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Sass Changelog
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3.4.6 (Unreleased)
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Parent selectors now work in selector pseudoclasses (for example,
:not(&)). -
@forloops no longer crash when one bound is an integer-like float.
3.4.5 (19 September 2014)
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Fix
sass-convert --recursive. -
When using
sass --watch, imported stylesheets within the working directory will be watched for changes. This matches the behavior of Sass 3.3. -
Set exit code 65, indicating a data error, when the compiler fails due to a Sass error.
3.4.4 (12 September 2014)
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Produce more useful error messages when paths have incompatible encodings on Windows.
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Allow
@keyframesselectors to use arbitrary identifiers to support libraries like Skrollr. -
sass-convertnow preserves double-star mutliline comments (e.g./** foo */).
3.4.3 (4 September 2014)
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Don't crash when a non-existent directory is on the load path.
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Fix
--watchon Windows. -
Passing too many arguments to a function via
...is now a warning rather than silently discarding additional arguments. In future versions of Sass, this will become an error.
3.4.2 (28 August 2014)
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Properly detect the output format from the output filename for
sass-convert. -
Properly parse interpolation immediately following a string.
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Fix
--watchfor symlinked files and directories.
3.4.1 (22 August 2014)
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Fix
--watch. -
Don't generate
:not()selectors that contain more than one complex selector. -
Fix a parsing bug with attribute selectors containing single quotes.
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Don't put rulesets inside
@keyframesdirectives when bubbling them up to the top level. -
Properly handle
@keyframesrules that contain no properties. -
Properly handle
--sourcemap=nonewith--update. -
Silence "template deleted" notifications for templates that weren't being watched.
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Top-level control structures can assign to global variables without needing
!global. Variables first defined in these structures will still be local without!global.
3.4.0 (18 August 2014)
Using & in SassScript
For a long time, Sass has supported a special
{file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#parent-selector "parent selector", &}, which is used
when nesting selectors to describe how a nested selector relates to the
selectors above it. Until now, this has only been usable in selectors, but now
it can be used in SassScript as well.
In a SassScript expression, & refers to the current parent selector. It's a
comma-separated list of space-separated lists. For example:
.foo.bar .baz.bang, .bip.qux {
$selector: &;
}
The value of $selector is now ((".foo.bar" ".baz.bang"), ".bip.qux"). The
compound selectors are quoted here to indicate that they're strings, but in
reality they would be unquoted.
If there is no parent selector, the value of & will be null. This means you
can use it in a mixin to detect whether a parent selector exists:
@mixin does-parent-exist {
@if & {
&:hover {
color: red;
}
} @else {
a {
color: red;
}
}
}
Selector Functions
Complementing the ability to use & in SassScript, there's a new suite of
functions that use Sass's powerful @extend infrastructure to allow users to
manipulate selectors. These functions take selectors in the fully-parsed format
returned by &, plain strings, or anything in between. Those that return
selectors return them in the same format as &.
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The {Sass::Script::Functions#selector_nest
selector-nest($selectors...)function} nests each selector within one another just like they would be nested in the stylesheet if you wrote them separated by spaces. For example,selector-nest(".foo, .bar", ".baz")returns.foo .baz, .bar .baz(well, technically(("foo" ".baz") (".bar" ".baz"))). -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#selector_append
selector-append($selectors...)function} concatenates each selector without a space. It handles selectors with commas gracefully, so it's safer than just concatenating the selectors using#{}. For example,selector-append(".foo, .bar", "-suffix")returns.foo-suffix, .bar-suffix. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#selector_extend
selector-extend($selector, $extendee, $extender)function} works just like@extend. It adds new selectors to$selectoras though you'd written$extender { @extend $extendee; }. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#selector_replace
selector-replace($selector, $original, $replacement)function} replaces all instances of$originalin$selectorwith$replacement. It uses the same logic as@extend, so you can replace complex selectors with confidence. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#selector_unify
selector-unify($selector1, $selector2)function} returns a selector that matches only elements matched by both$selector1and$selector2. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#is_superselector
is-superselector($super, $sub)function} returns whether or not$supermatches a superset of the elements$submatches. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#simple_selectors
simple-selectors($selector)function} takes only a selector with no commas or spaces (that is, a compound selector). It returns the list of simple selectors that make up that compound selector. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#selector_parse
selector-parse($selector)function} takes a selector in any format accepted by selector functions and returns it in the same format returned by&. It's useful for getting a selector into a consistent format before manually manipulating its contents.
