How can I target the syntactical parent when using the ampersand? - sass

I'm trying to remove some duplication in my scss selector.
.container {
.operation {
color: green;
}
.row.is-active &,
.row:hover & {
.operation {
color: inherit;
}
}
}
I tried rewriting it like this:
.container {
.operation {
color: green;
}
.row & {
&.is-active, &:hover {
.operation {
color: inherit;
}
}
}
}
However, this causes .is-active to be applied to .container instead of .row
How can I target the syntactical parent when using the ampersand ?

I took some time to answer the question again, as I mis-understood it initially. Unfortunately there is absolutely no way possible to do this in SASS at the moment. Even when trying to make use of the more advanced SASS functions to manipulate selectors and strings it is not possible.
There is some Good News
It is possible to do using Stylus.
I have created a live Example on codepen.
// Stylus - not SASS
.container {
.operation {
color: green;
}
.row {
^[-1..-1]:is-active ^[0], ^[-1..-1]:hover ^[0] {
.operation {
color: inherit;
}
}
}
}
I hope this helps you in some way, at the very least it might provide you with an option, but unfortunately SASS cannot achieve what you are attempting.

Related

check if the parent has a specific class on it

This is the usual list where one of the items is .open
for this I want to check if the parent (in this case is .item but its not relevant i think) has a specific class.
I've tried > but it doesnt seem to work.
Essentially how to put this:
&.open .info {
display: none;
}
&.open .inner-info {
display: flex;
}
inside of the their specific classes:
.info {
display: flex;
/* some other stuff */
}
.inner-info {
display: none;
/* some other stuff */
}
all of this is inside an .item{} block
So how do i have it so that i only have two blocks inside the .item{}?
It seems overkill to me, but you can use a hacky way to do that using a mixin and various functions. Please note that this will work for your specific example but probably not for something else.
I used the helper functions str-to-list and nth-delete, which are not native to SASS.
#mixin parentWithClass($class) {
$parent: nth-delete(str-to-list(#{&}), -1);
#at-root #{selector.replace(&, $parent, #{$parent}#{$class})} {
#content;
}
}
.item {
.inner {
color: blue;
#include parentWithClass(".open") {
color: orange;
}
}
.inner-info {
color: red;
#include parentWithClass(".open") {
color: grey;
}
}
}
You can also nest -info in inner.

How to prefix SASS blocks with a specific scope ID via mixin

Looking to be able to add the app scope id to my sass files when we have multiple apps reusing class names.
That way I can have the following definition:
$app-scope-id: 'appOne';
And then write my SCSS in that app
.blockName{
background: blue;
&__element{
color: orange;
}
}
And call a mixin or something else to just go
#include prefixMixin(){
.blockName{
background: blue;
&__element{
color: orange;
}
}
}
And that render out css like:
.appOne-blockName{ background: blue; }
.appOne-blockName__element{ color: orange }
I'm aware I can use interpolation at the beginning of my block, but was hoping I could keep it cleaner with just a mixin call where necessary and only call it once for an entire SASS file if I wanted.
I don't think it's possible to do what you want with SASS. You could maybe do something like this:
$app-scope-id: 'appOne';
#mixin prefix($selectorType: ".") {
#at-root {
#{$selectorType}#{$app-scope-id}-#{&} {
#content;
}
}
}
blockName {
#include prefix() {
background: blue;
&__element{
color: orange;
}
}
}
Which compiles as:
.appOne-blockName { background: blue; }
.appOne-blockName__element { color: orange; }
But you would still need to include it for each selector that needs the prefix. I'm not sure this can be called "clean" either.

SASS select class that was chained to parent

I have the following HTML <div class="parent green"></div>
The green class may or may not be added. It is dynamic. It may also be another name.
In SASS how do I give properties to a .child element of parent when class green is chained to it?
I tried:
.parent {
.child {
.green & {
color: green;
}
}
}
It doesn't work.
I also tried the following which works but I am looking for something similar to the sass above. The code will become repeatable below because I have to add child each time for every dynamic class.
.parent {
&.green {
.child {
color: green;
}
}
}
I'm trying to get a structure like this if possible with sass:
.parent {
.child {
.green & { /* when .parent.green */
color: green;
}
.blue & { /* when .parent.blue */
color: blue;
}
.text-align-right & { /* when .parent.text-align-right */
text-align: right;
}
etc...
}
}
& is treated as parent selector reference in Sass, because of this your code doesn't work since it refers wrong selector.
Use of & directly will not help here, but your goal can be achieved by using mixins, for example:
#mixin child($class) {
&.#{$class} {
.child {
#content;
}
}
}
.parent {
#include child(green) {
color: green;
}
#include child(blue) {
color: blue;
}
#include child(text-align-right) {
text-align: right;
}
}
This piece of code produces result that you want to get, you can check in by yourself on sassmeister.

Is it possible to reference a further parent than just the one above?

I have the following sample code:
.level1 {
// css
.level2 {
// css
. level3 {
// css
color: red;
}
}
And then
.level1.blue .level .level3 {
color: blue
}
I would like to put the second rule somehow on the first bit of code, so that I don't repeat the structure again and I have both color possibilities above, is this possible in anyway?
I wasn't planning on answering my own question, but it seems that I found out exactly what I was looking for only it has recently being added to sass and will be available on sass 3.4. I believe there's a prerelease to tried but I havent tried it yet.
Basically what I was looking has been answered to me on github:
https://github.com/sass/sass/issues/286#issuecomment-49112243
So on 3.4 you can do:
.level1 {
.level2 {
.level3 {
#at-root #{selector-append(".blue", &)} {
color: blue;
}
color: red;
}
}
}
which is exactly what I was looking for.
There's a bunch of addition related to the parent selector (&), you can learn more from it at https://github.com/sass/sass/issues/1117
Bear in mind though, that at the time of writing this answer, all of this is rather new.
Also see: https://github.com/sass/sass/blob/master/doc-src/SASS_CHANGELOG.md
And: http://www.phase2technology.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-sass-3-4/
This:
#mixin level3color($color) {
.level2 {
.level3 {
color: $color;
}
}
}
.level1 {
#include level3color(#FF0000);
&.blue {
#include level3color(#0000FF);
}
}
produces this:
.level1 .level2 .level3 {
color: red;
}
.level1.blue .level2 .level3 {
color: blue;
}
Gotta love mixins!
EDIT:
This is still pretty clean (or at least clean considering what you're trying to do) because you can still have your structure there.
.level1 {
// css
.level2 {
// css
.level3 {
// css
color: red;
}
}
&.blue { #include level3color(blue); }
&.yellow { #include level3color(yellow); }
}
A simple example:
.child{
background-color:red;
.parent:hover &{
background-color:blue;
}
}
goes into
.child {
background-color: red;
}
.parent:hover .child {
background-color: blue;
}
http://sassmeister.com/gist/e994e056d3cc3b342e2c

Selecting current element in Sass

Does Sass have a selector to refer to the element at the current nesting level? That way duplication like this could be avoided:
.something {
color: red;
a {
color: red; // a tags are already styled globally
}
}
And I could write this instead.
.something {
self, a {
color: red;
}
}
There is a good new feature in the Sass 3.3 - #at_root
.something {
&, a {
color: red;
}
}
More variants of using this feature you can find here:
https://github.com/nex3/sass/issues/774

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