Whitelisting

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Whitelisting

You can whitelist selectors to stop PurgeCSS from removing them from your CSS. This can be accomplished with the PurgeCSS options whitelist and whitelistPatterns, or directly in your CSS with a special comment.
Specific selectors
You can whitelist selectors with whitelist.
const purgecss = new Purgecss({
    content: [], // content
    css: [], // css
    whitelist: ['random', 'yep', 'button']
})
In the example, the selectors .random, #yep, button will be left in the final CSS.
Patterns
You can whitelist selectors based on a regular expression with whitelistPatterns and whitelistPatternsChildren.
const purgecss = new Purgecss({
    content: [], // content
    css: [], // css
    whitelistPatterns: [/red$/],
    whitelistPatternsChildren: [/blue$/]
})
In the example, selectors ending with red such as .bg-red, and children of selectors ending with blue such as blue p or .bg-blue .child-of-bg, will be left in the final CSS.
Patterns are regular expressions. You can use regexr to verify the regular expressions correspond to what you are looking for.
In the CSS directly
You can whitelist directly in your CSS with a special comment. Use /* purgecss ignore */ to whitelist the next rule.
/* purgecss ignore */
h1 {
    color: blue;
}
Use /* purgecss ignore current */ to whitelist the current rule.
h1 {
    /* purgecss ignore current */
    color: blue;
}
You can use /* purgecss start ignore */ and /* purgecss end ignore */ to whitelist a range of rules.
/* purgecss start ignore */
h1 {
  color: blue;
}
​
h3 {
  color: green;
}
/* purgecss end ignore */
​
h4 {
  color: purple;
}
​
/* purgecss start ignore */
h5 {
  color: pink;
}
​
h6 {
  color: lightcoral;
}
​
/* purgecss end ignore */

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Specific selectors

Patterns

In the CSS directly