https://github.com/dotless/dotless

.NET Port of the ruby Less CSS lib
https://github.com/dotless/dotless

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.NET Port of the ruby Less CSS lib

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dotless/dotless
• Owner: dotless
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2010-02-12T23:33:29.000Z (almost 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-28T07:08:20.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-14T17:53:50.509Z (6 months ago)
• Language: C#
• Homepage: http://www.dotlesscss.org
• Size: 11.4 MB
• Stars: 693
• Watchers: 50
• Forks: 201
• Open Issues: 82
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md
  • License: license.txt

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README

          
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|NuGet package | Version information | Description

|- | - | -

|dotless.Core | [![NuGet](https://img.shields.io/nuget/v/dotless.Core.svg)](https://nuget.org/packages/dotless.Core/) | Less compiler

|dotless.AspNetHandler | [![NuGet](https://img.shields.io/nuget/v/dotless.AspNetHandler.svg)](https://nuget.org/packages/dotless.AspNetHandler/) | ASP.NET Handler to compile less files on the fly

|dotless | [![NuGet](https://img.shields.io/nuget/v/dotless.svg)](https://nuget.org/packages/dotless/) | Backward compatible package (containing Core and ASP.NET Handler). Please upgrade to either dotless.AspNetHandler or to dotless.Core if you don't need ASP.NET stuff

|dotless.CLI | [![NuGet](https://img.shields.io/nuget/v/dotless.CLI.svg)](https://nuget.org/packages/dotless.CLI/) | Command line interface (console application) to compile less files

.NET Framework version support

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Starting with version 1.6 following .NET Framworks are suported:

* .NET Framework 4.5.1

* .NET Framework 4.6.1

* .NET Framework 4.7

* .NET Standard 2.0 (.NET Core 2.0, Mono 5.4, .NET Framework 4.6.1+)

If your application/library don't run on any of these Frameworks you have to stick with version 1.5.3.

Just Want a .dll?

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If you don't care about the source and just want a .dll you can get a compiled release from [Github](https://github.com/dotless/dotless/downloads).

Simply select for the latest successful build and click on the "Artifacts" section, here you'll find the latest compiler exe and any dll's required.

Or use the Core [NuGet package](https://nuget.org/packages/dotless.Core/).

Whats this all about?

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This is a project to port the hugely useful Less libary to the .NET world. 

It give variables, nested rules and operators to CSS. 

For more information about the original Less project see [http://lesscss.org/](http://lesscss.org/).

For more information about how to get started with the .NET version see  [http://www.dotlesscss.org/](http://www.dotlesscss.org).

ASP.NET Core Handler

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If you want to have a handler for ASP.NET Core applications please check out [WebOptimizer.Dotless](https://github.com/twenzel/WebOptimizer.Dotless).