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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

Using the & operator to change the selector order


The & operator, described as the & parent reference in the Referencing parent selectors with the & sign and Using multiple & signs to refer to the parent selector more than once recipes of this chapter, can be used to change the selector order. Changing the selector order may help you compile different style rules for special pages or situations.

Getting ready

Read the Installing Sass for command line usage recipe of Chapter 1, Getting Started with Sass, to find out how to install Ruby Sass. You can use the Ruby Sass compiler to compile the Sass code in this recipe into CSS code.

How to do it...

Learn how to change the selector order with the & operator by performing the following steps:

  1. Create a Sass template called main.scss, which will contain an SCSS code like that shown here:

    // scss-lint:disable ColorKeyword
    $normal-color: red;
    $home-color: orange;
    
    .normal {
      color: $normal-color;
    
      .home & {
        color: $home...