Loops are one of those features that you don’t need every day. But when you do, it’s awfully nice that preprocessors can do it because native HTML and CSS cannot.
Sass (SCSS)
for Loop
while Loop
each Loop
Less
for Loop
while Loop
(That’s what the above is. The when clause could be thought of exactly as while.)
each Loop
Stylus
for Loop
while Loop
Only for loops in Stylus.
each Loop
The for loop actually behaves more like an each loop, so here’s a more obvious each loop example:
I never understood the meaning of preprocessors. As long as you have PHP available, why using something else. With DynCSS – CSS per PHP you can just use CSS within PHP, use variables, loops, if-else, cases, etc.
http://www.cms-hamburg.de/?content=2020_10_20_1001
(it’s Germany, but if you download the files (ZIP) you can see how easy it it. No compiling, now other script language to learn. Just pure PHP, easy and readable CSS as minified output.
CSS-in-PHP. That’s just what we needed…