow down website load times. Managing large stylesheets without variables or nesting (features found in preprocessors) can also become unwieldy.
To bridge these gaps, users often need to convert .CSS files based on their specific goal. For archiving design rules or sharing code documentation with stakeholders, converting .CSS to PDF ensures the formatting is preserved in a readable, non-editable format. To improve website performance, developers convert standard CSS to Minified CSS (removing whitespace). Conversely, to leverage advanced styling features like variables and mixins, developers frequently convert legacy .CSS to preprocessor formats like SCSS (Sass) or LESS.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CSS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert CSS file to SCSS, PDF, LESS, HTML, SASS, SVG, HTM, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX or JSP, you can use Visual Studio Code or similar software from the "Web Page Styling" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO, HTM or RB files to CSS, try Visual Studio Code or another comparable tool in the "Web Page Styling" category.
The CSS Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our CSS converter.