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Asked: 2026-05-28T22:08:27+00:00

The scenario: I’m developing with Less CSS on a Cake App, and I want

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The scenario:
I’m developing with Less CSS on a Cake App, and I want to compile the less files client-side as they recommend in the documentation (I’m also on a git repo with several other programmers, so I want them to be editing the less files instead of the css…which gets overwritten when I recompile):

  <head> 
    . . .
    <link rel="stylesheet/less" type="text/css" href="styles.less">
    <script src="less.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    . . .
  </head>

The problem:
I’m storing the less files in webroot/css/lib, and the less.js file in webroot/js/vendors and I want to use the HTML helper to build the link/script tags:

<?php echo $this -> Html -> css('lib/style.less'); ?>
<?php echo $this -> Html -> script('vendors/less-1.2.1.min.js');?>

There’s no problem loading the less.js. The issue lies in that with the css helper, Cake appends ‘.css’ to the end of the path.

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  1. Editorial Team

    the html helper will check if there’s a “?” in the filename.. if there isn’t, it adds “.css” at the end:

    cake/libs/view/helpers/html.php (ln. 356)

    if (strpos($path, '?') === false) {
    if (substr($path, -4) !== '.css') {
    $path .= '.css';
    }
}

    maybe you can trick the helper with something like this:

    <?php echo $this -> Html -> css('lib/style.less?'); ?>

    but I’m not sure if it will work… you might have to write the tag manually =P

    Cheers

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