A person directly edited the css output file. Am I in trouble here? He made edits all throughout the file and if I'm understanding correctly, my changes will overwrite his when I recompile. Is there anyway to keep everything but still work in my scss files? Could I take the entire css file and try the reverse css to scss path to get everything together?
One option would be to save the edited CSS file and then compare it to your compiled CSS file, allowing you to determine what the changes are and add them to your Sass file.
Save the edited CSS file as FileA.css.
Recompile your Sass file into FileB.css
Load files FileA.css and FileB.css into a diff viewer, something like DiffChecker or a desktop app like Kaleidoscope.
Determine the changes and add the appropriate Sass to your original .sass file.
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There is currently SASS files in place (mixins, partials, variables etc) however, although these are still in place, a lot of CSS code was manually added to the final compiled CSS file which means the SASS files are not updated and if they were compiled, the manual CSS that was added would be overwritten.
How can I add the manual CSS that was added to the compiled CSS so that it is included as part of my SASS and prevent any overwrites?
I ended up adding the normal css file part of my SASS so it compiled as one file than to overwrite it. I then setup my own SASS structure which new code will go in to.
I was given some files from another developer and was told to make some changes. Within the file structure, there's a .css file and a .css.map file.
I'm relatively new to SASS, but my understanding is that you create a .scss file and use command line: sass --watch style.scss:style.css, which generates the .css.map file and compiles the sass into css.
Is there a way to work backwards with just the .css file and the .css.map file to generate the .scss files, or did the other dev just maybe forget to give me these files?
The CSS is the output of Sass and you cannot generate the original Sass files from the CSS.
As stated by thesassway, source maps (.css.map) seek to bridge the gap between higher-level languages like CoffeeScript and Sass and the lower-level languages they compile down to (JavaScript and CSS). Source maps allow you to see the original source (the CoffeeScript or Sass) instead of the compiled JavaScript or CSS while debugging.
(TL;DR, they are for debugging)
If you were to edit the CSS output files without using SASS to compile them, the next person who writes in the Sass files and compiles them will overwrite your work.
I'm not sure why the other dev will want you to make changes directly to the CSS output files, but asking them for guidance on what that are expecting you to do won't hurt anyone. :)
Yes you can. Using Chrome, inspect something on the page, go to "Sources" tab, go to "Page" tab, expand down to the SCSS files generated from the CSS Map (basically the original SCSS files).
Example below is using WordPress and I was in your situation where all I had was the CSS Map file. Just copy and/or save the files one by one into the appropriate folder. Now you have the SCSS files :)
Forgive me if this is naive, but I am used to using just CSS. Sass seems pretty cool and I'm down to learn it, but for some reason many of the Javascript or jQuery plugins I'm downloading have both a CSS and SCSS file associated with the stylesheet. I don't want to have to be editing two files to get results on the page, why would both be there when they seem like copies except for a few key areas? See image below, seems like there is an extra CSS file per SCSS. Is that because some browsers cannot compile the SCSS?
CSS and SCSS in same directory
Is that because some browsers cannot compile the SCSS?
Yes. There is a command line utility which converts the .scss to .css. Probably the .map file is a reverse-conversion aid for browser inspectors that understand it.
Whenever I have generated files (like a .min.js, or in your case .css that came from a .scss), I make sure the appropriate command-line conversion tool is executed automatically as part of my build script.
I'm not sure what kind of build system you are using, but there is some command line tool for conversion that will need to be executed.
You are not expected to manually update both formats. SCSS to CSS command-line converters existed long before any browser (is there one yet?) started to support SCSS.
No browser (at least major) is able to directly use SASS (or LESS). You always need to compile scss files to css, before you could use them.
You can compile css by build tools like grunt or gulp. You can even configure it to watch updates in scss files and recompile css if anything was changed.
You could have following types of files after build:
style.scss <- this is source file
style.css <- this is css file created from SASS file
style.min.css <- this is css file minified
style.css.map <- this is source map of scss file
Here you can read why css files are minified. Here you can read what are source maps for.
please excuse my inexperience with, and lack of understanding of, Sass.
Basically I was assigned to do some edits on a site which has a main css page and a few scss subpages, all organized through an ftp directory.
I'm just confused how the index knows where to pull the scss pages in the ftp directory? I've looked through the code for the index page, as well as the linked css and js pages, and can't find any part that references the scss pages. Yet they still load within the original css? Am I missing something?
Thanks for the clarification.
SCSS is a preprocessor language. That means it will be converted to CSS. The SCSS files do not get loaded by the website. Instead you will have to make your changes to the SCSS files and then convert them to CSS. It is likely that there is a system in place which takes care of that for you. Take a look around and find out whether there is a gulpfile or a gruntfile hanging out somewhere.
The main.scss file gets compiled to the main.css file. The output produced by the sass compiler replaces the main.css file. There is no link. You need to compile your main.scss file using sass.
Apart from that, you use 'CSS file' rather than 'CSS page' as CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheet which is definitely not page in itself.
Web browsers don't know what a SCSS or SASS file is. They only load CSS.
Your site could have a build tool (grunt, gulp, rake etc) to compile your .scss source files into .css files, which is then published to your web site.
Sometimes your application server will know how to do the translation on the fly and you can just edit the .scss file.
A lot of the time many .scss files will be combined into one .css file so you are often editing a different file to what you would expect when you look at what .css is loaded the browser.
Can PhpStorm hide generated CSS files under the LESS file?
Here is a screenshot of a WordPress theme:
I've found myself opening the .css file instead of the .less one on numerous occasions. Is there some way to group these files together so I never see the .css file? A bit like a closed folder, have to click the arrow to view generated file?
(I remember seeing a similar feature somewhere, not sure if it was in PhpStorm or another editor)
I did have LESS files in their own folder, but I still found myself opening the .css file from time to time by accident. It would be good to hide them completely.
Thanks!
Never mind, it seems to be (kinda?) working:
style.less nests style.css correctly, not sure why the others are not showing.
It is called File Nesting and it’s available from the gear icon in the Project browser.