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Rapid LESS [Video]

By : Reme Le Hane
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Rapid LESS [Video]

By: Reme Le Hane

Overview of this book

<p>With time being such a valuable commodity in this day and age, being able to enhance and even simplify your workflow while building and maintaining websites is priceless. Using LESS you can reduce the time it takes for the development and maintenance of your website through cleaner, more dynamic, and easily updatable stylesheets.</p> <p>This course will take you through all the essential tools to begin writing better CSS with LESS.<br />We will begin with the basics of LESS, highlighting all the key features in easy-to-follow, step-by-step chunks, ending with some existing scenarios where LESS could be beneficial and additional publications to further your education.<br />Then we will cover variables, LESS' way of storing repetitive data such as color values, font sizes, and more using customized names. After this, we will take a look at mixins, a CSS type function in LESS that, among other things, will greatly simplify the use of CSS3. In nesting, we will discuss how to write shorter, cleaner CSS. Finally, we’ll cover various functions and operations available within LESS that will allow you to further simplify your CSS and perform some really impressive actions you thought you’d never be able to do!</p> <p>Rapid LESS will take you through LESS in a step-by-step way, so that you not only know how to write smart code, but why it’s a beneficial addition to your existing workflow.</p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>A quick and easy-to-follow guide to learning LESS and enhancing your CSS skills. It comes with exercise files that use the LESS CSS preprocessor and help you write code that provides great designing capabilities.</p>
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 5
LESS Functions and Operations
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Section 1
Math Operations
Math operations are great for creating dynamic font-sizes and line heights to keep everything well balanced in the event of last minute changes. - Highlighting the benefits of being able to set your font sizes, line heights, and other various measurement items in a style sheet to a more dynamic nature - Working through an example to show how math operations are executed and highlighting the precedence used when working with them - Elaborating some additional operations that are available to emphasize the support for all major operations