# Location of CSS source code and how to rebuild MIN css files **URL:** \ **Category:** Authentic Theme\ **Created:** [February 14, 2023, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/location-of-css-source-code-and-how-to-rebuild-min-css-files/119253 "2023-02-14T22:38:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![verne](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/dbc845/32.png) [@verne](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/verne)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/location-of-css-source-code-and-how-to-rebuild-min-css-files/119253/1 "2023-02-14T22:38:31Z")
Finally trying out Authentic Theme as a recent post says the Virtualmin Framed Theme that I have used for years has been retired and has not been in active development for many years. I have found many xxxx.min.css and xxx.min.js files in various folders – is it possible to view and download the source of these for analysis and education, as well as obtaining the build instructions – so I can roll my own custom version? While is possible to read the MIN versions, its hard. Sorry if this is a newbie question 🙂 Verne ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/joe/32/9_2.png) [@Joe](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/location-of-css-source-code-and-how-to-rebuild-min-css-files/119253/2 "2023-02-14T23:29:40Z")
That’s a good question. I don’t see the original sources in the `authentic-theme` repo, either. @Ilia can the theme repo get the sources and whatever scripts are needed to build the `min` versions? ---
**Author:** ![Ilia](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/ilia/32/10185_2.png) [@Ilia](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Ilia)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/location-of-css-source-code-and-how-to-rebuild-min-css-files/119253/3 "2023-02-14T23:57:14Z")
> [@Joe](#): > > @Ilia can the theme repo get the sources and whatever scripts are needed to build the `min` versions? No, not at the moment … probably some day! But at the moment it isn’t really ready to be released to the public repo. ---
**Author:** ![Stegan](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/stegan/32/6860_2.png) [@Stegan](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Stegan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/location-of-css-source-code-and-how-to-rebuild-min-css-files/119253/4 "2023-02-15T13:09:31Z")
if these are standard minimised .css or .js there are many dev tools out there to unminimize them (even the standard dev tools that comes with the Chrome browser. these have to be interpreted by the program that handles them (a web browser) they are normally only packed to remove spaces etc and not encrypted. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/joe/32/9_2.png) [@Joe](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/location-of-css-source-code-and-how-to-rebuild-min-css-files/119253/5 "2023-02-15T17:53:57Z")
They are not encrypted, and most of them are combinations of existing libraries, rather than custom code. But, it’s valuable to have the unminimized and commented versions of the unique code in our repos (the third party library stuff doesn’t matter, as long as someone can find the originals, easily). Open Source should be readable by humans. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cd96d761e326db4b2bef94886a639109bd7a8e76.svg) [@system](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/location-of-css-source-code-and-how-to-rebuild-min-css-files/119253/6 "2023-04-16T17:54:59Z")
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