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Compiling Multiple CSS Files into One
11.9.2025
Stu Robson outlines two ways to compile multiple CSS files when you aren't relying on Sass for it.
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Breaking Boundaries: Building a Tangram Puzzle With (S)CSS
12.6.2025
We put it to the test and it turns out Sass can replace JavaScript, at least when it comes to low-level logic and puzzle behavior. With nothing but maps, mixins, functions, and a whole lot of math, we managed to bring our Tangram puzzle to life, no JavaScript required.
Breaking Boundaries:...
Compiling CSS With Vite and Lightning CSS
3.2.2025
Are partials the only thing keeping you writing CSS in Sass? With a little configuration, it's possible to compile partial CSS files without a Sass dependency. Ryan Trimble has the details.
Compiling CSS With Vite and Lightning CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Joker 2 Director Says Gaga's Harley Quinn Lacks 'High Voice, Accent,' And Sass
21.8.2024
This year’s highly anticipated Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, sees Joaquin Phoenix return as the famous crime prince and Batman villain. But this time, he’s not alone as the sequel adds Harley Quinn, played by pop superstar and decorated actor Lady Gaga, to the upcoming DC film. But if you were...
Popular Online Game Accused Of Profiting Off Of Child Gambling
18.8.2023
Roblox has long been accused of not doing enough to make sure its massively popular gaming platform is free of toxicity and exploitation. Now parents are joining together in a class-action lawsuit to take the $17 billion company to court over allegations that it gets children into online gambling...
How I Made an Icon System Out of CSS Custom Properties
22.9.2022
SVG is the best format for icons on a website, there is no doubt about that. It allows you to have sharp icons no matter the screen pixel density, you can change the styles of the SVG on hover …
How I Made an Icon System Out of CSS Custom Properties originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...
A Practical Tip For Using Sass Default Parameters
13.1.2022
Sass offers functions and mixins that accept parameters. You can use Sass default parameters, that is, parameters that have a value even if you don’t provide them when the function or mixin is called.
Let’s focus on mixins here. …
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How I Made a Generator for SVG Loaders With Sass and SMIL Options
26.8.2021
While learning Vue.js, I started building free web tools that involved the exploration of SVG, with the goal of learning something about both! Let’s take a look at one of those tools: a generator that makes SVG loaders and …
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Efficient Infinite Utility Helpers Using Inline CSS Custom Properties and calc()
6.8.2021
I recently wrote a very basic Sass loop that outputs several padding and margin utility classes. Nothing fancy, really, just a Sass map with 11 spacing values, looped over to create classes for both padding and margin on each side. …
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Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript: Introduction to Trigonometry
1.6.2021
In this series of articles we’ll get an overview of trigonometry, understand how it can be useful, and delve into some creative applications in CSS and JavaScript.
The post Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript: Introduction to Trigonometry appeared first on Codrops
Creating Stylesheet Feature Flags With Sass !default
14.5.2021
!default is a Sass flag that indicates conditional assignment to a variable — it assigns a value only if the variable was previously undefined or null. Consider this code snippet:
$variable: 'test' !default;
To the Sass compiler, this line …
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Comparing Styling Methods in 2020
19.10.2020
Over on Smashing, Adebiyi Adedotun Lukman covers all these styling methods. It’s in the context of Next.js, which is somewhat important as Next.js has some specific ways you work with these tools, is React and, thus, is a components-based architecture. But the styling methods talked about...
When Sass and New CSS Features Collide
29.6.2020
Recently, CSS has added a lot of new cool features such as custom properties and new functions. While these things can make our lives a lot easier, they can also end up interacting with preprocessors, like Sass, in funny ways.
So this is going to be a post about the issues I’ve encountered...
Making My Netlify Build Run Sass
9.6.2020
Let’s say you wanted to build a site with Eleventy as the generator. Popular choice these days! Eleventy doesn’t have some particularly blessed way of preprocessing your CSS, if that’s something you want to do. There are a variety of ways to do it and perhaps that freedom is part...
How to Tame Line Height in CSS
15.5.2020
In CSS, line-height is probably one of the most misunderstood, yet commonly-used attributes. As designers and developers, when we think about line-height, we might think about the concept of leading from print design — a term, interestingly enough, that comes from literally putting pieces of lead...
Getting JavaScript to Talk to CSS and Sass
3.4.2020
JavaScript and CSS have lived beside one another for upwards of 20 years. And yet it’s been remarkably tough to share data between them. There have been large attempts, sure. But, I have something simple and intuitive in mind — something not involving a structural change, but rather putting...
Sass !default and themeable design systems
11.3.2020
This is a great blog post from Brad Frost where he walks us through an interesting example. Let’s say we’re making a theme and we have some Sass like this:
.c-text-input {
background-color: $form-background-color;
padding: 10px
}
If the $form-background-color variable isn’t defined then...
A Handy Sass-Powered Tool for Making Balanced Color Palettes
9.12.2019
For those who may not come from a design background, selecting a color palette is often based on personal preferences. Choosing colors might be done with an online color tool, sampling from an image, "borrowing" from favorite brands, or just sort of randomly picking from a color wheel until...
Introducing Sass Modules
7.10.2019
Sass just launched a major new feature you might recognize from other languages: a module system. This is a big step forward for @import. one of the most-used Sass-features. While the current @import rule allows you to pull in third-party packages, and split your Sass into manageable "partials,"...
A Proof of Concept for Making Sass Faster
17.9.2019
At the start of a new project, Sass compilation happens in the blink of an eye. This feels great, especially when it’s paired with Browsersync, which reloads the stylesheet for us in the browser. But, as the amount of Sass grows, compilation time increases. This is far from ideal.
It can be a real...