These standards should be followed for how visual designers will code banners and landing pages.
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Prefer dash-cased variable names (e.g. $my-variable
) over camelCased or snake_cased variable names. It is acceptable to prefix variable names that are intended to be used only within the same file with an underscore (e.g. $_my-variable
).
Mixins
Mixins should be used to DRY up your code, add clarity, or abstract complexity--in much the same way as well-named functions. Mixins that accept no arguments can be useful for this, but note that if you are not compressing your payload (e.g. gzip), this may contribute to unnecessary code duplication in the resulting styles.
Extend directive
@extend
should be avoided because it has unintuitive and potentially dangerous behavior, especially when used with nested selectors. Even extending top-level placeholder selectors can cause problems if the order of selectors ends up changing later (e.g. if they are in other files and the order the files are loaded shifts). Gzipping should handle most of the savings you would have gained by using @extend
, and you can DRY up your stylesheets nicely with mixins.
Nested selectors
Do not nest selectors more than three levels deep!
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.page-container { .content { .profile { // STOP! } } } |
When selectors become this long, you're likely writing CSS that is:
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