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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

Applying operations in Sass


You can use SassScript to assign a value to a property or variable. SassScript enables you to apply standard arithmetic operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, and modulo) when assigning values. Other operations are available per data type. In this recipe, you will learn how to use operations in SassScript to assign values.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will use the command-line Sass compiler. Read the Installing Sass for command line usage recipe of Chapter 1, Getting Started with Sass, to find out how to install it. Operations with SassScript can easily be tested in the interactive mode of Ruby Sass. In the Using Sass interactive mode and SassScript recipe of Chapter 1, Getting Started with Sass, you can read how to use this interactive mode.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to find out how to apply operation on assigned values:

  1. Create a Sass template called operations.scss. This file should contain the SCSS code as follows:

     // scss...