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Direct link to the article Creating a Maintainable Icon System with Sass
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Creating a Maintainable Icon System with Sass

One of my favorite ways of adding icons to a site is by including them as data URL background images to pseudo-elements (e.g. ::after) in my CSS. This technique offers several advantages:

  • They don’t require any additional HTTP requests
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Tracy Rotton on Aug 28, 2019
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Use a Sass Variable for a Selector

Say you need to use a certain selector in multiple places in your code. It’s not tremendously common, to be sure, but stuff happens. Repeated code is typically an opportunity for abstraction. Abstracting values in Sass is easy, but selectors …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 2, 2017
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