Friday, March 3, 2017

LESS - Scope

Description

Variable scope specifies place of the available variable. The variables will be searched from the local scope and if they are not available, then compiler will search from the parent scope.

Example

The below example demonstrates use of namespaces and accessors in the LESS file:
<html>
<head>
   <title>Less Scope</title>
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
   <h1>Example using Scope</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

@var: @a;
@a: 15px;

.myclass {
  font-size: @var;
  @a:20px;
  color: green;
}
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 {
  font-size: 20px;
  color: green;
}

Output

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

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