Nested Rules Using the LESS Framework

Dan — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:15:47 +0000

Lately I’ve been toying with the LESS framework. With LESS, developers are able to use CSS variables, mixins and nested rules. I understand that variables and mixins can help a user code more efficiently, but what I was most interested in was the nesting. With LESS, we can code something like this:

#header {
  h1 {
    font-size: 26px;
    font-weight: bold;
  }
  p { font-size: 12px;
    a { text-decoration: none;
      &:hover { border-width: 1px }
    }
  }
}

This code will produce the following:

#header h1 {
  font-size: 26px;
  font-weight: bold;
}
#header p {
  font-size: 12px;
}
#header p a {
  text-decoration: none;
}
#header p a:hover {
  border-width: 1px;
}

Pretty neat if you ask me. Check it out at lesscss.org.

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Dan — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:20:28 +0000

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Nested Rules Using the LESS Framework

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