LESS - Import Options Inline Keyword

Description

The @import (inline) statement will copy your CSS into the output CSS file without processing it. This is useful when the CSS file is not LESS compatible. Although LESS supports most standards CSS, comments are not supported in some places and without modifying the CSS, it will not support all known CSS hacks. Even though @import (inline) will not process the CSS, it will ensure that all your CSS will be in one file. This was released in version 1.5.0.

Example

The following example demonstrates the use of reference keyword in the LESS file −

<html>
   <head>
      <link rel = "stylesheet" href = "style.css" type = "text/css" />
      <title>Import Option Inline</title>
   </head>

   <body>
      <h1>Welcome to Tutorialspoint</h1>
      <p>LESS is a CSS pre-processor that enables customizable, 
      manageable and reusable style sheet for web site.</p>
   </body>
</html>

Next, create the style.less file.

style.less

@import (inline) "http://www.tutorialspoint.com/less/import_inline.css";
p {
   color:red;
}

The following code will import the import_inline.css file into style.less from the path https://www.tutorialspoint.com/less/import_inline.css with the following code −

import_inline.css

.style {
   font-family: "Comic Sans MS";
   font-size: 20px;
}

You can compile the style.less 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

.style {
   font-family: "Comic Sans MS";
   font-size: 20px;
}

p {
   color: red;
}

Output

Follow these steps to see how the above code works −

  • Save the above html code in the import_options_inline.html file.

  • Open this HTML file in a browser, the following output will get displayed.

LESS Import Options Inline

If you try to use the .style class inside the p tag in style.less, it will throw an undefined error.

less_import_options.htm
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