Less (stylesheet language)
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Less (sometimes stylized as LESS) is a dynamic style sheet language that can be compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), or can run on the client-side and server-side.
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Description
Less is influenced by Sass and has influenced the newer "SCSS" syntax of Sass, which adapted its CSS-like block formatting syntax.
Open source
Less is open source.
JavaScript
Its first version was written in Ruby. In later versions, use of Ruby is deprecated and replaced by JavaScript.
Nested metalanguage
The indented syntax of Less is a nested metalanguage, as valid CSS is valid Less code with the same semantics.
Features
Less provides the following features:
- Variables
- Nesting
- Mixins
- Operators
- Functions
The main difference between Less and other CSS precompilers being that Less allows real-time compilation via less.js by the browser.
See also
External links
- Less (stylesheet language) @ Wikipedia
