Stylus is a dynamic stylesheet preprocessor language that is compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Its design is influenced by Sass and Less. It is regarded as the fourth most used CSS preprocessor syntax. It was created by TJ Holowaychuk, a former programmer for Node.js and the creator of the Luna language. It is written in JADE and Node.js.
Selectors
Unlike CSS, which uses braces to open and close declaration blocks, indentation is used. Additionally, semi-colons (;) are optionally omitted. Hence, the following CSS: body { color: white; } can be shortened to: body color: white Further, colons (:) and commas (,) are also optional; that means the above can be written as, body color white
Variables
Stylus allows variables to be defined, however unlike Less and Sass, it doesn't use a symbol to define variables. Additionally, variable assignment is done automatically by separating the property and keyword(s). In this way, variables are similar to the variables in Python. message = 'Hello, World!'
div::before
content message
color #ffffff
The Stylus compiler would translate the above document to:
div::before {
content: 'Hello, World!'; color: #ffffff; }
Mixins and functions
Both mixins and functions are defined in the same manner, but they are applied in different ways.
For example, if you wanted to define the CSS border radius property without having to use various Vendor Prefixes you can create:
border-radius(n) -webkit-border-radius n -moz-border-radius n border-radius n
then, to include this as a mixin, you would reference it as:
div.rectangle
border-radius(10px)
this would compile to:
div.rectangle {
-webkit-border-radius: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; border-radius: 10px; }
Interpolation
To include variables in arguments and identifiers, brace characters surround the variable(s). For example, -webkit-{ 'border' + '-radius'} evaluates to -webkit-border-radius
References
External links
Stylus source code repository (Git) Source code comparison with Sass/SCSS and Less Online Stylus compiler