grunt-encode-css-images

Replace references to images in CSS with Base64 encoding of source image.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-encode-css-images --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-encode-css-images');

The "encode-css-images" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named encode-css-images to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  encode-css-images: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

options.imageDir

Type: String Default value: ''

A string value that is joined to absolute image file paths.

Ex:

.myIcon { background-image: url(/images/my/icon.svg) }

grunt.initConfig({
  encode-css-images: {
    options: {
      imageDir: 'lib/public'
    },
    ...

Given the above, icon.svg will be looked for at lib/public/images/my/icon.svg