noEmptySource (CSS)
Summary
Section titled “Summary”- Rule available since:
v2.2.7 - Diagnostic Category:
lint/suspicious/noEmptySource - This rule isn’t recommended, so you need to enable it.
- This rule doesn’t have a fix.
- The default severity of this rule is warning.
- Sources:
- Same as
no-empty-source
- Same as
How to configure
Section titled “How to configure”{ "linter": { "rules": { "suspicious": { "noEmptySource": "error" } } }}Description
Section titled “Description”Disallow empty sources.
A file is empty when it contains no CSS rules or declarations. By default, whitespace and comments do not count as content.
Examples
Section titled “Examples”Invalid
Section titled “Invalid”code-block.css:2:1 lint/suspicious/noEmptySource ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⚠ An empty source is not allowed.
> 2 │
│
ℹ Empty sources can clutter the codebase and increase cognitive load; deleting empty sources can help reduce it.
/* Only comments */code-block.css:2:1 lint/suspicious/noEmptySource ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⚠ An empty source is not allowed.
1 │ /* Only comments */
> 2 │
│
ℹ Empty sources can clutter the codebase and increase cognitive load; deleting empty sources can help reduce it.
a { }Options
Section titled “Options”allowComments
Section titled “allowComments”Treats comments as meaningful content when set to true, so a comments-only file is valid.
An entirely empty file remains invalid. Defaults to false.
{ "linter": { "rules": { "suspicious": { "noEmptySource": { "level": "on", "options": { "allowComments": true } } } } }}Invalid
Section titled “Invalid”code-block.css:2:1 lint/suspicious/noEmptySource ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
⚠ An empty source is not allowed.
> 2 │
│
ℹ Empty sources can clutter the codebase and increase cognitive load; deleting empty sources can help reduce it.
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