We have been using Twitter Bootstrap CSS and Javascript library for some projects and it requires the use of LESS. For those of you not familiar with LESS, LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. When you run LESS on the server-side it will integrate nicely with Symfony2 thanks [...]
Tag: css
March 16 / 2012
Simplifying CSS sprites with the sgLESSPlugin
Using CSS sprites is a great way to speed up your web pages and web applications. The concept is simple: bundle up all your icons into one image and use the background-position property to display the correct icon. By doing this you avoid having to download multiple image files and minimize your HTTP requests. Using [...]
December 03 / 2009
Tips for configuring CSS in symfony
Previously in this blog we talked about LESS and how it can help working with extended features in CSS. But some basic things with configuring CSS in symfony are commonly unknown. Expanded notation Stylesheets can be defined using Yaml format in view.yml. The Definitive guide to Symfony explains how to include external stylesheets in your [...]
September 09 / 2009
CSS symfony plugin with LESS
OK, so we were about to reinvent the wheel when Antoine Abt suggested we take a look at lessphp, a very cool project by Leaf Corcoran starting to port LESS into PHP. We bit the bait and it paid off. Leaf was super-cool about us including the lib into the symfony plugin and we released [...]
July 30 / 2009
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