The Best CSS Static Analysis Tools (Linters/Formatters)
We rank 34 CSS linters, code analyzers, formatters, and more. Find and compare tools like Mega-Linter, biome, Codacy, and more. Please rate and review tools that you've used. This helps others find the best tools for their projects.
12 CSS Tools
squirrelscan
squirrelscan is a website QA tool built for coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor. Its squirrel CLI crawls a live site and runs 260+ audit rules across SEO, performance, security, accessibility, structured data and agent experience, then returns exact source-mapped fixes. Runs from the terminal, CI, the cloud, or over MCP.
22 Multi-Language Tools
Mega-Linter
Mega-Linter can handle any type of project thanks to its 70+ embedded Linters, its advanced reporting, runnable on any CI system or locally, with assisted installation and configuration, able to apply formatting and fixes
biome
A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome formats and lints code in a fraction of a second. It is the successor to Rome. It is designed to eventually replace Biome is designed to eventually replace Babel, ESLint, webpack, Prettier, Jest, and others.
Putout
Pluggable and configurable code transformer with built-in eslint, babel plugins support for js, jsx typescript, flow, markdown, yaml and json.
SonarQube Server
SonarQube empowers development teams with a code quality and security solution that deeply integrates into your enterprise environment; enabling you to deploy clean code consistently and reliably. SonarQube provides a free and open source Community Build.
Hound CI
Comments on style violations in GitHub pull requests. Supports Coffeescript, Go, HAML, JavaScript, Ruby, SCSS and Swift.
jscpd
Copy/paste detector for programming source code. Finds duplicated blocks in 200+ file formats — JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, C/C++, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby and more — using token-based detection. Supports configurable thresholds and ignore patterns, git blame integration, and reporters for console, HTML, JSON, Markdown, SARIF and badges. Runs via CLI, in CI pipelines, or as a library; bundled by MegaLinter and Codacy.
TencentCodeAnalysis
Tencent Cloud Code Analysis (TCA for short, code-named CodeDog inside the company early) is a comprehensive platform for code analysis and issue tracking. TCA consist of three components, server, web and client. It integrates of a number of self-developed tools, and also supports dynamic integration of code analysis tools in various programming languages.
Atom-Beautify
Beautify HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Coldfusion, SQL, and more in Atom editor.
BlockWatch
A language-agnostic linter that keeps code, documentation, and configuration in sync and enforces strict formatting and validation rules.
Fallow
Rust-native static analysis for JavaScript and TypeScript. Maps a repository as one dependency graph to find unused code and structural problems across file boundaries. Runs from the CLI or GitHub Actions, with VS Code, LSP, MCP, and Node API integrations.
SonarQube for IDE
SonarQube for IDE (formerly SonarLint) is a free IDE extension available for IntelliJ, VS Code, Visual Studio, and Eclipse, to find and fix coding issues in real-time, flagging issues as you code, just like a spell-checker. More than a linter, it also delivers rich contextual guidance to help developers understand why there is an issue, assess the risk, and educate them on how to fix it.
Unibeautify
Universal code beautifier with a GitHub app. Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, Vue, C++, Go, Objective-C, Java, Python, PHP, GraphQL, Markdown, and more.
autocorrect
A linter and formatter to help you to improve copywriting, correct spaces, words, punctuations between CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean).
CodeFlow
Automated code analysis tool to deal with technical depth. Integrates with Bitbucket and Gitlab. (free for Open Source Projects)
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are CSS tools?
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language. A style sheet is a collection of rules that tells a web browser how to display an HTML document.
What are the best CSS static analysis tools and linters?
The most popular CSS tools ranked by user votes are: Mega-Linter, biome, Codacy, Project Wallace CSS Analyzer, Putout.
Which CSS services are free for open source projects?
Commercial services with a free plan for open source include Mega-Linter, biome, Codacy, Project Wallace CSS Analyzer, Putout, cqc, SonarQube Server, Hound CI, jscpd, Stylelint, TencentCodeAnalysis, Atom-Beautify, BlockWatch, coala, CSS Stats, Fallow, GraphMyCSS.com, Nu Html Checker, Parker, PostCSS, sass-lint, scsslint, SonarQube Cloud, SonarQube for IDE, Specificity Graph, squirrelscan, Unibeautify, CSScomb, CSSLint, pfff, CodeFactor, autocorrect, CodeFlow.
