25 MB CSS sample

A CSS file of exactly 26,214,400 bytes. It is a valid Cascading Style Sheets file, generated by this site. Compare its checksum and test it with the parser used by your application. Use it wherever you need a 25 MB sample, test or dummy CSS file.

sample-css-25mb.css

25 MB26,214,400 bytes

Download 25 MB CSS

Created in your browser in a few seconds, then checked against the SHA-256 checksum. The file is not uploaded anywhere. No sign-up.

Type: text/css
SHA-256: 7b61eb6cc825983e9ad0d114e5f4af70570e38111fb395c4d3c67c281215d4fc
Delivery: Created in your browser from static generator assets (how it works).

What is in this file

A custom property block, a body rule and 262,382 class rules with colours, margins, padding and border radii. A comment at the end brings the file to the exact size.

Rules	262,384
Custom properties	2
Imports	None
Encoding	UTF-8 (ASCII characters only)

How the file begins

The opening lines of sample-css-25mb.css, exactly as they appear in the file.

00000000  2f 2a 20 53 61 6d 70 6c  65 54 65 73 74 46 69 6c |/* SampleTestFil|
00000010  65 73 20 73 61 6d 70 6c  65 20 43 53 53 20 66 69 |es sample CSS fi|
00000020  6c 65 20 28 32 35 20 4d  42 29 20 2a 2f 0a 3a 72 |le (25 MB) */.:r|
00000030  6f 6f 74 20 7b 0a 20 20  2d 2d 69 6e 6b 3a 20 23 |oot {.  --ink: #|

Preview

Creates the file in your browser and shows the first 64 KB of it.

Where 25 MB matters

A 26,214,400-byte file, 25 MB in the binary units that operating systems and upload limits use. It is useful wherever a form, an API gateway, a storage quota or a mail server is configured with a limit of about this size.

All 25 MB sample files

Use this file for

Finding the first upload limit in a new stack
Testing code editors and syntax highlighters
Testing minifiers and bundlers

Testing notes for CSS

With X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff, browsers refuse a stylesheet that is not served as text/css.

CSS format reference

Technical details

File name	sample-css-25mb.css
Format	CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
Extension	.css
MIME type	text/css
Size	26,214,400 bytes (25 MB)
Kind	Text
SHA-256	7b61eb6cc825983e9ad0d114e5f4af70570e38111fb395c4d3c67c281215d4fc
Created	2026-10-23
Validation	See the listed size and SHA-256. Small downloads are checked in the browser; verify streamed downloads manually. A hash match does not prove parser compatibility.
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Code

Check the stated structure and checksum against your application requirements. As with any download, scan the file with your own security tools before opening it. How files are made and checked

Verify your copy

This file is created in your browser, so it has no direct URL for curl or wget. The generator is designed to produce reproducible bytes. After saving, compare the checksum with the SHA-256 value above.

sha256sum sample-css-25mb.css     # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-css-25mb.css # macOS

On Windows, run Get-FileHash sample-css-25mb.css -Algorithm SHA256 in PowerShell. For scripts and pipelines, save the file once and keep your own copy.

Related files

Questions about this file

Is this file exactly 25 MB?: Yes. It is 26,214,400 bytes, which is 25 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 25 MB CSS file?: A custom property block, a body rule and 262,382 class rules with colours, margins, padding and border radii. A comment at the end brings the file to the exact size.
What do the sample stylesheets contain?: Custom properties, a body rule and a long list of class rules, with no @import rules or external URLs.

Download