I am using singularity.gs (Drupal 7/Omega 4), and I want to stack my content in columns.
In 960gs, you just add grid-4 to the element, and it spans 4 columns with appropriate margins (more or less).
To make a 12-column grid with sigularity.gs I've written this:
.grid-4 {
width: column-span(4, 6);
margin-left: gutter-span();
float: left;
}
.grid-4:first-child {
margin-left: 0;
}
Is there a simpler or more idiomatic way to do it?
I'm not sure if this is a question per se, but I think I can answer it.
Singularity allows different output styles to provide their own span mixins to better adhere to that output style's mental model. 960gs works on the float output style, allowing you to to change what you have to the following:
.grid-4 {
#include float-span(4);
&:nth-of-type(3n) {
#include float-span(4, 'last');
}
}
A working SassMeister with this should give you a clear idea of what's going on.
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Is there any way to customize the variables in SASS?
For example:
.m-b-{$number} {
margin-bottom: $number;
}
If I give class="m-b-50" to an element, it should take margin-bottom 50. I just want to know if it is possible with SASS.
Yes it is possible with the help of variable interpolation or variable substitution which uses #{} for variable substitution in SASS and mixins which is a block of code just like function.
Interpolation is the process of evaluating an expression or a string containing one or more variables, yielding a result in which the variables are replaced with their corresponding values.
Simple example of interpolation and set values to the css property in SASS:
$number:60;
$n: 20px;
.m-b-#{$number}{
margin-bottom: #{$number}px;
margin-top: $n;
}
To create customize class names, will use mixins:
#mixin margin-class($side, $number) {
$firstLetter: str-slice($side, 0, 1);
.m-#{$firstLetter}-#{$number}{
margin-#{$side}: #{$number}px;
}
}
$margins: (10, 20);
$sides: ("top", "right", "bottom", "left");
#mixin generate-margin(){
#each $margin in $margins{
#each $side in $sides{
#include margin-class($side, $margin);
}
}
}
#include generate-margin();
Here, generate-margin() will get executed which will call margin-class() for each $margins and $sides, and will generate the below CSS classes:
.m-t-10 {
margin-top: 10px;
}
.m-r-10 {
margin-right: 10px;
}
.m-b-10 {
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.m-l-10 {
margin-left: 10px;
}
.m-t-20 {
margin-top: 20px;
}
.m-r-20 {
margin-right: 20px;
}
.m-b-20 {
margin-bottom: 20px;
}
.m-l-20 {
margin-left: 20px;
}
That's the one way when you want only for specific values, but if you want to create margin class for 0-20, you can loop thru 0 to 20 as shown below:
#mixin generate-margin(){
#for $margin from 1 through 20{
#each $side in $sides{
#include margin-class($side, $margin);
}
}
}
For anyone else facing this issue, here is how one can achieve this:-
#for $i from 1 through 10 {
.mb-#{$i} {
margin-bottom: #{$i}rem;
}
}
The answer is: no it is not possible. SASS is just a language to pre-generate CSS for you. There is no on-demand, dynamic creation of classes triggered by the contents of your HTML markup. When it comes time for the browser to render your HTML and apply your specified classes, it is still just using CSS. I.e. if you assign class="m-b-50" to an element, the class .m-b-50 must already be explicitly defined somewhere. As noted in the other answers, SASS can make it easier to generate a bunch of pre-defined classes but you must know which values you want to support up front.
Now, you could generate classes for some very large, all-inclusive range like -1000 to 1000 to effectively support all values you might ever try to use and it would seem to do what you wanted, but you would be forcing your users to download a larger CSS file with, most likely, a large percentage of it being unused CSS which is wasteful and can be inconsiderate in a world of paid & limited data plans.
I've been looking for the answers, but either it's not what I am really looking for, or I am not searching up properly. I want to dynamically generate the class name. Since, I use margin-top quite frequently, I have multiple classes defined with a set of rules, and I want to achieve with LESS.
I don't think is possible to create dynamic generated classes, as far as I did my research. Here is my code:
.margin-top-(#value)px {
margin-top: #value;
}
Desired Output
.margin-top-20px {
margin-top: 20px;
}
.margin-top-100px {
margin-top: 100px;
}
Just an example of what I am expecting.
Try to use mixin to achieve this.
//define the mixin
.margin-top(#value) {
.margin-top-#{value}{
margin-top:#value;
}
}
//use the mixin like this
.margin-top(20px);
U can try it here: http://winless.org/online-less-compiler
I'm using Bourbon's Neat library for my grid system.
