Sass and Compass for Designers

If you know HTML and CSS, then you can have all the power of Sass and Compass at your disposal. This step-by-step guide will take you through the time-saving features that makes it so much easier to create cross-browser CSS.

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Ben Frain

Paid access

|Sep 2025

E-Book €29.99Institutions €118.95

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Book Description

A step-by-step tutorial guide, taking you through how to build a responsive Sass and Compass powered website. If you understand HTML and CSS, this book is all you need to take your code to the next level with Sass and Compass. No prior understanding of CSS preprocessors or programming conventions is needed.

What you will learn

Install Sass and Compass on your system and then set up and maintain Sass and Compass powered projects!
Learn how to easily manipulate colors; tinting, shading, mixing, and complementing existing colors in your stylesheets becomes a cinch.
Make your own responsive CSS-based layout grid that scales across any viewport with no extra markup needed.
Create media query-based CSS rules alongside existing styles, making responsive website building simpler.
Explore Compass?s many helpers and tools. You?ll learn to embed images and fonts and produce advanced cross-browser CSS3.
Create perfect image sprites with Compass in moments.
Learn how to create loops with Sass to automate repetitive CSS tasks.
Understand how to compartmentalize code, making your CSS more maintainable, understandable, and modular than ever before.

Sass and Compass for Designers

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