One of the most straightforward applications of selector functions and & is
adding multiple suffixes to the same parent selector. For example:
.list {
@at-root #{selector-append(&, "--big", &, "--active")} {
color: red;
}
}
Smaller Improvements
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Sourcemaps are now generated by default when using the
sassorscssexecutables and when using Sass as a plugin. This can be disabled by passing--sourcemap=noneon the command line or setting the:sourcemapoption to:nonein Ruby. -
If a relative URI from a sourcemap to a Sass file can't be generated, it will now fall back to using an absolute "file:" URI. In addition,
--sourcemap=filecan be passed on the command line to force all URIs to Sass files to be absolute. -
To guarantee that a sourcemap will be portable,
--sourcemap=inlinecan be passed to include the full source text in the sourcemap. Note that this can cause very large sourcemaps to be generated for large projects. -
@extendcan now extend selectors within selector pseudoclasses such as:notand:matches. This also means that placeholder selectors can be used within selector pseudoclasses. This behavior can be detected usingfeature-exists(extend-selector-pseudoclass). -
Sass now supports an
@errordirective that prints a message as a fatal error. This is useful for user-defined mixins and functions that want to validate arguments and throw useful errors for unexpected conditions. Support for this directive can be detected usingfeature-exists(at-error). -
When using colors in SassScript, the original representation of the color will be preserved wherever possible. If you write
#f00, it will be rendered as#f00, not asredor#ff0000. In compressed mode, Sass will continue to choose the most compact possible representation for colors. -
Add support for unit arithmetic with many more units, including angles, times, frequencies, and resolutions. This behavior can be detected using
feature-exists(units-level-3). -
Sass now follows the CSS Syntax Level 3 specification for determining a stylesheet's encoding. In addition, it now only emits UTF-8 CSS rather than trying to match the source encoding.
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Sass now allows numbers to be written using scientific notation. It will not emit numbers in scientific notation until it's more widely supported in browsers.
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Sass now allows almost any identifier to be used as a custom numeric unit. Identifiers that are ambiguous with subtraction, such as
px-1px, are disallowed. -
Sass now supports using ids as values in SassScript as defined in the CSS Basic User Interface Module. They're treated as unquoted strings.
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SassScript strings and
@importdirectives now support the full CSS string grammar. This includes handling escape codes and ignoring backslashes followed by newlines. -
When the
sassandscssexecutables encounter an error, they will now produce a CSS file describing that error. Previously this was enabled only for--watchand--updatemode; now it's enabled whenever a CSS file is being written to disk. -
The command-line
--helpdocumentation for thesass,scss, andsass-convertexecutables is revised and re-organized. -
The
map-removefunction now allows multiple map keys to be removed at once. -
The new
rebeccapurplecolor is now supported. -
The
rgb(),rgba(),hsl(), andhsla()functions now follow the CSS spec by clamping their arguments to the valid ranges rather than emitting an error. Sass-specific color functions still throw errors for out-of-range values. -
Sass will now emit a warning when a named color is used directly in interpolation (
#{}) in a context where the hex representation would likely be invalid. This should help users avoid having their stylesheets break in compressed output mode. -
Fix a bug where some
@mediaqueries would be followed by newlines in compressed mode.
Backwards Incompatibilities -- Must Read!
