Namespacing in Less
There is one thing I am sure you will find asking yourself as time goes by and your CSS style sheets get larger: can I group similar styles to make things easier to find?
Sure, you can always cut and paste similar styles together, but this is a manual process, right? What happens if two weeks down the line, you need to add a new style, which is similar to the one buried 1500-odd lines down? Surely there has to be a better way to do this—there is. Welcome to namespacing in Less!
Namespacing in Less takes your need to group similar styles and flips it on its head; it groups all of the constituent building blocks of your styles together, then allows you to pick and choose which styles to use when adding styling for a new element ...
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