August 23, 2018 in Learn
How to Install Sass on Windows with Chocolatey
Do you want to know how to Install Sass on Windows? With Chocolatey, installation and updates make life and CSS management so much easier.
August 21, 2018 in Learn
How to Install Sass on MacOS with Homebrew
Have you ever needed to replace the same color in 50 places throughout a gigantic CSS file? It sure would be nice if you could make that color a variable and change it in one place. Functions and mixins? Those…
April 21, 2017 in Treehouse News
New & Upcoming Course Highlights: Python, Web Optimization & Sass
Every week, new courses and workshops are published to the growing Treehouse Library! Here’s a short list of what we’ve added recently, upcoming course highlights, and our weekly video update of What’s New at Treehouse. Start learning to code today with a free…
May 6, 2015 in Learn
Intro to Neat — A Semantic Sass Grid
Mobile devices came to conquer the planet, and they won. Well . . . mobile devices at least seem to dominate the way in which we access the Web. As a result of the mobile revolution, we no longer have…
September 22, 2014 in Learn
New Course: Modular CSS with Sass
In this new course, you’re going to build a UI toolkit using Sass and many of the best practices and principles of modular CSS architecture. You’ll learn how a modular approach with Sass can boost your workflow and cut down maintenance…
September 4, 2014 in Learn
Smarter Sass Mixins with Null
With Sass mixins we’re able to pass a list of arguments to set the values of properties. For example, the following mixin uses four variables as arguments to define the display, padding and margin properties of an element. @mixin display ($disp, $padding, $l-margin, $r-margin)…
August 27, 2014 in Treehouse News
New Course: Advanced Sass
Now that you know the basics of Sass, it’s time to put these new skills to work in the best way possible. Learning the ‘best practices’ for writing Sass will gain you admiration among your peers. There are three sections…
July 31, 2014 in Learn
Modular Pseudo-Elements with Sass
When generating pseudo-elements with CSS, we usually need to define certain properties to display the elements. This often means repeating CSS declarations for content, display and position, the most common properties used for generating shapes with pseudo-elements. With Sass, we’re able to…
February 26, 2014 in Learn
Front-End Guidelines, Sublime Text, Sass and Compass | The Treehouse Show Episode 79
It’s Tuesday which means that the Treehouse Show is back! In episode 79 of The Treehouse Show, Nick and Jason (@jseifer) talk about Front-End Guidelines, Sublime Text, Sass and Compass, and more. There’s also the usual roundup of horrible puns…
January 29, 2014 in Learn
A Tale of Front-end Sanity: Beware the Sass @import
Imagine coming into work on your first day as a front-end designer or dev and getting your Rails development system up and running for the first time. You’re really excited to start working on something in the app or website…
December 25, 2013 in Learn
Sass Tip: The Double Ampersand Selector
In Sass, the ampersand (&) symbol is used to reference the parent selector in a nested rule. For example, the following targets .btn on :hover: .btn { … &:hover { background: dodgerblue; } } We can also place the &…
December 2, 2013 in Learn
Sass Conf 2013
Sass Conf 2013 took place back on October 12th and 13th, and we were there to film it! We’re excited to be able to share all of the amazing speakers with you, with 15 sessions and over 12 hours of…