I've been using Bootstrap and SASS together for the first time in my new project.
I've just added the following lines in my SASS file and compiled with Prespos,
#media (min-width: $screen-sm-min){
#myemail
padding-top: 20px
}
Surprisingly, it showed the following error,
Failed to compile style.sass | Error: Invalid CSS after "}": expected 1 selector or at-rule, was "{}"
13 | padding-top: 20px
14 | }
I've tried several workarounds and luckily got that compile successfully with the following code with a very minor change ( just moved the closing brace to previous line ),
#media (min-width: $screen-sm-min){
#myemail
padding-top: 20px}
I wonder is that the way SASS work. Can you explain the specific reason behind this behaviour?
You forget braces around #myemail selector.
#media (min-width: $screen-sm-min) {
#myemail {
padding-top: 20px;
}
}
There are may be some expressions under one media query:
#media (min-width: $screen-sm-min) {
.one {
...
}
.two {
...
}
.three {
...
}
}
What's more you can white media query inside rule:
#myemail {
padding-top: ...
#media (min-width: $screen-sm-min) {
padding-top: 20px;
}
}
Related
I'm trying to combine the use of a Sass variable with #media queries as follows:
$base_width:1160px;
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) {$base_width: 960px;}
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) {$base_width: 1160px;}
$base_width is then defined at various points in the stylesheet width percentage-based measurements to produce fluid layouts.
When I do this, the variable seems to be recognized properly but the conditions for the media query are not. For example, the above code produces an 1160px layout regardless of screen width. If I flip-flop the #media statements like so:
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) {$base_width: 1160px;}
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) {$base_width: 960px;}
It produces a 960px layout, again regardless of screen width. Also note that if I remove the first line of $base_width: 1160px; it returns an error for an undefined variable. Any ideas what I'm missing?
This is simply not possible. Since the trigger #media screen and (max-width: 1170px) happens on the client-side.
Achieving your expected result would only be possible if SASS grabbed all rules and properties in your stylesheet containing your $base_width variable and copied/changed them accordingly.
Since it won't work automatically you could do it by hand like this:
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px)
$base_width: 960px // you need to indent it to (re)set it just within this media-query
// now you copy all the css rules/properties that contain or are relative to $base_width e.g.
#wrapper
width: $base_width
...
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px)
$base_width: 1160px
#wrapper
width: $base_width
...
This is not really DRY but the best you can do.
If the changes are the same every time you could also prepare a mixin containing all the changing values, so you wouldn't need to repeat it. Additionally you can try to combine the mixin with specific changes. Like:
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px)
+base_width_changes(1160px)
#width-1171-specific-element // additional specific changes, that aren't in the mixin
display: block
And the Mixin would look like this
=base_width_changes($base_width)
#wrapper
width: $base_width
Similar to Philipp Zedler's answer, you can do it with a mixin. That lets you have everything in a single file if you want.
#mixin styling($base-width) {
// your SCSS here, e.g.
#Contents {
width: $base-width;
}
}
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) {
#include styling($base-width: 960px);
}
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) {
#include styling($base-width: 1160px);
}
This isn't possible with SASS, but it is possible with CSS variables (or CSS custom properties). The only drawback is browser support – but there's actually a PostCSS plugin - postcss-css-variables - that "flattens" the use of CSS variables (which gives you support for older browsers, too).
The following example works great with SASS (and with postcss-css-variables you get support for older browsers too).
SCSS
$mq-laptop: 1440px;
$mq-desktop: 1680px;
:root {
--font-size-regular: 14px;
--gutter: 1rem;
}
// The fact that we have to use a `max-width` media query here, so as to not
// overlap with the next media query, is a quirk of postcss-css-variables
#media (min-width: $mq-laptop) and (max-width: $mq-desktop - 1px) {
:root {
--font-size-regular: 16px;
--gutter: 1.5rem;
}
}
#media (min-width: $mq-desktop) {
:root {
--font-size-regular: 18px;
--gutter: 1.75rem;
}
}
.my-element {
font-size: var(--font-size-regular);
padding: 0 calc(var(--gutter) / 2);
}
This would result in the following CSS. The repetitive media queries will increase the file size, but I have found that the increase is usually negligible once the web server applies gzip (which it will usually do automatically).
