Reading and Parsing a CSS file in ASP.Net

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page

{

string aa = null;

static string[] parts;

private List<string> styleSheets;

private SortedList<string, StyleClass> scc;

public SortedList<string, StyleClass> Styles

{

get { return this.scc; }

set { this.scc = value; }

}

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

if (!Page.IsPostBack)

{

CssParser();

GetStyleSheet(Server.MapPath("StyleSheet.css"));

}

}

//To parse Css file.

public void CssParser()

{

this.styleSheets = new List<string>();

this.scc = new SortedList<string, StyleClass>();

}

//Get Style sheet to parse

public void GetStyleSheet(string path)

{

this.styleSheets.Add(path);

ParseStyleSheet(path);

}

public string GetStyleSheet(int index)

{

return this.styleSheets[index];

}

//Parsing style sheet

private void ParseStyleSheet(string path)

{

string content = CleanUp(File.ReadAllText(path));

parts = content.Split('}');

for (int i = 0; i < parts.Length - 1; i++)

{

string[] parts1 = parts[i].Split('{');

string str = parts1[0].ToString().Remove(0, 1);

aa = aa + str + ",";

}

int len = aa.LastIndexOf(',');

string ss = aa.Remove(len);

string ss1 = aa.Remove(len - 1);

string[] parts2 = ss.Split(',');

//Binding all class of a css file to a drop down list

DDLCssClass.DataSource = parts2;

DDLCssClass.DataBind();

lstClassProperty.Items.Clear();

//Bind all property of a selected css class

GetCssClassProperty(parts, DDLCssClass.SelectedValue);

}

private string CleanUp(string s)

{

string temp = s;

string reg = "(/\\*(.|[\r\n])*?\\*/)|(//.*)";

Regex r = new Regex(reg);

temp = r.Replace(temp, "");

temp = temp.Replace("\r", "").Replace("\n", "");

return temp;

}

public class StyleClass

{

private string _name = string.Empty;

public string Name

{

get { return _name; }

set { _name = value; }

}

private SortedList<string, string> _attributes = new SortedList<string, string>();

public SortedList<string, string> Attributes

{

get { return _attributes; }

set { _attributes = value; }

}

}

protected void DDLCssClass_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

lstClassProperty.Items.Clear();

GetCssClassProperty(parts, DDLCssClass.SelectedValue);

}

//To Bind all property of a css class

private void GetCssClassProperty(string[] classArray, string className)

{

for (int i = 0; i < classArray.Length - 1; i++)

{

string[] parts1 = classArray[i].Split('{');

if ("." + className == parts1[0].ToString())

{

string[] parts3 = parts1[1].Split(';');

for (int j = 0; j < parts3.Length - 1; j++)

{

lstClassProperty.Items.Add(parts3[j].ToString());

}

}

}

}

}

When you run the application then all class of a giving style sheet file will bind in a drop down list like...

Image 1.

When you change your css class then property of that selected class will show in list box...



Image 2.