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Introduction to the Sass and Compass Series
Sass is a very popular CSS preprocessor, which makes managing your CSS much easier, as well as providing a wealth of powerful tools to let you do more with your CSS. Compass is the de facto tool used...
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Sass vs. LESS
In this lesson we're going to do a quick comparison between the two most popular CSS preprocessors in use today, Sass ad LESS. We'll look at the similarities between these two, as well as the main...
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What is a CSS Preprocessor?
Sass is in a class of tools called CSS preprocessors. CSS preprocessors have been around for a while now, but they've really started to gain in popularity in the last several years. In this lesson...
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What is Compass?
Whenever people speak about Sass, they normally also mention Compass in the same breath. It isn't always clear what the difference between these tools are. Compass is a library that adds lots of new...
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Sass Terminology
In this lesson we're going to review a lot of the special terms that are used in Sass. Different categories of features you can use with Sass have their own names, and are used in specific ways in the...
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Install Sass
In order to get started with Sass, we're going to need to install it. There is really only one major prerequisite for using Sass, and that's that you will need to have Ruby installed. Ruby is a very...
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Install Scout
We've looked at how easy it is to set Sass and Compass up from the command line, but for folks who prefer a nice GUI application, there are a few options available. Scout is a free Sass/Compass...
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Install Compass
Now that we have Ruby and Sass ready to go and working, let's also get our handy dandy mixin library, Compass, installed as well. We'll be using the command line in this lesson, but it's super simple...
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Understand Sass Comments
Sass has a neat way of managing comments, where you can choose to either compile the comments, or not, from your scss. We're going to take a quick look at the two comment styles, and see how they...
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Nesting Selectors in Sass
Sass' nesting feature makes it easy to organize your CSS in a way that makes it clear which selectors are related and generally provides a cleaner, clearer stylesheet. In this lesson we'll look at...
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Sass @extend Directive
When working with your CSS you will often have instances where something should include all of the styling associated with a class, in addition to a few extras that are specific to just that item. In...
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Sass Mixins
A mixin is a term used for a feature of preprocesors which acts a lot like a super-variable. You can write up larger chunks of CSS and assign them to a mixin name, then when you "include" that mixin,...
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Sass Variables
One of the big advantages to using Sass is being able to reuse code. The simplest form of this is using variables. Variables in Sass work just like they do in other scripting languages. You simply...
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Sass Functions
Functions are another form super-variable, as it were, where you do a bunch of work that is assigned to something you can print out. But in this case you aren't injecting a bunch of CSS, instead you...
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A Look at Compass Mixins
In this lesson we take a look at compass mixins. We concentrate on a single mixin in the Typography category to show how a compass mixin can save lots of time and make your sass file much cleaner. We...
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Sass Partials and Import
Sass partials are a way to break out your Sass code into multiple files, and then import them to be compiled into one master CSS file. This feature helps you organize your Sass code the way that makes...
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Compass Configuration
When you install Compass from the command line, or with certain apps, it comes with a special file names "config.rb" which is where Compass stores the various ways you can configure it to work with...
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Compass Commands
When you install Compass, in addition to a large mixin and function library, you are also installing a command line application. The commands that Compass provides make it easy to do common tasks, very...
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Additional Sass and Compass Tools
In this lesson we take a tour of some other tools for working with Sass and Compass. We look at some sites with good information or helpful tools to use, and a few different apps that are made to make...
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Additional Sass Libraries
Sass is our base tool, and Compass is almost always used with Sass. Compass provides some great tools for us, but there are a few more resources out there that are worth knowing about and taking a look...
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