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Description: Leaner CSS
Homepage: lesscss.org
Clone URL: git://github.com/cloudhead/less.git
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README.md

LESS

It's time CSS was done right – LESS is leaner css.

Explained

LESS allows you to write CSS the way (I think) it was meant to, that is: with variables, nested rules and mixins!

Here's some example LESS code:

@dark: #110011;
.outline { border: 1px solid black }

.article {
    a { text-decoration: none }
    p { color: @dark }
    .outline;
}

And the CSS output it produces:

.outline { border: 1px solid black }
.article a { text-decoration: none }
.article p { color: #110011 }
.article { border: 1px solid black }

If you have CSS nightmares, just

$ lessc style.less

For more information, see you at [http://lesscss.org]

People without whom this wouldn't have happened a.k.a Credits

  • Dmitry Fadeyev, for pushing me to do this, and designing our awesome website
  • August Lilleaas, for initiating the work on the treetop grammar, as well as writing the rails plugin
  • Nathan Sobo, for creating treetop
  • Jason Garber, for his magical performance optimizations on treetop
  • And finally, the people of #ruby-lang for answering all my ruby questions. apeiros, manveru and rue come to mind