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LESS WEB DEVELOPMENT COOKBOOK

You're reading from LESS WEB DEVELOPMENT COOKBOOK Over 110 practical recipes to help you write leaner, more efficient CSS code

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783981489

Length 394 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

CSS

Tools

Less

Concepts

Web Utilities

Authors (2):

Jobsen

Meyghani

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting to Grips with the Basics of Less FREE CHAPTER

2. Debugging and Documenting Your Less Code

3. Using Variables and Mixins

4. Leveraging the Less Built-in Functions

5. Extending and Referencing

6. Advanced Less Coding

7. Leveraging Libraries with Prebuilt Mixins

8. Building a Layout with Less

9. Using Bootstrap with Less

10. Less and WordPress

11. Compiling Less Real Time for Development Using Grunt

Index

Chapter 5. Extending and Referencing

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Referencing parent selectors with the & operator
Referencing to the parent selector more than once
Changing the selecting order with the & operator
Using extend to merge selectors
Using extend inside a ruleset
Extending with the all keyword
Extending with media queries
Using extend to reduce the compiled CSS size
Using extend as an alternative for a mixin

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Authors (2)

Jobsen

Jobsen

Bass Jobsen has been programming the web since 1995, ranging from C to PHP. He has a special interest in the processes between designer and programmer. He works on the accessibility of Bootstrap and his JBST WordPress starters theme. With over 5 years of experience with Bootstrap, Bass has been actively contributing to the community with his blogs and Git repos.

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Meyghani

Meyghani

Amin Meyghani is a designer and developer currently working at HD MADE (http://hdmade.com/), making automation tools, websites, and apps. He is also a lead developer at Flitti (http://flitti.com/), leading the team to make next-generation gamification apps. In addition to arts and technology, Amin has always been passionate about teaching. He takes advantage of every opportunity to share his knowledge with the world through books, blogs, or videos. You can find his works and blogs at http://meyghani.com/. When Amin is not coding, he is either enjoying Persian food or mastering his Persian calligraphy techniques.

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