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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

Creating more intuitive code and making inheritance clear


While HTML code already has a nested structure of HTML elements, CSS code has no nesting. Sass extends CSS with nesting, which enables you to create selectors that follow the same nested structure as your HTML.

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.

How to do it...

Learn how to make your code more intuitive by performing the steps shown beneath:

  1. Create a Sass template called main.scss that will contain the following SCSS code:

    // scss-lint:disable ColorKeyword
    
    $link-color: black;
    
    p {
      font-size: 1em;
      a {
        color: $link-color;
      }
    }
  2. Compile the main.scss file from the previous step into CSS code by running the following command in your console:

    sass main.scss
    
  3. You will find that the CSS code outputted to your console will look like that shown here:

    p {
      font-size: 1em; }
      p a {
        color: black; }

How it works...

Web browsers...