How to get color values by class in Less?

Question

Example I have exist class like

.color-white {
   color : #fff;
   //background: #fff; <-- or getting by background
}

It could be located in third-party .css file.

And in Less how to get color #fff ?

Somthing like

.hello {
   color : getColorByClass(.color-white);
}

or

@white : getColorByClass(.color-white);

Is it possible?

Use variables? - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11198221/defining-variable-variables-using-less-css — StudioTime, Mar 16 '17 at 08:07
hm ?, Did you mean `@white : #fff;` ? If yes , i already know @DarrenSweeney — l2aelba, Mar 16 '17 at 08:10
I guess it depends what else is in the class - you could always use `.hello { &:extend(.color-white); }` — StudioTime, Mar 16 '17 at 08:31

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 01 '17 at 11:42

So to not leave this unanswered. The answer is "No, it's impossible".

Simply because the primary purpose of Less is to help to write a new and not to hack an existing CSS code.

Technically, there're some features planned that will make this possible (more like a side-effect rather than a primarily aim again). But yet again, w/o knowing what your actual goal was and what kind of problem you tried to solve, it's difficult to say if such feature would be a proper way to solve it (suspecting an XY-Problem as always).

How to get color values by class in Less?

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