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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

Extending Sass with Compass helper functions


In Chapter 5, Built-in functions, you can read about useful functions already built in Sass. After installing Compass, you can also use helper functions provided by Compass in your code. This recipe demonstrates how to use some of these helper functions.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you will compile your SCSS code with Compass. First, read the Installing Compass recipe of Chapter 1, Getting Started with Sass, to find out how to install Compass. Also, read the Adding Compass to an existing Sass project and Maintaining your applications with Compass recipes of this chapter to learn more about using Compass for your project.

How to do it...

After installing Compass you can use it to compile your Sass code. Perform the following step to see Compass in action:

  1. Create a new Compass project by running the following command in your console:

     compass create
    
  2. Then, create a new sass/main.scss file that will contain the SCSS code like that shown here:

     div ...