Unless you are careful of course

So I’m in the middle of redesigning/rebuilding my main site, as you would know if you are keeping up with me here, and I am using Sass (SCSS syntax). I love it so far. There is a lot you can do to save you time during the build. There is also the “This new crap I’m using is awesome! I’m going to do this and this and this…”, which can get you in trouble. What kind of trouble you ask? The kind that over complicates your CSS of course. Stop talking and read please! Jeez, I’ll tell you how you can easily do that.

Think before you leap

A day after starting my build using this awesome technology, and no it isn’t new, but it is still fairly new to me. Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets has some cool features that you immediately want to dive into. Variables are the easiest, and it is kind of hard to abuse those. Mixins though, that is where I got into trouble. A good example, which you might have seen in my last post is a mixin I was using for ‘font’. Seemed like a great idea at the time! Let’s shorten that CSS so that I only have to type in the properties that will feed the mixin. What could be wrong with that? Well, technically nothing, but it also wasn’t helping me and I was just adding to the confusion with a completely stupid mixin (at least in this case). Here is what I am talking about:

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