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Sprite Sheet Generator (Strip)

Combine images into a single horizontal sprite strip with matching CSS background-position rules.

Processing Mode

100% client-side via the browser's Canvas API and lightweight JS libraries — no file chunks are ever uploaded.

Privacy & Speed

Zero latency from uploads. Nothing you drop or paste here is sent to a server.

Local Hardware

Metadata parsing and pixel recompression run through your browser's Canvas rendering — no server-side image pipeline.


This tool packs images into a single horizontal strip — it lays each uploaded image side by side in the order you selected them, left to right, in one row. It doesn't currently do grid packing (multiple rows/columns), padding between sprites, or an optimized bin-packing layout that minimizes wasted space; the strip's width is simply the sum of every image's width, and its height matches the tallest image.

What you get

A single PNG containing all your images side by side, plus matching CSS: one .sprite base rule and one positioned rule per image, using background-position offsets calculated from where each image landed in the strip.

When a simple strip is genuinely enough

For a small icon set (a handful of UI icons, a short animation sequence), a horizontal strip works exactly like a grid-packed sheet from the browser's perspective — one image request instead of many, addressed via CSS background-position. The generated CSS is standard and drops straight into a stylesheet.

When you need a different tool

For a large icon set or a sprite sheet where minimizing file size and dimensions matters (many icons of varying sizes, where a horizontal strip would be unnecessarily wide), a bin-packing sprite tool that arranges images into a compact grid will produce a smaller, more efficient output than this strip layout.

Common uses

  • Combining a handful of UI icons into one image to cut down on HTTP requests
  • Packing a short animation frame sequence into a single strip for CSS background-position stepping
  • Bundling a small set of related icons for a quick prototype

FAQ

What image formats can I upload?

Any format your browser can decode as an image (PNG, JPEG, WebP, etc.) — the output sprite sheet itself is always PNG.

Can I arrange sprites into a grid instead of one row?

Not currently — every export is a single horizontal row, sized to fit all the uploaded images side by side.

Does it generate a JSON manifest in addition to CSS?

Not yet — the current output is a CSS file with background-position rules per sprite, not a separate JSON coordinate manifest.

Is there a limit on how many sprites I can pack?

No hard limit is enforced, but a horizontal strip gets proportionally wider with each image added — for a large number of images, a grid-packing tool will produce a more practical result.

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