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".less" files in design mode

Jul 11, 2011 2:15 AM

Is there any trick that would allow to either edit or at least see the page formatted with ".less" css file in Dreamweaver Design mode or Live View ? The only way I discovered to see the resulting page correctly is to see it directly in a browser. If it's not possible in Dreamweaver then it would pose the "Design" mode usability under question for designers using ".less" css technology.

 

Or perhaps DW has its own css engine instead of using ".less" (to enable css variables, mixins etc) - but I doubt it.

792 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: c5cloudmobile, Feb 3, 2012 6:43 AM
 
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  • John Waller
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    1. John Waller,
    Jul 11, 2011 4:18 AM   in reply to Sible99
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    I take it you're referring to LESS, the dynamic stylesheet pre-processor language. http://lesscss.org/

     

    Does Live View in Dreamweaver not work for you?

     
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  • Sible99
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    2. Sible99,
    Jul 11, 2011 5:19 AM   in reply to John Waller
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    That's what I hoped for, but Live View does not show the LESS styles. Only preview in browser works. Maybe there is some settings necessary (I load LESS javascript to preprocess, maybe the javascript is restricted in Live View..)

     
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  • MurraySummers
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    3. MurraySummers,
    Jul 11, 2011 5:41 AM   in reply to Sible99
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    Are the files named with a normal file extension?

     
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    4. Sible99,
    Jul 11, 2011 6:31 AM   in reply to MurraySummers
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    I have extension ".less" in this case

     

    1) There is a file style.less in the assets folder.

    2) I changed the MMDocumentTypes.xml to treat .less as .css to have code coloring etc

    3) I have <link href="style.less" rel="stylesheet/less" type="text/css" /> in head section

     

    Actually, it works like a charm when viewed in Firefox. But in IE the .less file is ignored, and in DW Live View it's ignored (means that all styles in .less file are ignored, both LESS specific and pure css)

     
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  • c5cloudmobile
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    5. c5cloudmobile,
    Feb 3, 2012 6:43 AM   in reply to Sible99
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    Hi

     

    Did you ever find the problem causing this as i have the same experience. I know there is a current problem viewing .less using Chrome when the address is a local "file://... " . 

     
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