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LESS in 5 minutes

LESS is a handy precompiler for CSS, but as it develops it becomes so complex we start assuming that we need a tutorial or long read in order to understand it. I think it's worthwhile to use just a few very basic capabilities of LESS (leaner CSS) and that you can learn how to use ...

May 18, 2015

Kamiel Choi

77da34, CSS, LESS, precompiler

CSS, Web Development

More.less

@base: 663333; @complement2: darken(spin(@base, 180), 5%); @lighten2: lighten(@base, 30%); @lighter2: lighten(spin(@base, 10), 20%); @darker2: darken(spin(@base, -10), 20%); .opacity (@opacity: 0.5) { -webkit-opacity: @opacity; -moz-opacity: @opacity; opacity: @opacity; } .border-radius (@radius: 5px) { -webkit-border-radius: @radius; -moz-border-radius: @radius; border-radius: @radius; } .box-shadow (@string: 2px 2px 4px rgb(0,0,0,0.5)) { -webkit-box-shadow: @string; -moz-box-shadow: @string; box-shadow: @string; } .drop-shadow (@x: ...

May 18, 2015

Kamiel Choi

000000, 663333, CSS, ffffff, LESS

CSS, Web Development

WP_less

I'm a heavy user of LESS and I rejoiced when I learned that some geeks plugged in the LESS PHP-compiler into Wordpress - and it works out of the box! I didn't experience any issues with syntax (although you sound be careful as there are little difference between the LESS compilers) and the LESS files in ...

April 27, 2015

Kamiel Choi

CSS, enqueue less, LESS, mixins, precompiler, WP_less

CSS, Wordpress

@import in CSS: no space

I tortured myself over a particular piece of emptiness. Not the existential void we're thrown in by our creator, but the space I put before url in @import url ("../twentytwelve/style.css"); This is for wordpress stylesheet development, and with the space, the child theme doesn't load up the parent style.css. I just corrected it ...

November 14, 2014

Kamiel Choi

@import, child theme, CSS, stylesheet, theme development, wordpress

CSS, Wordpress

Mobile CSS

Surprised that my websites looked rather good on an iPhone 4, I took a closer look at them on the second hand mobile device my wife has (I don't endorse Apple Corporation until I see solid proof of it being anything else than a capitalist enterprise with the compulsion of endless expansion). Sorry to bother ...

February 15, 2013

Kamiel Choi

@screen, blog, CSS, mobile

CSS

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