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The current working directory will no longer be placed onto the Sass load path by default. If you need the current working directory to be available, set
SASS_PATH=.in your shell's environment. -
Sass will now throw an error when a list of pairs is passed to a map function.
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mix()'s deprecated argument names,$color-1and$color-2, will now throw errors. Use$color1and$color2instead. -
comparable()'s deprecated argument names,$number-1and$number-2, will now throw errors. Use$number1and$number2instead. -
percentage()'s,round()'s,ceil()'s,floor()'s, andabs()'s deprecated argument name,$value, will now throw an error. Use$numberinstead. -
index()now returnsnullrather thanfalseif the value isn't found in the list. -
All variable assignments not at the top level of the document are now local by default. If there's a global variable with the same name, it won't be overwritten unless the
!globalflag is used. For example,$var: value !globalwill assign to$varglobally. This behavior can be detected usingfeature-exists(global-variable-shadowing). -
Unescaped newlines in SassScript strings in SCSS are deprecated, since they're invalid according to the CSS string grammar. To include a newline in a string, use "\a" or "\a " as in CSS.
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The subject selector operator,
!, is deprecated and will produce a warning if used. The:has()selector should be used instead. -
Quoted strings in lists will now be unquoted when those lists are interpolated in anything else. This makes it much easier to add user-defined strings to selector lists returned by
&. This is unlikely to be behavior anyone's relying on and would be difficult to deprecate gracefully, so there will be no deprecation period for this change.
3.3.14 (1 August 2014)
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Improved edge-case parsing of special-syntax functions like
calc()andexpression(). -
Fixed a bug when using
--updatewith absolute paths on Windows.
3.3.13 (31 July 2014)
- Fixed a bug on ruby 2.0 where watching several folders was broken. Work around for a bug in listen.
3.3.12 (29 July 2014)
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The Sass::Compiler class has a number of new minor features to support Compass's compilation needs:
- The template_deleted event of the Sass Compiler class now runs before the side-effect events.
- The Sass Compiler class can now be used to clean output files.
- The Sass Compiler class now exposes an updating_stylesheets callback that runs before stylesheets are mass-updated.
- The Sass Compiler class now exposes a the compilation_starting callback that runs before an individual stylesheet is compiled.
- The Sass Compiler class now runs the updated_stylesheets callback after stylesheets are mass-updated.
- The Sass Compiler can now be made to skip the initial update when watching.
3.3.11 (25 July 2014)
str-slice()now correctly returns an empty string when$end-atis 0.
3.3.10 (11 July 2014)
- Properly encode URLs in sourcemaps.
3.3.9 (27 June 2014)
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Defining a function named "and", "or", or "not" is now an error at definition-time. This isn't considered a backwards-incompatible change because although these functions could be defined previously, they could never be successfully invoked.
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Fix deprecation warnings for using
File.exists?on recent Ruby versions. -
Fix a bug where
@extendwithin@at-rootcould crash the compiler. -
Gracefully handle the inability to change cache files' permissions.
3.3.8 (20 May 2014)
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When a use of
@at-rootdoesn't add any new rules, it will no longer split its containing block in two (issue 1239). -
Fix a
sass-convertbug where rules would occasionally be folded together incorrectly when converting from CSS to Sass. -
Fix error messages for dynamically-generated
@mediaqueries with empty queries.
3.3.7 (2 May 2014)
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Properly set the default
Sass::Pluginoptions in Rails 3.0. -
Fix a few cases where source ranges were being computed incorrectly for SassScript expressions.
3.3.6 (25 April 2014)
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The
inspect()function will only interpret/between numbers as division under the same circumstances that it would be interpreted as division when used in a property. -
Fix several cases where parsing pathological comments would cause Sass to take exponential time and consume all available CPU.
3.3.5 (14 April 2014)
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Fix
LoadErrors when using--watchwith the bundled version of Listen. -
Properly parse negative numbers preceded by a comment.
