Dynamically change color to lighter or darker by percentage CSS (Javascript)

Question

We have a big application on the site and we have a few links which are, let\'s say blue color like the blue links on this site. Now I want to make some other links, but wit

Answer 1

In LESS, you would use the following variables:

@primary-color: #999;
@primary-color-lighter: lighten(@primary-color, 20%);

This would take the 1st variable and lighten it by 20% (or any other percentage). In this example, you'd end up with your lighter color being: #ccc