Bu dökümanda, size referans olabilecek Sass/Less karşılaştırması yapılacaktır. Dökümanın orjinali ingilizcedir ve ... adresinden ulaşılabilir.
Sass | Less
-----------------+-----------------
$color: red; | @color: red;
div { | div {
color: $color; | color: @color;
} | }
Her iki dil de seçicilerin içerikleri de dahil olmak üzere kapsamlı değişken tanımlamayı destekler. Ancak bazı durumlarda farklılıkları vardır:
Sass | Less
-------------------------+-----------------
$color: black; | @color: black;
.scoped { | .scoped {
$bg: blue; | @bg: blue;
$color: white; | @color: white;
color: $color; | color: @color;
background-color: $bg; | background-color: @bg;
} | }
.unscoped { | .unscoped {
color: $color; | color: @color;
// Would be an error | // Would be an error
// background: $bg; | // background: @bg;
} | }
Aynı kodlar farklı sonuçlar doğuruyor:
Sass Output | Less Output
----------------------------+----------------------------
.scoped { | .scoped {
color: white; | color: white;
background-color: blue; | background-color: blue;
} | }
.unscoped { color: white; } | .unscoped { color: black; }
Görüldüğü gibi, Less, seçicilerin içerisinde tanımlanan değişkenleri sadece orada kullanır. Sass ise nerede yazıldığı gözetmeksizin değişkenlerin üzerine yazar.
Sass ve Less, & işareti ile, seçicileri bir üst seçiciye bağlar.
Sass | Less
-------------------+-----------------
p { | p {
a { | a {
color: red; | color: red;
&:hover { | &:hover {
color: blue; | color: blue;
} | }
} | }
} | }
Sass | Less
----------------------------------+----------------------------------
@mixin bordered { | .bordered {
border-top: dotted 1px black; | border-top: dotted 1px black;
border-bottom: solid 2px black; | border-bottom: solid 2px black;
} | }
|
#menu a { | #menu a {
@include bordered; | .bordered;
} | }
Sass | Less
----------------------------------+----------------------------------
@mixin bordered($width: 2px) { | .bordered(@width: 2px) {
border: $width solid black; | border: @width solid black;
} | }
|
#menu a { | #menu a {
@include bordered(4px); | .bordered(4px);
} | }
Less, kalıtım yöntemini desteklemez. Sass kullanarak bir seçiciyi bir başka seçiciden çoğaltabilirsiniz.
Sass | Less | CSS Output
----------------------------+-------+---------------------------
.bordered { | N/A | .bordered, #menu a {
border: 1px solid back; | | border: 1px solid back; }
} | |
| |
#menu a { | |
@extend .bordered; | |
} | |
Both less and sass provide color math. It was a bad idea in Sass, I'm not sure why less chose to copy it. There's no point in comparing them.
Sass provides a full array of tools for manipulating colors. All color representations (named colors, hex, rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla) are understood as colors and colors can be manipulated.
Sass exposes a long list of color functions not found in CSS:
Accessors:
red($color)green($color)blue($color)hue($color)saturation($color)lightness($color)alpha($color)
Mutators:
lighten($color, $amount)darken($color, $amount)saturate($color, $amount)desaturate($color, $amount)adjust-hue($color, $amount)opacify($color, $amount)transparentize($color, $amount)mix($color1, $color2[, $amount])grayscale($color)compliment($color)
Note: Less.js provides a number of similar color functions.
Both Sass and Less support numbers and basic arithmetic. However they differ significantly with respect to how they handle units.
Sass supports unit-based arithmetic, just like you learned in school. Complex units are supported in any intermediate form and will only raise an error if you try to print out the value of a complex unit.
Additionally, Sass has conversion tables so that any comparable units can be combined.
Sass will let you define your own units and will happily print out unknown units into your css. Less will not. Sass does this as a form of future proofing against changes in the w3c specification or in case a browser introduces a non-standard unit.
Sass:
1cm * 1em => 1 cm * em
2in * 3in => 6 in * in
(1cm / 1em) * 4em => 4cm
2in + 3cm + 2pc => 3.514in
3in / 2in => 1.5
Less:
1cm * 1em => Error
2in * 3in => 6in
(1cm / 1em) * 4em => Error
2in + 3cm + 2pc => Error
3in / 2in => 1.5in
Less does not provide any conditionals or looping structures. Instead, it provides mixin guards and pattern-matching which can be used to similar effect.
Sass and Less provides provide boolean types true and false, the and, or, and not operators as well as <, >, <=, >=, == operators. There are minor syntax differences between the two (Sass syntax shown here).
Some sass examples:
@if lightness($color) > 30% {
background-color: black;
}
@else {
background-color: white;
}
Looping:
@for $i from 1px to 10px {
.border-#{i} {
border: $i solid blue;
}
}
A similar example in Less, using mixins:
.mixin (@color) when (lightness(@color) > 30%) {
background-color: black;
}
.mixin (@color) when (lightness(@color) =< 30%) {
background-color: white;
}
Less supports looping via recursion, but not (yet) selector interpolation as shown in the Sass example, so it is of limited use.
Both sass and less will import other sass and less files.
Less has three output formats: normal, compressed & yui-compressed. Sass has four: nested, compact, compressed, expanded.
Sass output compression currently beats the google pagespeed css plugin output by a few percent.
Less and Sass both support C-style (/* */) and C++ Style comments (//).
Less provides a feature that Sass does not:
#bundle () {
.red { background-color: red }
.green { background-color: green }
}
.foo {
#bundle > .red;
}
Generates:
.foo {
background-color: red;
}
The sass team considered this feature and decided that adding it would create fragility and unexpected interconnectedness.