I have some code like this:
section {
#include outer-container;
aside { #include span-columns(3); }
article { #include span-columns(9); }
}
I want to increase the width of the aside tag by, let's say, 50px on hover. However,this will cause the article to be pushed down to the next line.
Is there a way to scale the width of one column and proportionally resize the other column?
I know this can be done with javascript but I was wondering if there is a way to do this with the Neat grid-system .
Thanks!
EDIT
Here is the solution that worked for me:
section {
#include outer-container;
aside {
#include span-columns(3);
&:hover {
#include span-columns(2);
& + article {
#include span-columns(11);
}
}
}
article { #include span-columns(9); }
}
I'm using the css sibling selector + to select the article element when the aside is being hovered over.
There’s no built-in functionality for this, but have you tried overriding width on :hover? That is to say, add x length to the width of Column A and take the same amount away from Column B. CSS calc() could help here.
Neat’s docs give insight into the exact function of span-columns and its output: http://thoughtbot.github.io/neat-docs/latest/#span-columns
That being said, this sounds like a great use case for flexbox, if your needs allow for that.
I've got a SCSS-based layout in which I want to use the spacing module from OOCSS.
The OOCSS module is pure CSS - ptl, for example, stands for padding-top: large, where large is a defined value (by default 20px).
I'd like to enhance it with SCSS. So far I've been able to replace the fixed values with SCSS variables, so I can change the values in one place if I want to (I don't want to):
$spacing-small: 5px;
$spacing-medium: 10px;
$spacing-large: 20px;
...
.pts,.pvs,.pas{padding-top:$spacing-small !important}
Now I'd like to be able to use ptn,pvs, etc. as mixins, so I can do this:
.client-name {
#include spacing-pvs; // this has the same padding properties as pvs
}
I'm flexible in the syntax, but that's the functionality I'd be interested in having.
The only way I can think of for doing this is manually defining every single mixin:
#mixin spacing-pvs {
padding-top: $spacing-small !important;
padding-bottom: $spacing-small !important;
}
.pvs { #include spacing-pvs; }
But there are around 56 styles/mixins. Doing each one individually like this would be pain to write and to maintain.
Is there a better way to do this in SASS/SCSS?
The most efficient mixin would be like this (you'll need a similar mixin for padding, or add an extra argument to switch between margin/padding):
#mixin marginify($t: null, $r: null, $b: null, $l: null) {
margin-top: $t;
margin-right: $r;
margin-bottom: $b;
margin-left: $l;
}
.test {
#include marginify($t: 10px, $b: 10px);
color: green;
}
Which generates this:
.test {
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
color: green;
}
The null (available in Sass 3.2+) is doing its magic here: if a variable is null, then it doesn't generate a property for it. However, you have to give up the use of !important (most people would argue that you should only use it as a last resort anyway). Reliance on this mixin is going to introduce a fair bit of bloat because the longhand form is always used over the shorthand (margin: 10px 0), so you'll need to use it responsibly or write a more powerful mixin that will generate the shorthand if appropriate.
That said, using a mixin for this purpose (adding margins) does reduce readability in your code. Before I looked at the entire source, the names made no sense. There's a lot to be said about the readability of vanilla CSS. The marginify mixin isn't really a reusable pattern like a clearfix or inline-menu mixin might be: writing a mixin isn't just about saving keystrokes.
I ended up not using mixins at all. Instead, I left the CSS rules as they were, and I used this less documented feature called #extend. Behold!:
.client-name {
#extend .pvs; // this has the same padding properties as .pvs
}
I havent done CSS in awhile (~5-7yrs).
So i need a little assistance in a possible solution to my quandry.
Ideal design:
table.ctable
{ class:collapsible collapsed; }
Now i know that its syntactically not correct but was wondering if there was a way to create some base-class CSS and then have those class(es) derive into a parent. I know its not OOP, but figured there would be a way around the current structure to accomidate this type of inclusion.
You couls use a SASS mixin:
#mixin left($dist) {
float: left;
margin-left: $dist;
}
#data {
#include left(10px);
}
or a LessCSS mixin:
.left(#dist) {
float: left;
margin-left: #dist;
}
#data {
.left(10px);
}
No, unfortunately you can't inherit rules from another class. The closest you can get is JavaScript getting elements by class name and applying extra classes to them, but then you have the jump between the page loading the JS running.