unit-tools.scss

// VALUE UNIT STRIPPING AND CONVERSION FUNCTION TOOLS
// By Nicolas Giethlen (aka Chmood)

// VARIABLES

$browser-fontsize-base: 16 !default; // Default browser font-size in px (unitless)
$pixels-per-rem: 10 !default; // Root font-size in px (unitless)

// FUNCTIONS

// STRIP-UNIT
// Remove the unit of a length
// @param {Number} $number - Number to remove unit from
// @return {Number} - Unitless number
// See: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/sass/strip-unit-function/
@function strip-unit($number) {
	@if type-of($number) == 'number' and not unitless($number) {
		@return $number / ($number * 0 + 1);
	}

	@return $number;
}

// UNITS CONVERSION
// These functions inputs can be with or without units
// They return values WITH unit (use strip-unit() if needed)
// Adapted from: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/sass/px-to-em-functions/

// PX2EM
// Converts pixels to em's
@function px2em($pixels, $context: $browser-fontsize-base) {
	$pixels: strip-unit($pixels);
	$context: strip-unit($context);

	@return $pixels / $context * 1em;
}

// EM2PX
// Converts em's to pixels
@function em2px($ems, $context: $browser-fontsize-base) {
	$ems: strip-unit($ems);
	$context: strip-unit($context);

	@return $ems * $context * 1px;
}

// EM2REM
// Converts em's to rem's
@function em2rem($ems, $context: $browser-fontsize-base, $context-rem: $pixels-per-rem) {
	$ems: strip-unit($ems);
	$context: strip-unit($context);
	$context-rem: strip-unit($context-rem);

	@return $ems * $context / $context-rem * 1rem;
}

// REM2EM
// Converts rem's to em's
@function rem2em($rems, $context: $browser-fontsize-base, $context-rem: $pixels-per-rem) {
	$rems: strip-unit($rems);
	$context: strip-unit($context);
	$context-rem: strip-unit($context-rem);

	@return $rems / $context * $context-rem * 1em;
}

// PX2REM
// Converts pixels to rem's
@function px2rem($pixels, $context-rem: $pixels-per-rem) {
	$pixels: strip-unit($pixels);
	$context-rem: strip-unit($context-rem);

	@return $pixels / $context-rem * 1rem;
}

// REM2PX
// Converts rem's to pixels
@function rem2px($rems, $context-rem: $pixels-per-rem) {
	$rems: strip-unit($rems);
	$context-rem: strip-unit($context-rem);

	@return $rems * $context-rem * 1px;
}

Sass (SCSS) helper functions aimed to handle unit stripping (read removing) and converting (from and to) px, em and rem.