On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Matevž Bradač <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 1. Mar, 2013, at 21:47, Olemis Lang wrote: > > > On 3/1/13, Gary Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] > >> > >> There are a lot of potential ways of doing this. I am not keen on > >> copying the CSS across if we want to be sticking to whatever bootstrap > >> provides. That leaves swapping tags, which itself can probably be done > >> in three or more ways, or copying the styles on the client side with js. > >> > > > > I was initially thinking of introducing (overriding) these in > > bloodhound.css rather than modifying bootstrap.css > > I think that's what Gary was referring to as well. But overriding things > in bloodhound.css quickly becomes quite cumbersome, as there is no way > to express "inheritance" of one tag's properties from another tag and > then overriding some of them (you have to copy and paste the whole style). > > However - bootstrap is built with LESS (http://lesscss.org/), which > extends > the CSS with variables etc. which would allow just that (via mixins). > Oh, very cool, thank you for sharing that. > Maybe we could adopt using LESS for building our custom bootstrap.css in > the future? > Do you mean, build bloodhound.css with LESS?
