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LESS - Parent Selectors
Description
The Parent selectors operator has many uses like, when you need to combine the nested rule's selectors in other way than the default. Another typical use of & is to generate class names repeatedly.
Example
The following example demonstrates to generate class names repeatedly in the LESS file −
<html> <head> <link rel = "stylesheet" href = "style.css" type = "text/css" /> <title>Parent Selector</title> </head> <body> <h2>Welcome to TutorialsPoint</h2> <p class = "select-first">It is possible to reference the parent selector by using &(ampersand) operator.</p> <p class = "select-second">It is possible to reference the parent selector by using &(ampersand) operator</p> <p class = "select-third">It is possible to reference the parent selector by using &(ampersand) operator.</p> </body> </html>
Now create the style.less file.
style.less
.select { &-first { background-color: #58D3F7; } &-second { background-color: #F5F6CE; } &-third { background-color: #F5A9E1; } }
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
.select-first { background-color: #58D3F7; } .select-second { background-color: #F5F6CE; } .select-third { background-color: #F5A9E1; }
Output
Follow these steps to see how the above code works −
Save the above html code in the parent_selector22.htm file.
Open this HTML file in a browser, the following output will get displayed.
less_parent_selectors.htm
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