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Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

By : Alex Libby
Book Image

Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

By: Alex Libby

Overview of this book

PostCSS is a tool that has quickly emerged as the future of existing preprocessors such as SASS and Less, mainly because of its power, speed, and ease of use. This comprehensive guide offers in-depth guidance on incorporating cutting-edge styles into your web page and at the same time maintaining the performance and maintainability of your code. The book will show how you can take advantage of PostCSS to simplify the entire process of stylesheet authoring. It covers various techniques to add dynamic and modern styling features to your web pages. As the book progresses, you will learn how to make CSS code more maintainable by taking advantage of the modular architecture of PostCSS. By the end of this book, you would have mastered the art of adding modern CSS effects to web pages by authoring high performing, maintainable stylesheets.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering PostCSS for Web Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Looping content with PostCSS


A question: how often have you come across instances where you have a number of very similar images that share styles, but at the same time need to have individual styles applied? Sound familiar?

I am of course talking about instances such as list items, grid layouts, and the classic social media icons we see littered all over the Internet. We can of course simply write rules to cover each image, but as I am sure you will agree, it's not the smartest approach! Instead, we can use the power of the @each statement to iterate through each item and apply each style using string interpolation.

The @each plugin, by Alexander Madyankin, is one of two ways to incorporate a facility to loop through content; the source for this plugin is available from https://github.com/outpunk/postcss-each. The other plugin, postcss-for (available from https://github.com/antyakushev/postcss-for), takes a different approach—the difference between the two is that the former works on objects...