LESS Tutorial on LESS Escaping
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description

it builds selectors dynamically and uses property or variable value as arbitrary string.

example

the following example demonstrates the use of escaping in the less file −

<html>
   <head>
      <title>less escaping</title>
      <link rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" href = "style.css" />
   </head>
   
   <body>
      <h1>example using escaping</h1>
      <p>less enables customizable, manageable and reusable style sheet for web site.</p>
   </body>
</html>

now create the style.less file.

style.less

p {
   color: ~"green";
}

you can compile the style.less file to style.css by using the following command −

lessc style.less style.css

execute the above command, it will create the style.css file automatically with the following code −

style.css

p {
   color: green;
}

anything written inside ~"some_text" will be displayed as some_text after compiling the less code to css code.

output

let us now perform the following steps to see how the above code works −

  • save the above html code in the escaping.html file.

  • open this html file in a browser, the following output will get displayed.

less escaping
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