Less.js Math min() Function

Last Updated : 07 Nov, 2022

Less.js is a simple CSS pre-processor that facilitates the creation of manageable, customizable, and reusable style sheets for websites. Because CSS is a dynamic style sheet language, it was chosen. Because LESS is adaptable, it works with a wide range of browsers. Only CSS that has been written and processed using the CSS pre-processor, a computer language, can be used by web browsers. In addition to providing capabilities like variables, functions, mixins, and operations to help create dynamic CSS while maintaining backward compatibility, it is a CSS language extension.

In this article, we are going to discuss the Math min() function, which is used to find the minimum value from a list values. This function takes a list of numbers or values as a parameter and finds the minimum of the values and returns that value.

Syntax:

min(values)

Parameters:

values: This is the only compulsory parameter for this function. This parameter takes a list of values.

Return type: This method returns the type of value whatever is there inside the list of values.

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Example 1: The code below demonstrates the usage and implementation of the Math min() function.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" 
        type="text/css" href="style.css"/> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1 style="color:green;"> 
          GeeksforGeeks 
      </h1>   
      
      <h3>Less.js Math min() Function</h3> 
    
    <div class="c1">   
        <p class="p1"> 
            <strong> 
                width: min(500px, 600px, 630px,  
                  750px, 680px, 720px, 600px) 
                <br> height: min(200px, 300px,  
                  330px, 450px, 380px, 420px, 500px) 
            </strong> 
        </p> 
    </div> 
</body> 
  
</html>

styles.less:

CSS

@body-bg-color: #eeeeee; 
@dark: hsl(25, 71%, 8%); 
@light: rgb(253, 255, 146); 
@val: min(500px, 600px, 630px, 750px, 680px, 720px, 600px); 
@dval: min(200px, 300px, 330px, 450px, 380px, 420px, 500px); 
body { 
    background-color: @body-bg-color; 
} 
.c1 { 
    width: @val; 
    height: @dval; 
    margin: 1rem; 
    background-color: @dark; 
} 
.p1 { 
    padding: 60px 0px 0px 30px; 
    color: @light; 
}

Now, to compile the above LESS code to CSS code, run the following command:

lessc style.less style.css

style.css: The CSS output of the above Less file was compiled.

CSS

body { 
      background-color: #eeeeee; 
} 
.c1 { 
    width: 500px; 
    height: 200px; 
    margin: 1rem; 
    background-color: hsl(25, 71%, 8%); 
} 
.p1 { 
    padding: 60px 0px 0px 30px; 
    color: #fdff92; 
}

Output:

Example 2: The code below demonstrates the usage and implementation of the Math min() function along with ispixel type function if() and boolean logical functions.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" 
        type="text/css" href="style.css"/> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1 style="color:green;"> 
          GeeksforGeeks 
      </h1>   
      
      <h3>Less.js Math min() Function</h3> 
    
    <div class="c1">   
        <p class="p1"> 
            <strong> 
                boolean(ispixel <br> 
                (minimum value)) 
                <br> TRUE 
            </strong> 
        </p> 
    </div> 
</body> 
  
</html>

styles.less:

CSS

@body-bg-color: #eeeeee; 
@dark: hsl(25, 71%, 8%); 
@light: rgb(253, 255, 146); 
@val: min(200px, 300px, 330px, 450px, 380px, 420px, 500px); 
@dval: min(200px, 300px, 330px, 450px, 380px, 420px, 500px) * 2; 
@cond: boolean(ispixel(@val)); 
body { 
    background-color: @body-bg-color; 
} 
.c1 { 
    width: @dval; 
    height: @val; 
    margin: 1rem; 
    background-color: if(@cond, @light, @dark); 
} 
.p1 { 
    padding: 60px 0px 0px 100px; 
    color: if(@cond, @dark, @light); 
}

Now, to compile the above LESS code to CSS code, run the following command:

lessc style.less style.css

style.css: The CSS output of the above Less file was compiled.

CSS

body { 
      background-color: #eeeeee; 
} 
.c1 { 
    width: 400px; 
    height: 200px; 
    margin: 1rem; 
    background-color: #fdff92; 
} 
.p1 { 
    padding: 60px 0px 0px 100px; 
    color: hsl(25, 71%, 8%); 
}