In my Play 2.0 project I already have Bootstrap integrated (as the less files, Play can compile them in the fly) but now I found Boilerplate and I think it would be a nice idea to make use of it also.
After a bit of googling I found this:
http://www.quora.com/Is-Bootstrap-a-complement-OR-an-alternative-to-HTML5-Boilerplate-or-viceversa
So, looks like integration should be possible, and there are even 2 projects which try to do that. The only problem is that they do completely different things and I'm not sure which one is correct.
https://gist.github.com/1422879 in its current state seems to just ignore styles.css file coming from Boilerplate. It's renamed to h5bp.css, but I don't see h5bp.css included anywhere.
https://github.com/elgreg/html5-boilerstrap on the other hand uses both of them, just splitting styles.css file into two parts (h5bp_normalize.css and styles.css, bootstrap.css is included between them). But aren't there any conflicts between Boilerplate and Bootstrap this way?
So I'm a bit lost. What is the proper way of doing things in this case?
Just use Initializr, it's the semi-official solution and it has a huge set of options too. Bootstrap + H5BP is supported out of box!
http://www.initializr.com/
I've removed reset styles from twitter bootstrap(by removing less #import statement) and pasted it into html5-boilerplate(in user styles section). Worked fine.
Workless http://workless.ikreativ.com is another Bootstrap/H5BP combo.
the Gist https://gist.github.com/1422879 is H5BP + twitter bootstrap integration
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I'm trying to figure out whether it would pay off to use Bootstrap on my existing Wordpress site and while researching it, I came up with the idea that the template I'm using might actually already be using Bootstrap.
I can't see any signs of Bootstrap in my functions.php file or through the FTP, but the template is using classes like these: ".col-md-4", ".col-sm-4". Is that because it was created with Bootstrap or is it just a convention?
Sorry if this is complete nonsense.
That's a classic bootstrap class.
You shouldn't check the PHP files but the css ones or javascript.
It may be a sign.
You can check more bootstrap classes Like container, row, and ...
And for being sure you can check asset files like CSS and JS files, if you found bootstrap css and js files you may be sure of using bootstrap in your template.
You can open asset files it may wrote the bootstrap version in it even.
I'm new to Cakephp and I have been developing a website for my client. I'm not satisfied with the look of the website and I've been trying to figure out how to use Bootstrap with Cakephp. I have been introduced to Sass and it seems like this is a great way to write css. So I want to use Bootstrap-sass. But after seraching a lot I still cannot find a good tutorial on how to approach this matter. Most of the tutorials are for Ruby on Rails with Bootstrap even the official Bootstrap-sass Github page https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass
I would be gratful if someone could guide me through this or if this is not the way to go, which Bootstrap should I use If I want to have the sass functionality as well.
Also there is another doubt that I have:
Is it possible to overwrite Bootstrap css without using LESS or SASS?
That is more than one question.
SASS and CakePHP, easy. First of all, understand there are 2 SASS dialects. Original SASS tries to use the minimum of characters and is indent-sensitieve like Python. SASS 3 brought SCSS, which is more like CSS on steroids and easier to use. Then - outside of Ruby - you need a SASS compiler. SCOUT for SASS - Windows and Mac - is dead simple and does the job. You indicate your source SCSS folder, sits in webroot in my CakePHP, a target folder, the CakePHP CSS folder and a temp folder sitting in CakePHP/tmp for me. That is all it takes, save a SCSS file and Scout watches this and generates the CSS.
Bootstrap. Not easy to integrate in CakePHP templates. Additionally it uses some questionable JavaScript. Take a look at Compass, the same thing integrated in Scout.
If you want Bootstrap for a responsive grid, use SimpleGrid instead. As the name says simple and CSS only. Drupal is based on it.
Remember SCSS is a CSS superset; copy your CSS to your SCSS folder and start adding to it.
Good luck, André Hartman, Belgium.
How can I add further col-* classes.
I want to add col-xl-* but it's very time consuming adding every class manually.
If i use http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ I just can edit the lg but i will loose a screen width so I want to add another one. Is there a easy way to do that?
Regards
The "easiest" way to do it is use the .LESS source files. Besides that no.
