LESS Tutorial on LESS Importing
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description

it is used to import the contents of the less or css files.

example

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

<html>
   <head>
      <title>less importing</title>
      <link rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" href = "style.css" />
   </head>

   <body>
      <h1>example using importing</h1>
      <p class = "myclass">less enables customizable, 
      manageable and reusable style sheet for web site.</p>
      <p class = "myclass1">it allows reusing css code and 
      writing less code with same semantics.</p>
      <p class = "myclass2">less supports creating cleaner, 
      cross-browser friendly css faster and easier.</p>
   </body>
</html>

now create the myfile.less file.

myfile.less

.myclass {
   color: #ff8000;
}

.myclass1 {
   color: #5882fa;
}

now create the style.less file.

style.less

@import "http://www.tutorialspoint.com/less/myfile.less";
.myclass2 {
   color: #ff0000;
}

the myfile.less file which will be imported into style.less from the path https://www.tutorialspoint.com/less/myfile.less

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

.myclass {
   color: #ff8000;
}

.myclass1 {
   color: #5882fa;
}

.myclass2 {
   color: #ff0000;
}

output

follow these steps to see how the above code works −

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

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

less importing
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