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Avoid unnecessary interpolation when running
sass-converton media queries. -
Avoid freezing Ruby's
trueorfalsevalues.
3.3.4 (21 March 2014)
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Improve the warning message for
index(...) == false. -
Fix the use of directives like
@font-facewithin@at-root. -
Fix a
sass --watchissue on Windows where too many files would be updated on every change. -
Avoid freezing Ruby's
nilvalue.
3.3.3 (14 March 2014)
- Fix a bug in Sass that was causing caching errors when unserializable objects were in the Ruby options hash. Note that these errors may persist when using Sass with Sprockets until the Sprockets importer is made serializable.
3.3.2 (11 March 2014)
- Fix a bug with loading the bundled version of Listen.
3.3.1 (10 March 2014)
This release includes a number of fixes for issues that popped up in the immediate aftermath of the 3.3.0 release.
Re-bundle listen
With 3.3.0, we un-bundled the listen library from Sass. We did so hoping that it would make it easier for users to keep up to date with the latest features and bug fixes, but unfortunately listen 2.0 and on have dropped support for Ruby 1.8.7, which Sass continues to support. Further complicating things, RubyGems lacks the ability to install only the version of listen supported by the current Ruby installation, so we were unable to use a standard Gem dependency on listen.
To work around this, we tried to piggyback on RubyGems' native extension support to install the correct version of listen when Sass was installed. This is what we released in 3.3.0. However, this caused numerous problems in practice, especially for users on Windows. It quickly became clear that this wasn't a viable long-term solution.
As such, we're going back to the bundling strategy. While not perfect, this worked well enough for the duration of the Sass 3.2 release, and we expect it to cause much less havoc than un-bundling. We'll bundle listen 1.3.1, the most recent version that retains Ruby 1.8.7 compatibility. If a user of Sass has a more recent version of listen installed, that will be preferred to the bundled version. Listen versions through 2.7.0 have been tested, and we expect the code to work without modification on versions up to 3.0.0, assuming no major API changes.
Smaller Changes
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Fixed a small interface incompatibility with listen 2.7.0.
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Fix some corner cases of path handling on Windows.
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Avoid errors when trying to watch read-only directories using listen 1.x.
3.3.0 (7 March 2014)
SassScript Maps
SassScript has a new data type: maps. These are associations from SassScript values (often strings, but potentially any value) to other SassScript values. They look like this:
$map: (key1: value1, key2: value2, key3: value3);
Unlike lists, maps must always be surrounded by parentheses. () is now an
empty map in addition to an empty list.
Maps will allow users to collect values into named groups and access those groups dynamically. For example, you could use them to manage themes for your stylesheet:
$themes: (
mist: (
header: #DCFAC0,
text: #00968B,
border: #85C79C
),
spring: (
header: #F4FAC7,
text: #C2454E,
border: #FFB158
),
// ...
);
@mixin themed-header($theme-name) {
h1 {
color: map-get(map-get($themes, $theme-name), header);
}
}
There are a variety of functions for working with maps:
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The {Sass::Script::Functions#map_get
map-get($map, $key)function} returns the value in the map associated with the given key. If no value is found, it returnsnull. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#map_merge
map-merge($map1, $map2)function} merges two maps together into a new map. If there are any conflicts, the second map takes precedence, making this a good way to modify values in a map as well. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#map_remove
map-remove($map, $key)function} returns a new map with a key removed. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#map_keys
map-keys($map)function} returns all the keys in a map as a comma-separated list. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#map_values
map-values($map)function} returns all the values in a map as a comma-separated list. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#map_has_key
map-has-key($map, $key)function} returns whether or not a map contains a pair with the given key.
