LESS - Fade

Description

It is used to set the transparency of a color for selected elements. It has following parameters −

color − It represents color object.
amount − It contains percentage between 0 - 100%.

Example

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

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

   <body>
      <h2>Example of Fade Color Operation</h2>
      <div class = "myclass1">
         <p>color :<br>#426105</p>
      </div><br>

      <div class = "myclass2">
         <p>result :<br>rgba(66, 97, 5, 0.1)</p>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

Next, create the style.less file.

style.less

.myclass1 {
   height:100px;
   width:100px;
   padding: 30px 0px 0px 25px;
   background-color: hsl(80, 90%, 20%);
   color:white;
}

.myclass2 {
   height:100px;
   width:100px;
   padding: 30px 0px 0px 25px;
   background-color: fade(hsl(80, 90%, 20%), 10%);
   color:black;
}

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: #426105;
   color: white;
}

.myclass2 {
   height: 100px;
   width: 100px;
   padding: 30px 0px 0px 25px;
   background-color: rgba(66, 97, 5, 0.1);
   color: black;
}

Output

Follow these steps to see how the above code works −

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

less_color_operation.htm