Django LESS provides template tags to compile LESS into CSS from templates. It works with both inline code and extenal files.
- Add
"less"
toINSTALLED_APPS
setting. - Make sure that you have
lessc
executable installed. See LESS official site for details. - Optionally, you can specify the full path to
lessc
executable withLESS_EXECUTABLE
setting. By default it's set tolessc
.
{% load less %}
<style>
{% inlineless %}
#header {
h1 {
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: bold;
}
p { font-size: 12px;
a { text-decoration: none;
&:hover { border-width: 1px }
}
}
}
{% endless %}
</style>
renders to
<style>
#header h1 {
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: bold;
}
#header p {
font-size: 12px;
}
#header p a {
text-decoration: none;
}
#header p a:hover {
border-width: 1px;
}
</style>
{% load less %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ STATIC_URL}}{% less "path/to/styles.less" %}" />
renders to
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/LESS_CACHE/path/to/styles-91ce1f66f583.css" />
Note that by default compiled files are saved into LESS_CACHE
folder under your STATIC_ROOT
(or MEDIA_ROOT
if you have no STATIC_ROOT
in your settings). You can change this folder name with LESS_OUTPUT_DIR
setting.
Note that all relative URLs in your stylesheet are converted to absolute URLs using your STATIC_URL
setting.
LESS_EXECUTABLE
Path to LESS compiler executable. Default:
"lessc"
.LESS_OUTPUT_DIR
Output directory for compiled external stylesheets. It's relative to
STATIC_ROOT
. Default:"LESS_CACHE"
.LESS_USE_CACHE
Whether to use cache for inline styles. Default:
True
.LESS_CACHE_TIMEOUT
Cache timeout for inline styles (in seconds). Default: 30 days.
LESS_MTIME_DELAY
Cache timeout for reading the modification time of external stylesheets (in seconds). Default: 10 seconds.