CSS
.my-element {
font-size: 14px;
padding: 0 calc(1rem / 2);
}
#media (min-width: 1680px) {
.my-element {
padding: 0 calc(1.75rem / 2);
}
}
#media (min-width: 1440px) and (max-width: 1679px) {
.my-element {
padding: 0 calc(1.5rem / 2);
}
}
#media (min-width: 1680px) {
.my-element {
font-size: 18px;
}
}
#media (min-width: 1440px) and (max-width: 1679px) {
.my-element {
font-size: 16px;
}
}
Edit: Please do not use this solution. The answer by ronen is much better.
As a DRY solution, you can use the #import statement inside a media query, e.g. like this.
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) {
$base_width: 960px;
#import "responsive_elements";
}
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) {
$base_width: 1160px;
#import "responsive_elements";
}
You define all responsive elements in the file included using the variables defined in the media query. So, all you need to repeat is the import statement.
With #ronen's great answer and a map, there's some real power available:
#mixin styling($map) {
.myDiv {
background: map-get($map, 'foo');
font-size: map-get($map, 'bar');
}
}
#media (min-height: 500px) {
#include styling((
foo: green,
bar: 50px
));
}
#media (min-height: 1000px) {
#include styling((
foo: red,
bar: 100px
));
}
It's now possible to have lots more DRY media queries targeting .myDiv with a bunch of different values.
Map docs: https://sass-lang.com/documentation/functions/map
Example map usage: https://www.sitepoint.com/using-sass-maps/
I had the same problem.
The $menu-width variable should be 240px on the mobile view #media only screen and (max-width : 768px) and 340px on the desktop view.
So i have simply created two variables:
$menu-width: 340px;
$menu-mobile-width: 240px;
And here is how i have used it:
.menu {
width: $menu-width;
#media only screen and (max-width : 768px) {
width: $menu-mobile-width;
}
}
Two recommendations
1
Write your "default" CSS statements to be for small screens and only use media queries for larger screens. There's usually no need for a max-width media query.
Example (assuming the element has class "container")
#mixin min-width($width) {
#media screen and (max-width: $width) {
#content;
}
}
.container {
width: 960px;
#include min-width(1170px) {
width: 1160px;
}
}
2 Use CSS variables to solve the problem, if you can.
#mixin min-width($width) {
#media screen and (max-width: $width) {
#content;
}
}
:root {
--container-width: 960px;
#include min-width(1170px) {
--container-width: 1160px;
}
}
.container {
width: var(--container-width);
}
Note:
Since it will have the width of 1160px when the window has a width of 1170px, it may be better to use a width of 100% and max-width of 1160px, and the parent element might have a horizontal padding of 5px, as long as the box-sizing property is set to border-box. There are a lot of ways to solve the problem. If the parent is not a flex or grid container you might use .container { margin: auto }.
This is also possible with %placeholders.
%placeholders can be wrapped in media queries. So you could set up multiple variables to use at different screen sizes, and then the placeholders would automagically pre-process accordingly. I'm using some mixins to shorten my media query declarations here also.
In your _vars.scss file:
$width-1: 960px;
$width-2: 1160px;
In your _placeholders.scss file:
%variable-site-width {
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) { width: $width-1; }
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) { width: $width-2; }
}
In your page.scss file:
.wrapper. { #extend %variable-site-width; background: red; etc... }
And this will compile to something similar to:
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) {
.wrapper { width: 960px; }
}
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) {
.wrapper { width: 1160px; }
}
Voila!
I use this technique extensively for things like variable font sizes and a raft of other things.
