blog.joaomorais.com » LESS http://blog.joaomorais.com Blog about software development, personal projects and development tools. Mon, 10 Apr 2017 02:26:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 LESS – Leaner CSS http://blog.joaomorais.com/less-leaner-css/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=less-leaner-css http://blog.joaomorais.com/less-leaner-css/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:26:42 +0000 João Morais http://blog.joaomorais.com/?p=384 LESS - Leaner CSSIf you’re used to work with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files, for sure that you’ve already wondered if wouldn’t it be cool if CSS supported variables?

Well, I’ve got news for you: now it does!

LESS or Leaner CSS if you prefer, is an extension of CSS which allows you to use variables, mixins, operations and nested rules. It was inspired by its predecessors – especially SASS, a ruby project which provides an alternative to a lot of the common problems CSS designers and web developers face when developing huge applications.

One of it’s great characteristics is that it is as seamless as possible with CSS, which is great, that way you don’t have to learn a whole new language. Which for me at first sight, was a turnoff in SASS.

You can read more about it in here

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