July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
130 pages
2h 11m
English
Content preview from Pragmatic Guide to Sass 3
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| 19 | Understanding Value Types in Sass |
Everything we write in Sass, from classes to pixel widths, can be considered a value. However, values can be of different types. This makes some aspects of them incompatible, and learning about their differences is essential for writing more complex Sass. In some cases, it’s possible to convert from one value type to another with some special Sass functions. In this task, you’ll learn about the types of values found in Sass, plus some conversion functions.
Numbers are pretty self-explanatory. Any time you write a digit in Sass, that’s of the number type—even if it has a unit associated with it. So 12, 59.7%, and 200px are all numbers.
Colors are also straightforward. They can be hex values (for example, ...