How to apply the CSS of navbar-inverse in twitter-bootstrap

Question

By using twitter-bootstrap It will be possible to modify the look of the navbar by adding .navbar-inverse .

<div class="navbar navbar-inverse">
  ...
</div>

What I am trying to do is a simple js module to change the theme of the web site.
My script is just able to add a class to the body selector and then everything is made by the less file.

$('body').addClass('theme-dark');

By using js code it is quite easy to obtain the result.

$('.navbar').addClass('navbar-inverse');

But my question is different:
will it be possible just by adding the newTheme class to body selector to apply the navbar-inverse, changing the less file?
If yes how should I write the less rule?

I would like to make something like this:

.theme-dark {
    .navbar {
       // a function which makes
       // the style of navbar-inverse

Requirements:

I am using less for css, jquery and underscore.

Answer 1

LESS provides the ability to use previously defined classes as mixins in other contexts. Try this:

.theme-dark {
    .navbar {
        .navbar-inverse;
    }
}

Answer 2

.navbar div {padding：0.2em;}这解决了这个问题