Using Sass, I have the following mixin:
#mixin ss($property, $value, $value-smallscreen) {
#{$property}: $value;
#media screen and (max-height: $smallscreen-maxheight) {
#{$property}: $value-smallscreen;
}
}
.Header
{
#include ss('height', $RowHeight, $RowHeight-smallscreen);
#include ss('font-size', $HeaderFontsize, $HeaderFontsize-smallscreen);
}
The ‘problem’ that I have is that this generates two #media statements. That is, it generates the following CSS:
.Header {
height: 41px;
font-size: 11pt; }
#media screen and (max-height: 768px) {
.Header {
height: 35px; } }
#media screen and (max-height: 768px) {
.Header {
font-size: 9pt; } }
What I want to know, is there any way to both:
Keep the definitions together, to ensure that the styles are added for both big and small screens, and
Only have one '#media' section.
One of my current projects requires this approach to the SASS structure, and my solution has been to watch the CSS output using a CSS post-processor like Pleeease to watch the CSS files as SASS/Compass outputs them.
This allows live media query packing among other optimization.
I'm doing a code review for sass code and came across using media queries inside the code. Is it a good practice? Are there better alternatives to writing this code?
.col-md-push-8 {
padding-top: 1.5em;
.btn {
&.btn-block {
border: none;
background-color: $footer-button;
margin: 1em 0 .5em;
width: 100%;
padding: 7px 10px;
border-radius: 8px;
&:hover {
background-color: $footer-button-hover;
}
#media (min-width: $screen-md-min) {
color: #025191;
&:hover .media span p.media-heading {
color: #0070ca;
}
}
}
}
}
Note: The code is for illustration purpose only and is not completely shown here.
I think that what your way to do it is perfectly fine if you're using SASS >= 3.2 (was buggy before).
Just one thing that you could do to define your media queries breakpoints more globally is to create a mixin for that purpose that you will re-use on each element you need responsive.
This way when you have to change let's say your min breakpoint, add another or change your media min-width to max-width, you don't have to do it everywhere.
Some little example assuming you have already defined $screen-md-min and $screen-md-mid :
#mixin custom-media($size) {
#if ($size == $small) {
#media (min-width: $screen-md-min) { #content; }
}
#else if ($size == $middle) {
#media (min-width: $screen-md-mid) { #content; }
}
}
And call it like so :
.btn {
&.btn-block {
...
#include custom-media($small) {
color: #025191;
&:hover .media span p.media-heading {
color: #0070ca;
}
}
}
}
There is no difference if you put Media Query inside or outside. It just depends on your preffered style.
Style 1
.some-class {
#media (min-width: 700px) {
background: red;
}
}
Style 2
#media (min-width: 700px) {
.some-class {
background: red;
}
}
Both will compile as:
#media (min-width: 700px) {
.some-class {
background: red;
}
}
Sass handles this fine, but that code is going to produce overly qualified selectors and is hardly concise.
There are a number of patterns for writing “better” CSS and Sass, such as BEM, OOCSS, OOCSS + Sass, and SMACSS.
There's also a bunch of great information on Media Queries in Sass that is probably worth a read.
I am trying to store the #content directive from one mixin into a list so that I can use it later in another mixin. I am getting errors when I try this. Anyone know if this is possible?
Example is a simplified version of what I am doing, but basically I want to create custom breakpoint classes but without having all of the extra markup from the media query on every class.
