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block-opening-brace-newline-before ​

Require a newline or disallow whitespace before the opening brace of blocks.

css
  a
    { color: pink; }
/** ↑
 * The newline before this brace */

The fix option can automatically fix all of the problems reported by this rule.

Options ​

string: "always"|"always-single-line"|"never-single-line"|"always-multi-line"|"never-multi-line"

"always" ​

There must always be a newline before the opening brace.

The following patterns are considered problems:

css
a{ color: pink; }
css
a{ color: pink;
}

The following patterns are not considered problems:

css
a
{ color: pink; }
css
a
{
color: pink; }
css
a /* foo */
  {
    color: pink;
  }

"always-single-line" ​

There must always be a newline before the opening brace in single-line blocks.

The following patterns are considered problems:

css
a{ color: pink; }

The following patterns are not considered problems:

css
a
{ color: pink; }
css
a{
color: pink; }

"never-single-line" ​

There must never be whitespace before the opening brace in single-line blocks.

The following patterns are considered problems:

css
a { color: pink; }

The following patterns are not considered problems:

css
a{ color: pink; }
css
a {
color: pink; }

"always-multi-line" ​

There must always be a newline before the opening brace in multi-line blocks.

The following patterns are considered problems:

css
a{
color: pink; }
css
a {
color: pink; }

The following patterns are not considered problems:

css
a{ color: pink; }
css
a { color: pink; }
css
a
{ color: pink; }
css
a
{
color: pink; }

"never-multi-line" ​

There must never be whitespace before the opening brace in multi-line blocks.

The following patterns are considered problems:

css
a {
color: pink; }

The following patterns are not considered problems:

css
a { color: pink; }
css
a{
color: pink;}

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