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Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook

By : Bass Jobsen, Stuart Robson
Book Image

Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook

By: Bass Jobsen, Stuart Robson

Overview of this book

Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook helps you to get most out of CSS3 and harness its benefits to create engaging and receptive applications. This book will help you develop faster and reduce the maintenance time for your web development projects by using Sass and Compass. You will learn how to use with CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation and understand how to use other libraries of pre-built mixins. You will also learn setting up a development environment with Gulp. This book guides you through all the concepts and gives you practical examples for full understanding.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Interpolation of variables


Variable interpolation means the ability to build a string by using the values assigned to variables. In Sass, you can use variable interpolation to dynamically create property and selectors' names. In this recipe, you will learn how to apply variable interpolation in your code.

Getting ready

You can test variable interpolation in Sass with the Ruby Sass compiler. The Installing Sass for command line usage recipe of Chapter 1, Getting Started with Sass, describes how to install Ruby Sass on your system.

How to do it...

Perform the steps beneath to learn how to use variable interpolation in Sass to dynamically create property and selector names:

  1. Write down the Sass code as follows in a Sass template called interpolation.scss:

    $name: class; 
    $direction: left; 
    $units: px; 
    
    .#{$name} { 
      margin-#{$direction}: 20#{$units}; 
    }
  2. Compile the Sass template from the previous step with Ruby Sass by running the following command in your console:

     sass interpolation.scss
    
  3. The compiled...