Sass and Compass for Designers

Pre, Post, Squish, Push, and Pull

Just like the padding helpers, Susy has helper mixins to more easily administer margins within a grid. They work in a very similar manner. The helpers are called pre, post, squish, push, and pull.

Pre

The pre mixin applies margin before an element. For example, to add a column’s worth of margin before an element, you would add this mixin:

@include pre(1);

Be aware that if you add margin to an element with pre, you may need to adjust the amount of columns with the span-columns mixin. Therefore, to adjust the main content to give the same visual effect with pre instead of prefix or pad, we could write this:

.main-content {
  @include pre(1);
  @include span-columns(8 omega, 12);
}

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