Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting to Grips with the Basics of Less -- Introduction -- Downloading, installing, and integrating less.js -- Installing the lessc compiler with npm -- Using less.js with Rhino -- Declaring variables with Less for commonly used values -- Setting the properties of CSS styles with mixins -- Writing more intuitive code and making inheritance clear with nested rules -- Creating complex relationships between properties -- Using the built-in functions of Less -- Using namespaces to make your code reusable and portable -- Chapter 2: Debugging and Documenting Your Less Code -- Introduction -- Debugging your code with less.js -- Using CSS source maps to debug your code -- Using Chrome Developer Tools to debug your code -- Commenting your code in Less -- Building style guides with tdcss.js -- Building style guides with StyleDocco -- Chapter 3: Using Variables and Mixins -- Introduction -- Deriving a set of variables from a single base variable -- Value escaping with the ~"value" syntax -- Using variable interpolation -- Redeclaring variables based on lazy loading -- Using mixins to set properties -- Declaring a class and mixin at once -- Using selectors inside mixins -- Using parametric mixins -- Chapter 4: Leveraging the Less Built-in Functions -- Introduction -- Converting units with the convert() function -- Using the default() function -- Embedding images with data URIs -- Formatting strings -- Replacing a text within a string -- Working with lists -- Using mathematical functions -- Using the color() function -- Evaluating the type of a value -- Creating color objects with RGB values -- Getting information about a color -- Creating a color variant with the darken() and lighten() functions.

Creating overlays of two colors with Less -- Chapter 5: Extending and Referencing -- Introduction -- 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 -- Chapter 6: Advanced Less Coding -- Introduction -- Giving your rules importance with the !important statement -- Using mixins with multiple parameters -- Using duplicate mixin names -- Building a switch to leverage argument matching -- Avoiding individual parameters to leverage the @arguments variable -- Using the @rest... variable to use mixins with a variable number of arguments -- Using mixins as functions -- Passing rulesets to mixins -- Using mixin guards (as an alternative for the if…else statements) -- Building loops leveraging mixin guards -- Applying guards to the CSS selectors -- Creating color contrasts with Less -- Changing the background color dynamically -- Aggregating values under a single property -- Chapter 7: Leveraging Libraries with Prebuilt Mixins -- Introduction -- Importing and downloading prebuilt mixin libraries -- Using namespacing with prebuilt libraries -- Creating background gradients -- Building unlimited gradients with Less Hat -- Building a layout with the CSS3 flexbox module -- Getting retina ready with Preboot -- Generating font-face declarations with Clearless -- Improving your website's SEO with 3L mixins -- Leveraging sprite images with Pre -- Creating bidirectional styling without code duplication -- Creating animations with animations.css -- Creating animations with More.less -- Building semantic grids with semantic.gs.

Building an alternative for fluid grids with Frameless -- Building a fluid responsive grid system -- Chapter 8: Building a Layout with Less -- Introduction -- Using CSS Reset with Less -- Importing and organizing your Less files -- Importing files with the @import directive -- Building a grid with grid classes -- Creating responsive grids -- Building a semantic grid with mixins -- Applying the flexbox grid on your design -- Integrating a navigation menu in the layout -- Repositioning your content -- Chapter 9: Using Bootstrap with Less -- Introduction -- Downloading and installing Bootstrap -- Customizing Bootstrap with variables -- Making custom buttons -- Making custom panels -- Making custom navigation bars -- Extending components using :extend -- Reusing Bootstrap's grid -- Using Bootstrap classes and mixins -- Extending Bootstrap with your own mixins -- Making custom color schemes with 1pxdeep -- Autoprefixing Bootstrap's CSS -- Chapter 10: Less and WordPress -- Introduction -- Installing WordPress -- Developing your WordPress theme with Less -- Integrating Bootstrap into your WordPress theme -- Using Semantic UI to theme your WordPress website -- Customizing Roots.io with Less -- Building a WordPress website with the JBST theme -- Chapter 11: Compiling Less Real Time for Development Using Grunt -- Introduction -- Installing Node and Grunt -- Installing Grunt plugins -- Utilizing the Gruntfile.js file -- Loading Grunt tasks -- Adding a configuration definition for a plugin -- Adding the Less compiler task -- Creating CSS source maps with the Less compiler task -- Cleaning and minimizing your code -- Adding the watch task -- Adding the connect and open task -- Adding the concurrent task -- Analyzing your code with CSS Lint -- Removing unused CSS using Grunt -- Compiling style guides with Grunt -- Automatically prefix your code with Grunt.

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