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Jump Start Sass
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Jump Start Sass

by Hugo Giraudel, Miriam Suzanne
April 2016
Beginner
150 pages
3h 6m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 7The @extend Directive

Welcome to the most powerful, dangerous, and controversial feature in the Sass language! The @extend directive is one way to handle inheritance in Sass. The goal is to represent a relationship between two items, where one is a category and the other is an object within that category—sometimes called an “is-a” relationship. Hugo is a developer, Chewbacca is a Wookie, and a warning is a message.

Building Clear Relationships

In order to understand the purpose of @extend, let’s start with some plain CSS for a message style, and then more specific info and warning message variations. In our brilliantly designed fantasy, the default message style will give us a basic gray box, while the info and warning variations add ...

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