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Learning less.js

Develop attractive CSS styles efficiently, using the Less CSS preprocessor

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|Oct 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are a designer or developer who wants to quickly learn how to harness the power of Less.js to write more efficient CSS styles that can be applied to a website of any size, then this book is for you. This book will help you master both the basic functions and advanced features of Less.js. It would be helpful to have some familiarity of writing CSS styles, although no prior experience of using CSS preprocessors is required.

    What you will learn

    • Explore the different features of the Less library
    • Build an effective toolkit that helps in your development workflow, using different tools in Less
    • Streamline the effort required when constructing themes for content management systems, such as WordPress, using Less
    • Discover how you can use Less to make frameworks work for you in an effective way
    • Enhance the use of Less when working with color, one of the key elements of website design
    • Work with Less to reduce the effort required to construct responsive websites
    • Add flair to your website or online application with animation effects using Less

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. What is LESS?
    2. Building a Toolkit for LESS
    3. Getting Started with LESS
    4. Working with Variables, Functions and Mixins
    5. Inheritance, Overriding and Nesting in LESS
    6. Migrating your site to LESS
    7. Manipulating Fonts with LESS
    8. Media queries with LESS
    9. Working with LESS in a CMS
    10. Using Bootstrap with LESS
    11. Abstracting CSS frameworks with LESS
    12. Colour processing with LESS
    13. Animation with LESS
    14. Extending and Contributing to LESS
    15. Preface
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78216-067-0
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 342
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