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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

Emitting rules at the root of the document


This recipe will explain how to use the @at-root directive to move nested styles out from within a parent selector. This enables you to write SCSS code that follows the visual nesting of your HTML code, as described in the Creating more intuitive code and making inheritance clear recipe of this chapter, but on the other hand, emits the rules at the root of the document in your compiled CSS code.

Getting ready

Use the Ruby Sass compiler to compile the SCSS code of this recipe into static CSS code. 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 move nested styles out from within a parent selector by using the @at-root directive:

  1. Create a Sass stylesheet called atroot.scss. This file should contain an SCSS code like that shown here:

    // scss-lint:disable ColorKeyword
    
    $form-text-color: black;
    $form-header-color: orange;
    
    form {
      color: $form...