Micah asuh

Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

Moving from jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})

	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	# Download lists, unpack and filter, write to stdout
	curl -s https://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php \
	\| sed -n "s/.value='\(http:.=bt_.\)'./\1/p" \
	\| xargs wget -O - \
	\| gunzip \
	\| egrep -v '^#'

	/* =============================================================================
	WordPress WYSIWYG Editor Styles
	========================================================================== */

	.entry-content img {
	margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;
	max-width: 100%;
	height: auto;
	}
	.alignleft, img.alignleft {

	/*
	* Updated to use the function-based method described in http://www.phpied.com/social-button-bffs/
	* Better handling of scripts without supplied ids.
	*
	* N.B. Be sure to include Google Analytics's _gaq and Facebook's fbAsyncInit prior to this function.
	*/

	(function(doc, script) {
	var js,
	fjs = doc.getElementsByTagName(script)[0],