Sass and Compass for Designers

Summary

We've covered a lot of ground in this chapter:

• How and when to use nesting
• How we can use nesting with the parent selector to work more easily with Modernizr
• How the @extend directive works
• What placeholder selectors are and how to use them
• How to use and write mixins to easily produce code on demand

As such, in this chapter we haven't made much of a dent in the design of http://sassandcompass.com.

However, the skills we've learnt are so useful in everything we're going to write in future; I think that's a fair trade-off.

It might take some time before you find yourself using these features day-to-day. Don't feel like you need to use them right away and at every available opportunity. If all you do for starters is nest and extend the odd style ...