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Joe Casabona
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Mar 19, 2020 ⋅ 5 min read

A beginner’s guide to programming for CSS with Sass

Joe Casabona Podcast consultant, educator, dad, husband. Likes the Yankees, cigars, and Disney. Makes courses for Lynda and writes tech books. Host of @howibuilt.

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One Reply to "A beginner’s guide to programming for CSS with Sass"

  1. Hey Joe,

    First off, thanks for all of the tips here on how to make our CSS more powerful and modular.

    I just felt like it is worth noting that in the example of the for loop that the line at the end “$heading-size: $heading-size / 1.25;” will actually make it so that $heading-size remains at the final value before the loop is done. I think this is important because if you have another style right after it something like:

    h1.double-size { font-size: $heading-size * 2; }

    Then it would not be double the size you are expecting most likely. Do you know if there is a way to have the value reset to it’s original after the loop is finished without making the code too clunky?

    Again, this is a great piece and thank you for sharing it!

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