All the existing list functions also work on maps, treating them as lists of
pairs. For example, nth((foo: 1, bar: 2), 1) returns foo 1. Maps can also be
used with @each, using the new multiple assignment feature (see below):
@each $header, $size in (h1: 2em, h2: 1.5em, h3: 1.2em) {
#{$header} {
font-size: $size;
}
}
Produces:
h1 {
font-size: 2em;
}
h2 {
font-size: 1.5em;
}
h3 {
font-size: 1.2em;
}
Variable Keyword Arguments
Maps can be passed as variable arguments, just like lists. For example, if
$map is (alpha: -10%, "blue": 30%), you can write scale-color($color, $map...) and it will do the same thing as scale-color($color, $alpha: -10%, $blue: 30%). To pass a variable argument list and map at the same time, just do
the list first, then the map, as in fn($list..., $map...).
You can also access the keywords passed to a function that accepts a variable
argument list using the new {Sass::Script::Functions#keywords keywords($args)
function}. For example:
@function create-map($args...) {
@return keywords($args);
}
create-map($foo: 10, $bar: 11); // returns (foo: 10, bar: 11)
Lists of Pairs as Maps
The new map functions work on lists of pairs as well, for the time being. This feature exists to help libraries that previously used lists of pairs to simulate maps. These libraries can now use map functions internally without introducing backwards-incompatibility. For example:
$themes: (
mist (
header #DCFAC0,
text #00968B,
border #85C79C
),
spring (
header #F4FAC7,
text #C2454E,
border #FFB158
),
// ...
);
@mixin themed-header($theme-name) {
h1 {
color: map-get(map-get($themes, $theme-name), header);
}
}
Since it's just a migration feature, using lists of pairs in place of maps is already deprecated. Library authors should encourage their users to use actual maps instead.
Source Maps
Sass now has the ability to generate standard JSON source maps of a format that will soon be supported in most major browsers. These source maps tell the browser how to find the Sass styles that caused each CSS style to be generated. They're much more fine-grained than the old Sass-specific debug info that was generated; rather than providing the source location of entire CSS rules at a time, source maps provide the source location of each individual selector and property.
Source maps can be generated by passing the --sourcemap flag to the sass
executable, by passing the {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#sourcemap-option :sourcemap
option} to {Sass::Plugin}, or by using the
{Sass::Engine#render_with_sourcemap} method. By default, Sass assumes that
the source stylesheets will be made available on whatever server you're using,
and that their relative location will be the same as it is on the local
filesystem. If this isn't the case, you'll need to make a custom class that
extends {Sass::Importers::Base} or {Sass::Importers::Filesystem} and overrides
{Sass::Importers::Base#public_url #public_url}.
Thanks to Alexander Pavlov for implementing this.
@at-root
Sass 3.3 adds the @at-root directive, which is a way to tell Sass to
put a collection of rules at the top-level root of the document. The
easiest way to use it is with a selector:
.badge {
@at-root .info { ... }
@at-root .header { ... }
}
In addition to using @at-root on a single selector, you can also use it on a
whole block of them. For example:
.badge {
@at-root {
.info { ... }
.header { ... }
}
}
Also produces:
.info { ... }
.header { ... }
@at-root (without: ...) and @at-root (with: ...)
By default, @at-root just excludes selectors. However, it's also
possible to use @at-root to move outside of nested directives such
as @media as well. For example:
@media print {
.page {
width: 8in;
@at-root (without: media) {
color: red;
}
}
}
produces:
@media print {
.page {
width: 8in;
}
}
.page {
color: red;
}
You can use @at-root (without: ...) to move outside of any
directive. You can also do it with multiple directives separated by a
space: @at-root (without: media supports) moves outside of both
@media and @supports queries.
There are two special values you can pass to @at-root. "rule" refers
to normal CSS rules; @at-root (without: rule) is the same as
@at-root with no query. @at-root (without: all) means that the
styles should be moved outside of all directives and CSS rules.
If you want to specify which directives or rules to include, rather
than listing which ones should be excluded, you can use with instead
of without. For example, @at-root (with: rule) will move outside
of all directives, but will preserve any CSS rules.
