Friday, March 3, 2017

LESS - Importing

Description

It is used to import the contents of the LESS or CSS files.

Example

The below example demonstrates use of importing in the LESS file:
<html>
<head>
   <title>Less Importing</title>
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
   <h1>Example using Importing</h1>
   <p class="myclass">LESS enables customizable, manageable and reusable style sheet for web site.</p>
   <p class="myclass1">It allows reusing CSS code and writing LESS code with same semantics.</p>
   <p class="myclass2">LESS supports creating cleaner, cross-browser friendly CSS faster and easier.</p>
</body>
</html>
Next, create file myfile.less.

myfile.less

.myclass{
    color: #FF8000;
}

.myclass1{
    color: #5882FA;
}
Next, create file style.less.

style.less

@import "http://www.tutorialspoint.com/less/myfile.less";
.myclass2
{
color: #FF0000;
}
The myfile.less file which will be imported into style.less from the path http://www.tutorialspoint.com/less/myfile.less
You can compile the style.less file to style.css by using the following command:
lessc style.less style.css
Next execute the above command, it will create style.css file automatically with the below code:

style.css

.myclass {
  color: #FF8000;
}
.myclass1 {
  color: #5882FA;
}
.myclass2 {
  color: #FF0000;
}

Output

Let's carry out the following steps to see how above code works:
  • Save the above html code in importing.html file.
  • Open this HTML file in a browser, an output as below gets displayed.
Less Importing

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