The files you should look at are: grid.less, variables.less and mixins.less. I wouldn't edit those actual files though, because of updates to Bootstrap. I would start your own custom.less file and then #import that into the bootstrap.less file. That way it will generate your CSS with the rest of the bootstrap CSS.
This article on SmashingMagazine is an excellent example and where I got the idea from: Customizing Bootstrap
For some reason though, the article is currently not there or broken. I reported this to them, so hopefully it comes back soon.
As stated by Rob Dodson, style tags are now unavoidable with Web Components. I am trying to find a way to use LESS with this new tecnhology without having to paste the compiled CSS in my HTML document everytime I change something in the LESS file . Is there anyway to achieve that?
I am using Polymer.
Thanks!
Laurent
You can make the client compile the LESS to CSS , you should definitely take a look at this :
http://lesscss.org/#client-side-usage
It is advised to compile it yourself to css in a production environment though !
Doing this client-side hardly seems like the corrent solution, especially at scale. For instance, do you really want 1000 web components in your app all including LessCSS and compiling on the client side?
Just compile server-side and include the compiled version in your html import. Apps like DocPad, make this a lot easier. For instance:
src/documents/components/my-component/my-component.css.less is your source file, and is compiled to out/components/my-component/my-component.css, which is accessible at /compoennt/my-component/my-component.css.
We use this workflow to also make use of javascript pre-processors like coffeescript, as well as post-processors like css auto prefixer, and bundlers like Browserify. See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23050527/130638 for more info.
Simply compile your less and embed the generated CSS file via good old link tag.
I don't think that rob wanted to say that using style tags is the only way to go. You can still link to external stylesheets as you always did.
Why don´t you compile on server side using php compiler? Have a look here - http://leafo.net/lessphp/ -
To let you know, i´m using this compiler on my projects, on the server side without any kind of problems!!!!!!! :) IMO, it´s better to have the compilation work on the server side. I´m not totally 100% sure, but i think IE8 don´t recognize text/less
The way I have done this before is have individual .less or .scss file for each component and have it compile into the individual .css file which is then called into the respective component file. and finally vulcanize everything into a single file.
Incase you want to use a single CSS file, then use //deep// combinator or ::shadow pseudo elements in the CSS.
If you able to create the custom elements without using ShadowDOM then you can simply have all your less merge into a single CSS.
Honestly speaking I was unable to create a wc without shadowDOM in polymer. There is a long conversation on github on enabling / disabling and hacking a way to create a wc without shadowDOM here https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/issues/222
One solution would be to have the preprocessor translate .less files into .css and then linking them inside Polymer components, like explained in the official documentation: https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/devguide/styling#external-stylesheets
Unfortunately this is deprecated. So the other way to go could be to have another step that wraps the preprocessor-generated css files with a dom-module: this way you can follow the Polymer way including the style module inside your components, or using the css file compiled from less if you do things outside Polymer components.
I'm using Gulp for my build process and I found this module very useful:
https://github.com/MaKleSoft/gulp-style-modules
It creates, for every .less file I have in my sources, an .html file with a dom-module wrapped around it, ready to be included in the components' styles.
I am trying to use LESS CSS to write my CSS. I have imported the style.less and less.js file in that order.
Now i wanna extract the CSS that LESS generates.. is there any way i can do that ? i dont want to use the script to generate it dynamically in production. just for development.
You can extract the CSS using the Firebug extension in Firefox. The compiled CSS appears under the menu choice "inline" in the CSS tab.
http://incident57.com/less/ if you're fortunate enough to use OS X, and there's a ruby gem too http://rubygems.org/gems/less although this has been superseded by the node.js implementation installed through npm. Check http://lesscss.org/ for more information.
There's also http://www.dotlesscss.org/ for windows, but not sure how useful it is.
And in 2013 we have:
http://less2css.org/
Seems to work just fine for me. Just copy/paste.
Chances are you'll want to minify your CSS after this, so:
http://cssminifier.com/
For others who'd stumble here, in modern browser you can see it in the LocalStorage. I use Chrome and it's in the dev toolbar under Resources.
In my case we also want to save the css file automatically (we have a tool that generates a template), we can do it easily with javascript.
This returns the generated CSS, just replace it with the right path, as you see it under the Resources tab:
localStorage.getItem('http://domain.com/css/main.less');
Then we send that through Ajax to save it in a css file. When switching to production we remove the less and replace it by the generated css file.