Smaller Improvements
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The parent selector,
&, can be used with an identifier suffix. For example,&-suffixand&_suffixare now legal. The suffix will be added to the end of the parent selector, and will throw an error if this isn't possible.&must still appear at the beginning of a compound selector -- that is,.foo-&is still illegal. -
listen is no longer bundled with Sass, nor is it a standard RubyGems dependency. Instead, it's automatically installed along with Sass in order to ensure that the user ends up with a version of Listen that works with their local Ruby version.
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Sass now has numerous functions for working with strings: {Sass::Script::Functions#str_length
str-length} will return the length of a string; {Sass::Script::Functions#str_insertstr-insert} will insert one string into another; {Sass::Script::Functions#str_indexstr-index} will return the index of a substring within another string; {Sass::Script::Functions#str_slicestr-slice} will slice a substring from a string; {Sass::Script::Functions#to_upper_caseto-upper-case} will transform a string to upper case characters; and {Sass::Script::Functions#to_lower_caseto-lower-case} will transform a string to lower case characters. -
A {Sass::Script::Functions#list_separator
list-separator} function has been added to determine what separator a list uses. Thanks to Sam Richard. -
Custom Ruby functions can now access the global environment, which allows them the same power as Sass-based functions with respect to reading and setting variables defined elsewhere in the stylesheet.
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The
set-nth($list, $n, $value)function lets you construct a new list based on$list, with the nth element changed to the value specified. -
In order to make it easier for mixins to process maps, they may now recursively call themselves and one another. It is no longer an error to have a mixin
@includeloop. -
Add "grey" and "transparent" as recognized SassScript colors. Thanks to Rob Wierzbowski.
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Add a function {Sass::Script::Functions#unique_id
unique-id()} that will return a CSS identifier that is unique within the scope of a single CSS file. -
Allow negative indices into lists when using
nth(). -
You can now detect the presence of a Sass feature using the new function
feature-exists($feature-name). There are no detectable features in this release, this is provided so that subsequent releases can begin to use it. Additionally, plugins can now expose their functionality throughfeature-existsby callingSass.add_feature(feature_name). Features exposed by plugins must begin with a dash to distinguish them from official features. -
It is now possible to determine the existence of different Sass constructs using these new functions:
variable-exists($name)checks if a variable resolves in the current scope.global-variable-exists($name)checks if a global variable of the given name exists.function-exists($name)checks if a function exists.mixin-exists($name)checks if a mixin exists.
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You can call a function by name by passing the function name to the call function. For example,
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Comments following selectors in the indented syntax will be correctly converted using
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@eachnow supports "multiple assignment", which makes it easier to iterate over lists of lists. If you write@each $var1, $var2, $var3 in a b c, d e f, g h i, the elements of the sub-lists will be assigned individually to the variables.$var1,$var2, and$var3will bea,bandc; thend,e, andf; and theng,h, andi. For more information, see {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#each-multi-assign the@eachreference}. -
@forloops can now go downward as well as upward. For example,@for $var from 5 through 1will set$varto5,4,3,2, and1. Thanks to Robin Roestenburg. -
There is a new {Sass::Script::Value::Helpers convenience API} for creating Sass values from within ruby extensions.
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The
if()function now only evaluates the argument corresponding to the value of the first argument. -
Comma-separated lists may now have trailing commas (e.g.
1, 2, 3,). This also allows you to use a trailing comma to distinguish a list with a single element from that element itself -- for example,(1,)is explicitly a list containing the value1. -
All directives that are nested in CSS rules or properties and that contain more CSS rules or properties are now bubbled up through their parent rules.
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A new
random()function returns a random number. -
A new function inspect($value) is provided for debugging the current sass representation of a value.
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The
@debugdirective now automatically inspects sass objects that are not strings. -
Numbers will no longer be emitted in scientific notation.
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sass-convertwill now correctly handle silent (//-style) comments contained within loud (/* */-style) comments. -
Allow modulo arithmetic for numbers with compatible units. Thanks to Isaac Devine.
