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body {
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
a.button {
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
}
body {
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
a.button {
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
}
What if we could omit braces?
body
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
a.button
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
body
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
a.button
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
How about semi-colons?
body
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
a.button
-webkit-border-radius: 5px
-moz-border-radius: 5px
border-radius: 5px
body
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
a.button
-webkit-border-radius: 5px
-moz-border-radius: 5px
border-radius: 5px
Keep things DRY
border-radius()
-webkit-border-radius: arguments
-moz-border-radius: arguments
border-radius: arguments
body
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
a.button
border-radius(5px)
border-radius()
-webkit-border-radius: arguments
-moz-border-radius: arguments
border-radius: arguments
body
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
a.button
border-radius(5px)
How about transparent mixins?
border-radius()
-webkit-border-radius: arguments
-moz-border-radius: arguments
border-radius: arguments
body
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
a.button
border-radius: 5px
border-radius()
-webkit-border-radius: arguments
-moz-border-radius: arguments
border-radius: arguments
body
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
a.button
border-radius: 5px
Create & Share
@import 'vendor'
body
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
a.button
border-radius: 5px
@import 'vendor'
body
font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
a.button
border-radius: 5px
Even in-language functions!
sum(nums...)
sum = 0
sum = n for n in nums
sum(1 2 3 4)
// => 10
sum(nums...)
sum = 0
sum = n for n in nums
sum(1 2 3 4)
// => 10
What if it were all optional?
fonts = Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
body {
padding: 50px;
font: 14px/1.4 fonts;
}
fonts = Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
body {
padding: 50px;
font: 14px/1.4 fonts;
}
Get styling with Stylus
Installing Stylus is very easy once you have Node.js. So get the binaries for your platform and make sure that they also include npm, Node's package manager.
Now, type in your terminal:
$ npm install stylus -g
$ npm install stylus -g
If you want an expressive css language for nodejs with these features or the features listed below, head over to GitHub for more information.
Features
- Optional colons
- Optional semi-colons
- Optional commas
- Optional braces
- Variables
- Interpolation
- Mixins
- Arithmetic
- Type coercion
- Dynamic importing
- Conditionals
- Iteration
- Nested selectors
- Parent referencing
- Variable function calls
- Lexical scoping
- Built-in functions (over 60)
- In-language functions
- Optional compression
- Optional image inlining
- Stylus executable
- Robust error reporting
- Single-line and multi-line comments
- CSS literal for those tricky times
- Character escaping
- TextMate bundle
- and more!