Heres what I've got:
$breakpoints: ((sm, 320px), (md, 780px), (lg, 960px));
$all: ();
#mixin push($name) {
$content: (#content);
$all: append($all, ($name, $content));
}
#mixin printAll() {
#each $breakpoint in $breakpoints {
$breakpointName: nth($breakpoint, 1);
$breakpointSize: nth($breakpoint, 2);
#media only screen and (min-width: $breakpointSize) {
#each $item in $all {
$className: nth($item, 1);
$content: nth($item, 2);
#{$className}-#{$breakpointName} {
#{$content};
}
}
}
}
}
#include push(color-red){ color: red; }
#include push(color-green){ color: green; }
#include push(color-blue){ color: blue; }
#include push(totally-crazy){
color: red;
background-color: green;
border-top: solid 5px brown;
border-left: solid 5px gray;
border-right: solid 5px blue;
border-bottom: solid 5px yellow;
}
#include printAll();
So basically I want to output something like:
#media only screen and (min-width: 320px) {
//all custom classes with -sm suffix here
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 728px) {
//all custom classes with -md suffix here
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 960px) {
//all custom classes with -lg suffix here
}
INSTEAD of:
#media only screen and (min-width: 320px) {
//first pushed class with -sm suffix here
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 728px) {
//first pushed class with -md suffix here
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 960px) {
//first pushed class with -lg suffix here
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 320px) {
//second pushed class with -sm suffix here
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 728px) {
//second pushed class with -md suffix here
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 960px) {
//second pushed class with -lg suffix here
}
etc..
Example here:
http://sassmeister.com/gist/10332360
I'm trying to combine the use of a Sass variable with #media queries as follows:
$base_width:1160px;
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) {$base_width: 960px;}
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) {$base_width: 1160px;}
$base_width is then defined at various points in the stylesheet width percentage-based measurements to produce fluid layouts.
When I do this, the variable seems to be recognized properly but the conditions for the media query are not. For example, the above code produces an 1160px layout regardless of screen width. If I flip-flop the #media statements like so:
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) {$base_width: 1160px;}
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) {$base_width: 960px;}
It produces a 960px layout, again regardless of screen width. Also note that if I remove the first line of $base_width: 1160px; it returns an error for an undefined variable. Any ideas what I'm missing?
This is simply not possible. Since the trigger #media screen and (max-width: 1170px) happens on the client-side.
Achieving your expected result would only be possible if SASS grabbed all rules and properties in your stylesheet containing your $base_width variable and copied/changed them accordingly.
Since it won't work automatically you could do it by hand like this:
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px)
$base_width: 960px // you need to indent it to (re)set it just within this media-query
// now you copy all the css rules/properties that contain or are relative to $base_width e.g.
#wrapper
width: $base_width
...
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px)
$base_width: 1160px
#wrapper
width: $base_width
...
This is not really DRY but the best you can do.
If the changes are the same every time you could also prepare a mixin containing all the changing values, so you wouldn't need to repeat it. Additionally you can try to combine the mixin with specific changes. Like:
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px)
+base_width_changes(1160px)
#width-1171-specific-element // additional specific changes, that aren't in the mixin
display: block
And the Mixin would look like this
=base_width_changes($base_width)
#wrapper
width: $base_width
Similar to Philipp Zedler's answer, you can do it with a mixin. That lets you have everything in a single file if you want.
#mixin styling($base-width) {
// your SCSS here, e.g.
#Contents {
width: $base-width;
}
}
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) {
#include styling($base-width: 960px);
}
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) {
#include styling($base-width: 1160px);
}
This isn't possible with SASS, but it is possible with CSS variables (or CSS custom properties). The only drawback is browser support – but there's actually a PostCSS plugin - postcss-css-variables - that "flattens" the use of CSS variables (which gives you support for older browsers, too).
The following example works great with SASS (and with postcss-css-variables you get support for older browsers too).
SCSS
$mq-laptop: 1440px;
$mq-desktop: 1680px;
:root {
--font-size-regular: 14px;
--gutter: 1rem;
}
// The fact that we have to use a `max-width` media query here, so as to not
// overlap with the next media query, is a quirk of postcss-css-variables
#media (min-width: $mq-laptop) and (max-width: $mq-desktop - 1px) {
:root {
--font-size-regular: 16px;
--gutter: 1.5rem;
}
}
#media (min-width: $mq-desktop) {
:root {
--font-size-regular: 18px;
--gutter: 1.75rem;
}
}
.my-element {
font-size: var(--font-size-regular);
padding: 0 calc(var(--gutter) / 2);
}
This would result in the following CSS. The repetitive media queries will increase the file size, but I have found that the increase is usually negligible once the web server applies gzip (which it will usually do automatically).
