Articles Tagged nesting

Yes, you can, and it doesn’t really matter in what order. A CSS preprocessor is not required. It works in regular CSS.

This works:

@supports(--a: b) {
  @media (min-width: 1px) {
    body {
      background: red;
    }
  }
}

And so does this, the reverse nesting of the above:

@media (min-width: 1px) {
  @supports(--a: b) {
    body {
      background: green;
    }
  }
}

I love nesting my @media query breakpoints. It’s perhaps the most important feature of Sass to me. Maybe I pick a method and do it like this:

.element {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 100px 1fr;
  @include breakpoint(baby-bear) {
    display: block;
  }
}

That’s straightforward enough. But what if my element has several sub-elements and the breakpoint affects them as well? There are different approaches, and I’m never quite sure which one I should be doing.… Read article “Where Do You Nest Your Sass Breakpoints?”

The following is a guest post by Filip Naumovic from Salsita Software. Filip has built a Sass tool to help with an issue I know I’ve experienced many times. You’re happily nesting in Sass. You’re maybe a level or two deep, and you need to style a variation based on some parent selector. You need to either break out of the nesting and start a new nesting context, or go nuclear with @at-root. I’ll let Filip tell … Read article “inStyle (Modifying the Current Selector `&` in Sass)”

The & is an extremely useful feature in Sass (and Less). It’s used when nesting. It can be a nice time-saver when you know how to use it, or a bit of a time-waster when you’re struggling and could have written the same code in regular CSS.

Let’s see if we can really understand it.… Read article “The Sass Ampersand”