# sanitize.css

CSS library that provides consistent, cross-browser default styling of HTML elements, developed alongside normalize.css.

STUB. This software has no release or pre-release in four years, or its project site no longer shows it, so it is not part of the register, not counted and not indexed. It will be checked again.

Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/sanitize-css/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- home: https://csstools.github.io/sanitize.css/
- repository: https://github.com/csstools/sanitize.css
- docs: https://csstools.github.io/sanitize.css/

### Identity

- status: stub
- maintainer: Jonathan Neal
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2015
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: css-framework
- hosting: not applicable
- language: css
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: not applicable
- basedOn: normalize-css

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: npm

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: CC0-1.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 13
- latestReleaseDate: 2021-09-14

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 5315
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 3413445
- contributors: 52
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 1049096
- dependentPackages: 418

### Sources

- urls: https://csstools.github.io/sanitize.css/ (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/csstools/sanitize.css (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://csstools.github.io/sanitize.css/ (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/sanitize.css (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csstools/sanitize.css/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainerType: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csstools/sanitize.css/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://registry.npmjs.org/sanitize.css/latest (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://csstools.github.io/sanitize.css/ (read 2026-10-28)
- basedOn: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csstools/sanitize.css/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csstools/sanitize.css/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csstools/sanitize.css/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csstools/sanitize.css/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://github.com/csstools/sanitize.css/blob/main/LICENSE.md (read 2026-10-28)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/csstools/sanitize.css/blob/main/LICENSE.md (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/csstools/sanitize.css/releases/tags/v13.0.0 (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/csstools/sanitize.css/releases/tags/v13.0.0 (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/csstools/sanitize.css (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/csstools/sanitize.css/contributors (read 2026-10-28)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-09-28:2026-10-04/sanitize.css (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/sanitize.css (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/sanitize.css (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

sanitize.css is a CSS library that restyles HTML elements with consistent defaults across browsers. Its main stylesheet is linked or installed with npm, and the README describes separate stylesheets for forms, assets, typography, reduced motion, system-ui and ui-monospace support, each used on its own or alongside the main file. It wraps its styles in zero-specificity `:where()` selectors and documents each rule as either a normalization or an opinion. The library is built upon normalize.css, and the README says the two are maintained in sync.

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