LESS - Tint

Description

It is used to mix the color with white as you decrease the proportion of the color. It has the following parameters −

color − It represents a color object.
weight − It is an optional parameter that specifies the weight of an element by providing percentage balance point between color and white.

Example

The following example demonstrates the use of tint color operation in the LESS file −

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

   <body>
      <h2>Example of Tint Color Operation</h2>
      <div class = "myclass1">
         <p>color :<br>rgba(66, 97, 5, 0.5)</p>
      </div><br>

      <div class = "myclass2">
         <p>result :<br>rgba(208, 216, 193, 0.75)</p>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

Next, create the style.less file.

style.less

.myclass1 {
   height:100px;
   width:100px;
   padding: 30px 0px 0px 25px;
   background-color: rgba(66, 97, 5, 0.5);
   color:white;
}

.myclass2 {
   height:100px;
   width:100px;
   padding: 30px 0px 0px 25px;
   background-color: tint(rgba(66, 97, 5, 0.5),50%);
   color:white;
}

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

.myclass1 {
   height: 100px;
   width: 100px;
   padding: 30px 0px 0px 25px;
   background-color: rgba(66, 97, 5, 0.5);
   color: white;
}

.myclass2 {
   height: 100px;
   width: 100px;
   padding: 30px 0px 0px 25px;
   background-color: rgba(208, 216, 193, 0.75);
   color: white;
}

Output

Follow these steps to see how the above code works −

Save the above html code in the tint.html file.
Open this HTML file in a browser, the following output will get displayed.

less_color_operation.htm