LESS.css Tutorials

LESS is a great way to make writing and maintaining CSS easier. LESS is a CSS pre-processor, and provides the ability to create variables and functions. This helps to save time when creating stylesheets.

These tutorials will show how to create stylesheets using the LESS language that are pre-processed by LESS and turned into standard CSS stylesheets. These you can simply provide on your website just like any CSS and will be interpreted by your visitors’ browser just like usual CSS.

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LESS CSS: Gantry Documentation

This tutorial describes using Less CSS with Gantry. Less allows your program to be cleaner and reduces the overall time to create and maintain code base. Less is designed to extend CSS and this tutorials shows Gantry’s template.

How to use LESS css properly in WordPress development

This tutorial shows how to use LESS CSS properly in WordPress development. Roy Sivan created this article. LESS is a great CSS pre-processor along with SASS. In this article, it shows the typcial CSS code and LESS code.

Using LESS CSS – Play Framework

This uses less.js and was created by Play Framework. This tutorial is using LESS CSS play framework. In using LESS CSS, it allows considerable flexibility in writing CSS files by supporting variables, mixins and more.

New Plugin Adds Less CSS Preprocessor to WordPress Themes

This article was made Sarah Gooding, published on WP Tavern, and it deals with adding a less CSS preprocessor to wordpress themes using a plugin. By adding less theme support, it simplifies the process of adding less to the word press theme.

What is LESS CSS, LESS CSS Tutorial, LESS CSS Basics

This is a tutorial made by Gaurav Kumar of Eco Park in knowing what in LESS CSS using less.js and CSS language. Less features variables, mixins, operations, and functions.

AngularJS Tutorial Series: Part 1 – Building a Calendar with LESS

This is a tutorial made by Chris Harrington in building a calendar with LESS and AngularJS directives using CSS, less.js, and JavaScript. This include directive usage, and calendar template.

Working with LESS CSS

This is a tutorial written by Dominik Wlazlowski in working with LESS CSS. This tutorial includes codes in client-side, mixins, nested rules, and functions in LESS CSS.

Working with CSS Style Sheets in an HTML5 Application

This is a tutorial made by Net Beans about working with CSS style sheets in an HTML5 application using CSS, less.js, and JavaScript. The tutorial includes a screencast about creating the HTML5 Application, viewing the application on different devices, modifying the layout, and using CSS preprocessors.

LESS CSS tutorial – the beginners guide to a CSS preprocessor.

This is the beginners tutorial to a CSS preprocessor made by Samuil of IOStream to learn about LESS and save the time repeating CSS code using less.js, CSS, and JavaScript.

Using the LESS CSS Preprocessor for Smarter Style Sheets

This is a tutorial made by Dmitry Fadeyev published on Smashing Magazine about using the LESS CSS pre-processor for a smarter style sheets using less.js, CSS,and JavaScript. This include codes for cleaner structure with nesting, variables for faster maintenance, reusing whole classes, operations, and namespaces and accessories.

Using Bootstrap With LESS CSS

This is a tutorial made by Atanas Ruzhin in using Bootstrap with LESS CSS using less.js and CSS language.This include less variables and mixins.

DON’T READ this Less CSS tutorial

This is a tutorial made by Jonathan of Verekia Blog about LESS CSS using JavaScript, CSS language, and less.js. This include the command line, and codes for teh variables, mixins, parametric mixins, operations, color functions, nested rules, and importing.

Understanding less.css and Creating Responsive Grids using less

This is a tutorial made by Saurabh Nayar of Code Project in understanding less.css and creating responsive grids using less.js, CSS language, and JavaScript. This include codes for the less.css mixins, variables and operators, and nested rules.

Building A WordPress Theme with LESS.css- Intro

This is a tutorial made by Curtis McHale of WP Theme Tutorial in building a WordPress theme with less.css. The tutorial used less.js and CSS language in building a WordPress theme. The tutorial includes a video in setting up the theme with LESS and getting the LESS files compiled with CodeKit.

Building a Calendar using React JS, LESS CSS and Font Awesome

This is a tutorial by Chris Harrington of Code Mentor in building a calendar using react JS, Less CSS, and Font Awesome. This include codes to split the calendar control up into a few different classes: Calendar, DayNames and Week.

LESS CSS – Beginner’s Guide

This is a tutorial encoded by Thoriq Firdaus of Hongkiat about implementing LESS CSS using JavaScript, less.js, and CSS langauge. The tutorial shows the different tool in compiling CSS such as, using JavaScript, using CLI, using task runner, and using graphical applications.

Using LESS CSS – Play Framework

This is a tutorial published on Play Framework about using LESS-based CSS with JavaScript. It includes a sample layout for using LESS in a project. This also includes codes for the configuration of the project.

Welcome to flask flask- lesscss v0.9.1

This is a documentation/tutorial published on Bit Bucket about using Less CSS while building the flask app using less.js and CSS. This include codes for the installation and the usage of the flask-lesscss.

DMXzone LESS CSS Compiler

This is a tutorial made by George Petrov of DMXzone about the Less CSS compiler. This include codes for dreamweaver integration.

Thinking About Strings, Quotes, Tokens, And Tildes In Less CSS

This is a tutorial by Ben Nadel in thinking about strings, quotes, tokens, and tildes in Less CSS using JavaScript, CSS, less.js, HTML, and node.js. This demo includes terms of “tokens” and “inputs;” and, using quotes as a means to group tokens that may or may not be wrapped in quotes.

Basics: Debugging & Customizing with LESS/CSS

This is a tutorial by James Spencer of Rocket Theme about debugging and customizing with LESS-based CSS using less.js, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP languages. This include codes for custom overriding default CSS-based LESS, using web inspectors, and finding rokBooster/compressed/compiled CSS.

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