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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

Utilizing the @extend directive


If the styling of an HTML element requires more than one class, you can use the @extend directive to merge these classes into a single class. In this recipe, you will learn how to use the @extend directive for your projects.

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 use the @extend directive to create a list of selectors that share the same properties:

  1. Create an HTML file that will contain the following HTML code used to style two buttons:

       <button class="button button-default">Default</button>
         <button class="button button-alert">Alert</button>
  2. Then, create your SCSS code to style the buttons from the first step. This SCSS code will look as follows:

    // scss-lint:disable ColorKeyword
    
    $default-color: red;
    $warning...