I want to be able to access classes further up the dom tree from within a nested class using LESS CSS, see example:
HTML:
<html class="svg">
<body>
<div class="content">
<div class="container">
<div class="logo"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
LESS:
.container {
.logo {
background:url(/images/ws-logo.gif);
}
}
I want to target the .svg class on the html tag from within the .logo nested rule, to keep things tidy instead of writing another rule like this:
.svg {
.container {
.logo {
background:url(/images/logo.svg);
}
}
}
So, ideally something like this:
.container {
.logo {
background:url(/images/logo.gif);
(some-symbol).svg {
background:url(/images/svg-logo.svg);
}
}
}
I'm using modernizr to detect svg support.
Anyone know if this is possible? Or have any recommendations?
This is not possible because you can't "step back" in the path to add another class to a parent. Instead, just write another rule:
It's not much of a deal, is it?
For the sake of completeness: You can reference to the actual element via the
&
-symbol. THis makes sense if you want to target pseudo-classes/elements or additional classes of the current element:Yes! (an update)
When I tested this here, it worked!