Question

I’m generating a .less file via django’s templating. I’m essentially doing this the same way I would with html pages using a base less file…

@import: "somefile.less";

// The bg image
body {background-image: url('{% block image %}{% endblock %}');}

and another less file to extend it

{% extends "baseless/normal.less" %}

{% block image %}trees.jpg{% endblock %}

This is actually working fine, except that Django is removing lines from the output. this basically breaks the less file as I have a lot of //comments requiring line breaks.

@import: "somefile.less";// The bg image body {background-image: url('{trees.jpg');}

Is there a way to prevent it from doing this?

Answer 1

• If you render this in a shell, it remove lines? If yes, are you using spaceless tag?
• When you render it in browser and it does not remove in shell, are you using a middleware which tries to remove blank lines or something like that?

By the way, use django-compressor to compile less files.