Comments on: CSS preprocessor

By: sjsqmgg

sjsqmgg — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:01:16 +0000

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By: Andi

Andi — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:10:47 +0000

Fell out of bed feeling down. This has brgitehned my day!

By: zalun

zalun — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:21:41 +0000

This should solve your problem
http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/432/

By: nate

nate — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:56:29 +0000

Please check out CSSPP

By: James

James — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:09:17 +0000

Try p4, the Perl based macro processor.
http://klicman.org/p4/

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:14:33 +0000

Stefan: Because my scripting framework/language (Django/Python) doesn’t allow in-template calculations etc. I’d just like some offline functionality.

The main issue, being able to refer to other element properties, is still not solved.

By: Stefan Georg

Stefan Georg — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:13:21 +0000

why not just include style.php as your CSS file where you define $COLOR1 = “BLACK”; then where you need it
font-color:= or use whatever scripting language your server supports?

By: Matthew W. S. Bell

Matthew W. S. Bell — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:56:43 +0000

If you’re using the same font colour in more than one class of things, you should split that properties section out and use multiple selectors:

.foo, #bar .baz, .bar:hover {
color: #defaced;
}

.foo {
height: 100%;
}

.baz {
height: 500em;
}

Obviously, this isn’t the only use case for a preprocessor.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:33:31 +0000

I know that’s possible. This still doesn’t allow calculations inside your CSS files though, and could introduce a huge amount of (unnecessary) classes. Even in relatively small stylesheets/sites it can become hard to know which stylesheet is used by which elements in the site.

By: Pavel

Pavel — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:29:09 +0000

xml elements can have several css classes, so you can create template css classes holding only one variable. no preprocessor needed for that.