It was my first presentation for Hack Thursday (hackthursday.com).

1. Making CSS fun again :)

2. About
○ Front end developer at Conrad Caine
○ Analysis and development of systems at SENAC

3. This is my first presentation and everything can be boring...
so let's drink beer!

4. I will talk about
○ CSS weaknesses
○ Syntax
○ Features
○ Techniques
○ ...

5. CSS WEAKNESSES

6. What's wrong with CSS?
○ No variables
○ Prefixes
○ Lack of abstraction
○ Hard to maintain (mainly in big css files)

7. THE SOLUTION

8. CSS Preprocessors
○ Sass
○ Less
○ Stylus
They are the most popular.

9. WHAT ARE CSS
PREPROCESSORS?

10. What are CSS Preprocessor?
"CSS preprocessors take code written in the preprocessed
language and then convert that code into the same old css
we’ve been writing for years."

11. STARTING WITH SASS

12. About
○ Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets
○ Sass makes CSS fun again
○ Sass get installed as Ruby gem, then you need to have
Ruby on your machine.

13. Installing
gem install sass

14. The Process
○ Create a .scss file
○ Watch this .scss
○ Sass will create your .css
○ Be happy!

15. Watching a .scss file
sass --watch dev.scss:style.css

16. Output style
Sass allows you to choose between four different output
styles using the --style command-line flag.
sass --watch dev.scss:style.css --style nested
sass --watch dev.scss:style.css --style expanded
sass --watch dev.scss:style.css --style compact
sass --watch dev.scss:style.css --style compressed

17. VARIABLES

18. How can we do this today?

19. Variables
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
$width: 100px; .side {
$color: #00214D; width: 100px;
$size: 16px; }
.side { .bar {
width: $width; width: 100px;
} font-size: 16px;
color: #00214D;
.bar { }
width: $width;
font-size: $size;
color: $color;
}

20. Math operations
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
$width: 600px; .nav li {
$length: 3; width: 200px;
}
.nav li {
width: $width / $length
}

21. Color functions
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
$color: #ce4dd6; .nav a {
color: #e5a0e9;
}
.nav a {
.nav a:hover {
color: lighten($color, 20%); color: #d976e0;
&:hover { }
color: lighten($color, 10%);
}
}

22. NESTING

23. We are accustomed to do this:
/* primate.css */
.nav li {
list-style:none;
float:left;
}
.nav li a {
display:block;
padding:5px;
}

24. Now we can do this:
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
.nav { .nav li {
li { list-style: none;
float: left;
list-style:none;
}
float:left;
a { .nav li a {
display:block; display: block;
color:blue; color: blue;
} }
}
}

25. Parent Reference
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
.nav { .nav li {
li { list-style: none;
float: left;
list-style:none;
}
float:left;
a { .nav li a {
display:block; display: block;
color:blue; color: blue;
&:hover { }
color:red;
.nav li a:hover {
}
display: block;
} color: red;
} }
}

26. MIXINS

27. Mixins
/* primate.css */
.nav li a {
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid red;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-radius:
10px;
border-radius: 10px;
}

28. Mixins
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
@mixin borderRadius { .nav li a {
-moz-border-radius: 10px; padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid red;
-webkit-border-radius:
10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-radius:
border-radius: 10px; 10px;
} border-radius: 10px;
}
.nav li a {
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid red;
@include borderRadius;
}

29. Arguments
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
@mixin title($size) { article h2 {
font: { font-family: arial;
font-size: 40px;
family: arial;
font-weight: bold;
size: $size; }
weight: bold;
}
}
article h2 {
@include title(40px);
}

30. INHERITANCE

31. Inheritance
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
.nav { .nav, .category {
background: #CCC; background: #CCC;
border: 1px solid red;
border: 1px solid red;
}
}
.category {
@extend .nav;
}

32. INTERPOLATION

33. Interpolation
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
$name: box; p.box {
$attr: border; border-color: blue;
}
p.#{$name} {
#{$attr}-color: blue;
}

34. @import

35. @import
core.css fonts.css reset.css footer.css

36. @import
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
@import "reset.scss";
@import "fonts.scss"; /* reset */
@import "footer.scss"; html {}
/* fonts */
@font-face {}
/* footer */
footer {}

37. Control Directives

38. @if
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
$type: 'games';
p {
p { color: blue;
@if $type == sports { }
color: green;
}
@else if $type == games {
color: blue;
}
@else {
color: red;
}
}

39. @for
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
@for $i from 1 through 3 { .item-1 {
.item-#{$i} { font-size: 12px;
}
font-size: 12px * $i;
} .item-2 {
} font-size: 24px;
}
.item-3 {
font-size: 36px;
}

40. @each
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
@each $type in a, b, c { .a-icon {
.#{$type}-icon { background-image: url
("/images/a.png");
background-image: url
('/images/#{$type}.png'); }
} .b-icon {
} background-image: url
("/images/b.png");
}
.c-icon {
background-image: url
("/images/c.png");
}

41. @while
/* dev.scss */ /* output */
$i: 6; .item-6 {
@while $i > 0 { width: 12px;
}
.item-#{$i} { width: 2px *
$i; }
.item-4 {
$i: $i - 2; width: 8px;
} }
.item-2 {
width: 4px;
}

42. Thank you!
○ gabrielneutzling@gmail.com
○ facebook.com/gneutzling
○ @gneutzling