Less is an open-source stylesheet preprocessor that extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. For the UNIX command, use [less-unix].
Less is an open-source stylesheet preprocessor that extends css with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. It was developed by Alexis Sellier, more commonly known as cloudhead and is now hosted on GitHub.
Less is written in JavaScript and can be run both on the client-side and the server-side (with Node.js, Rhino, etc.). The code compiles the Less syntax into CSS and thus what is ultimately rendered by the browser is CSS, not Less. The syntax itself is similar to CSS and you can use it seamlessly along with regular CSS. The file extension of Less files is .less.
External Links:
Online Less Compilers: (Recommended by the official Less website)
- LESS2CSS
- LESSTESTER
- WinLess - Online Less Compiler
- Less Converter
- Less.php Compiler
- Leafo.net Less PHP Editor
Online Demo Environments:
The following websites (also recommended by the official Less website) can be used to create a live demo of the problem area and can be linked in the question to further illustrate complex problems.
The name less is also the name of a unix command which displays a file. For questions on that topic, use less-unix.
