# grunt-inline[](http://travis-ci.org/miniflycn/grunt-inline)
Brings externally referenced resources, such as js, css and images, into
a single file.
For exmample:
```html
```
is replaced with
```html
```
JavaScript references are brought inline, and images in the html
and css blocks are converted to base-64 data: urls.
By default, only urls marked with `__inline` are converted, however this
behavior can be overrided via the `tag:` option.
## Getting Started
This plugin requires Grunt `~0.4.1`
If you haven't used [Grunt](http://gruntjs.com/) before, be sure to check out the [Getting Started](http://gruntjs.com/getting-started) guide, as it explains how to create a [Gruntfile](http://gruntjs.com/sample-gruntfile) as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
```bash
npm install grunt-inline --save-dev
```
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
```bash
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-inline');
```
## The "grunt-inline" task
### Overview
In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named `inline` to the data object passed into `grunt.initConfig()`.
```javascript
grunt.initConfig({
inline: {
dist: {
src: 'src/index.html',
dest: 'dist/index.html'
}
}
});
```
### Options
#### dest
If dest is assigned, the the source file will be copied to the destination path. eg:
`src/index.html` will be processed and then copied to `dist/index.html`
```javascript
grunt.initConfig({
inline: {
dist: {
src: 'src/index.html',
dest: 'dist/index.html'
}
}
});
```
### cssmin
If cssmin is assigned true, `.css` will be minified before inlined.
```javascript
grunt.initConfig({
inline: {
dist: {
options:{
cssmin: true
},
src: 'src/index.html',
dest: 'dist/index.html'
}
}
});
```
### tag (defaults to ```__inline```)
Only URLs that contain the value for ```tag``` will be inlined.
Specify ```tag: ''``` to include all urls.
```javascript
grunt.initConfig({
inline: {
dist: {
options:{
tag: ''
},
src: 'src/index.html',
dest: 'dist/index.html']
}
}
});
```
### inlineTagAttributes
Ability to add attributes string to inline tag.
```javascript
grunt.initConfig({
inline: {
dist: {
options:{
inlineTagAttributes: {
js: 'data-inlined="true"', // Adds
css: 'data-inlined="true"' // Adds
},
src: 'src/index.html',
dest: 'dist/index.html'
}
}
}
});
```
### uglify
If uglify is assigned true, `.js` file will be minified before inlined.
```javascript
grunt.initConfig({
inline: {
dist: {
options:{
uglify: true
},
src: 'src/index.html',
dest: 'dist/index.html'
}
}
});
```
### exts
Setting an exts array allows multiple file extensions to be processed as
html.
```javascript
grunt.initConfig({
inline: {
dist: {
options:{
exts: ['jade'],
uglify: true
},
src: 'src/index.jade',
dest: 'dist/index.jade'
}
}
});
```
### Usage Examples
> config
```javascript
grunt.initConfig({
inline: {
dist: {
src: 'src/index.html'
}
}
});
```
>src/index.html
```html
demo
```
after `grunt inline` was run, it will be something like
```html
demo
```
#### inline tag
Suppose there is an `` tag in `index.html` like bellow
```html
```
The content of `test.html` is
```html
I'm inline html
hello world!
```
Then, after the `inline` task is run, the original content in `index.html` will be replaced with
```html
I'm inline html
hello world!
```
## Contributing
In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using [Grunt](http://gruntjs.com/).
## Release History
* 2019-12-20 v0.3.7 document optimized: markdown style problems of README
* 2015-01-09 v0.3.3 bug fix: when processing files of a folder and then copy the processed content to another destination, the original files are changed unexpectedly, as mentioned in this issue [Support file globbing for input and output](https://github.com/chyingp/grunt-inline/issues/35)
* 2014-06-16 v0.3.1 bug fix: protocol-relative urls in css are messed up
* 2014-06-15 v0.3.1 bug fix: when options.tag is '', then all img tags, whose src attribute has already been inlined will be matched.
* 2014-05-19 v0.3.0 support for new options.exts
* 2014-05-19 v0.2.9 bug fix: options.tag is assigned '', bug image url in css are not converted to base64 formate
* 2014-03-06 v0.2.6 bug fix: script tags like were not inlined
* 2014-01-31 v0.2.3 radded tag option, encode url(..) images.
* 2013-10-31 v0.2.2 bug fix: img urls like 'background: url(http://www.example.com/img/bg.png)' will be transformed to 'background: url(url(http://www.example.com/img/bg.png))'
* 2013-10-30 v0.2.1 bug fix: when processing relative file path of img url in css stylesheet, forgot to transform "\" to "/" for windows users
* 2013-10-30 v0.2.0 new feature: Support for minifing js、css when they ar inlined into html.
* 2013-08-30 v0.1.9 bug fix: stylesheets ended with ">" cannot be inlined
* 2013-09-02 v0.1.9 add feature: add options.dest to assign a destination path where the source file will be copied
* 2013-09-02 v0.1.8 add feature: support for `` tag
```
after `grunt inline` was run, it will be something like
```html