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Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4

By : Andrew D. Patterson
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Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4

By: Andrew D. Patterson

Overview of this book

<p>Every web designer needs a toolkit. From text editors to graphics programs, from table structures to fluid style sheets, the web designer has many tools and techniques to choose from. Zurb's Foundation framework is an excellent kit for today's web designer. It's fluid, it's easy to work with, it has plenty of components, and most importantly, you can apply your creativity to make your very own designs.<br /><br />Zurb's Foundation 4 is a practical, easy-to-use toolkit for the layout and construction of web pages. Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4 introduces Zurb Foundation’s powerful web design and development toolkit. Learn how to create professional layouts with ease, add powerful CSS and JavaScript components to your pages, and then customize and configure the design to your satisfaction. Understand how to efficiently manage your CSS and layout your pages with SASS, the style sheet language. This book will help you put Foundation 4 to work for you today!<br /><br />This book documents Foundation's grid system, all its components and plugins, and its generation of custom style sheets. The book serves as an all-encompassing introduction as well as a future reference guide. The foundation of Foundation is its grid system...and there is a whole lot more.<br /><br />Once you've covered the basics, you'll be ready to advance with SASS, the style sheet language, to customize your installation and layout your pages.<br /><br />With this book, you will discover all the CSS components and JavaScript plugins that are included in Foundation at the present time and learn how to integrate each of them into your web pages.</p>
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Chapter 4. Advance with SASS

Up to this point in this book, we've assumed you were using a regular or custom download of Foundation from Zurb's website. We showed how to exploit the grid system and how to configure and customize each of Foundation's CSS components and JavaScript plugins. Now we'll help you advance with Foundation's SASS. After a brief look at what SASS is about, we'll show how to install Foundation with SASS.

When you download Foundation from the website, you could select the components to include. We'll show you how to do that after you have installed Foundation with SASS. Then we'll show how to customize your CSS with SASS variables, how to work with SASS functions and mixins, and how to extend classes using SASS. Each of these allows you greater flexibility and control of your style sheets.

In the last section of this chapter, we'll introduce you to designing with SASS. That's where you can take your HTML markup and quickly apply Foundation's grid mixins to style it into...