CSS
.my-element {
font-size: 14px;
padding: 0 calc(1rem / 2);
}
#media (min-width: 1680px) {
.my-element {
padding: 0 calc(1.75rem / 2);
}
}
#media (min-width: 1440px) and (max-width: 1679px) {
.my-element {
padding: 0 calc(1.5rem / 2);
}
}
#media (min-width: 1680px) {
.my-element {
font-size: 18px;
}
}
#media (min-width: 1440px) and (max-width: 1679px) {
.my-element {
font-size: 16px;
}
}
Edit: Please do not use this solution. The answer by ronen is much better.
As a DRY solution, you can use the #import statement inside a media query, e.g. like this.
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) {
$base_width: 960px;
#import "responsive_elements";
}
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) {
$base_width: 1160px;
#import "responsive_elements";
}
You define all responsive elements in the file included using the variables defined in the media query. So, all you need to repeat is the import statement.
With #ronen's great answer and a map, there's some real power available:
#mixin styling($map) {
.myDiv {
background: map-get($map, 'foo');
font-size: map-get($map, 'bar');
}
}
#media (min-height: 500px) {
#include styling((
foo: green,
bar: 50px
));
}
#media (min-height: 1000px) {
#include styling((
foo: red,
bar: 100px
));
}
It's now possible to have lots more DRY media queries targeting .myDiv with a bunch of different values.
Map docs: https://sass-lang.com/documentation/functions/map
Example map usage: https://www.sitepoint.com/using-sass-maps/
I had the same problem.
The $menu-width variable should be 240px on the mobile view #media only screen and (max-width : 768px) and 340px on the desktop view.
So i have simply created two variables:
$menu-width: 340px;
$menu-mobile-width: 240px;
And here is how i have used it:
.menu {
width: $menu-width;
#media only screen and (max-width : 768px) {
width: $menu-mobile-width;
}
}
Two recommendations
1
Write your "default" CSS statements to be for small screens and only use media queries for larger screens. There's usually no need for a max-width media query.
Example (assuming the element has class "container")
#mixin min-width($width) {
#media screen and (max-width: $width) {
#content;
}
}
.container {
width: 960px;
#include min-width(1170px) {
width: 1160px;
}
}
2 Use CSS variables to solve the problem, if you can.
#mixin min-width($width) {
#media screen and (max-width: $width) {
#content;
}
}
:root {
--container-width: 960px;
#include min-width(1170px) {
--container-width: 1160px;
}
}
.container {
width: var(--container-width);
}
Note:
Since it will have the width of 1160px when the window has a width of 1170px, it may be better to use a width of 100% and max-width of 1160px, and the parent element might have a horizontal padding of 5px, as long as the box-sizing property is set to border-box. There are a lot of ways to solve the problem. If the parent is not a flex or grid container you might use .container { margin: auto }.
This is also possible with %placeholders.
%placeholders can be wrapped in media queries. So you could set up multiple variables to use at different screen sizes, and then the placeholders would automagically pre-process accordingly. I'm using some mixins to shorten my media query declarations here also.
In your _vars.scss file:
$width-1: 960px;
$width-2: 1160px;
In your _placeholders.scss file:
%variable-site-width {
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) { width: $width-1; }
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) { width: $width-2; }
}
In your page.scss file:
.wrapper. { #extend %variable-site-width; background: red; etc... }
And this will compile to something similar to:
#media screen and (max-width: 1170px) {
.wrapper { width: 960px; }
}
#media screen and (min-width: 1171px) {
.wrapper { width: 1160px; }
}
Voila!
I use this technique extensively for things like variable font sizes and a raft of other things.