Friday, March 3, 2017

LESS - Nested Directives and Bubbling

Description

You can nest the directives such as media and keyframe in the same manner, how you nest the selectors. You can place the directive on top and its relative elements will not be changed inside its rule set. This is known as bubbling process.

Example

The below example demonstrates use of nested directives and bubbling in the LESS file:
<html>
<head>
   <title>Nested Directives</title>
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
   <h1>Example using Nested Directives</h1>
   <p class="myclass">LESS enables customizable, manageable and reusable style sheet for web site.</p>
</body>
</html>
Next, create file style.less.

style.less

.myclass {
  @media screen {
    color: blue;
    @media (min-width: 1024px) {
      color: green;
    }
  }
  @media mytext {
    color: black;
  }
}
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

@media screen {
  .myclass {
    color: blue;
  }
}
@media screen and (min-width: 1024px) {
  .myclass {
    color: green;
  }
}
@media mytext {
  .myclass {
    color: black;
  }
}

Output

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

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