Understanding Exponent CSS Stylesheets

Dynamic Stylesheet Loading

Exponent will dynamically load stylesheets in to your theme, and get them ready to minify. ...

Minification

After gathering up your specified stylesheets, exponent can dynamically compress and cache all your CSS in to one small "minified" file. ...

Integrating Styles in the Editor

By creating an additional stylesheet with your basic styles, they will be available and used within the WYSIWYG editor. ...

LESS Dynamic Stylesheets

LESS is a dynamic stylesheet language which extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions.  This functionality makes it much easier to create flexible stylesheets since redundant styles and style variations can be handled by the compiler/server instead of the designer.  Exponent uses 'lessphp' to pre-process or compile .less files into .css files which are used by the browser.  Web pages can ONLY use .css file, NOT uncompiled .less files. ...