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 Selector
less_parent_selectors.htm
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