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Keyword arguments to mixins and functions that contain hyphens will have the hyphens preserved when using
sass-convert.
Backwards Incompatibilities -- Must Read!
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Sass will now throw an error when
@extendis used to extend a selector outside the@mediacontext of the extending selector. This means the following will be an error:@media screen { .foo { @extend .bar; } } .bar { color: blue; } -
Sass will now throw an error when an
@extendthat has no effect is used. The!optionalflag may be used to avoid this behavior for a single@extend. -
Sass will now throw an error when it encounters a single
@importstatement that tries to import more than one file. For example, if you have@import "screen"and bothscreen.scssand_screen.scssexist, a warning will be printed. -
greyandtransparentare no longer interpreted as strings; they're now interpreted as colors, as per the CSS spec. -
The automatic placement of the current working directory onto the Sass load path is now deprecated as this causes unpredictable build processes. If you need the current working directory to be available, set
SASS_PATH=.in your shell's environment. -
Sass::Compiler.on_updating_stylesheethas been removed. -
Sass::Plugin.options=has been removed. -
Sass::Script::Number::PRECISIONhas been removed. -
The methods in the
Sass::Utilmodule can no longer be used by including it. They must be invoked on the module itself for performance reasons. -
Sass values have always been immutable. The ruby object that backs each sass value is now "frozen" to prevent accidental modification and for performance.
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Many classes in the {Sass::Script} have been rearranged. All the value classes have been moved into {Sass::Script::Value} (e.g. {Sass::Script::Value::Color}, {Sass::Script::Value::String}, etc). Their base class is now {Sass::Script::Value::Base} instead of
Sass::Script::Literal. All the parse tree classes have been moved into {Sass::Script::Tree} (e.g. {Sass::Script::Tree::Node}, {Sass::Script::Tree::Operation}, etc).The old names will continue to work for the next couple releases, but they will be removed eventually. Any code using them should upgrade to the new names.
-
As part of a migration to cleaner variable semantics, assigning to global variables in a local context by default is deprecated. If there's a global variable named
$colorand you write$color: bluewithin a CSS rule, Sass will now print a warning; in the future, it will create a new local variable named$color. You may now explicitly assign to global variables using the!globalflag; for example,$color: blue !globalwill always assign to the global$colorvariable. -
Two numbers separated by a hyphen with no whitespace will now be parsed as a subtraction operation rather than two numbers in a list. That is,
2px-1pxwill parse the same as2px - 1pxrather than2px -1px. -
index()'sfalsereturn value when a value isn't found is deprecated. In future Sass releases it will benullinstead, so it should be used in ways that are compatible with bothfalseandnull. -
mix()'s arguments are now$color1and$color2rather than$color-1and$color-2, in keeping with other functions. -
comparable()'s arguments are now$number1and$number2rather than$number-1and$number-2, in keeping with other functions. -
percentage(),round(),ceil(),floor(), andabs()now take arguments named '$number' instead of '$value'.
3.2.16 (17 March 2014)
- Handle a race condition in the filesystem cache store when a cache entry becomes invalidated.
3.2.15 (7 March 2014)
- Support
&.foowhen the parent selector has a newline followed by a comma.
3.2.14 (24 January 2014)
-
Don't crash when parsing a directive with no name in the indented syntax.
-
Clean up file paths when importing to avoid errors for overlong path names.
-
Parse calls to functions named
true,false, andnullas function calls. -
Don't move CSS
@imports to the top of the file unless it's necessary.
3.2.13 (19 December 2013)
-
Numbers returned by user-defined functions now trigger division, just like numbers stored in variables.
-
Support importing files in paths with open brackets.
-
Fix
sass-convert's handling of rules with empty bodies when converting from CSS. -
Fix CSS imports using
url()with a quoted string and media queries.
3.2.12 (4 October 2013)
-
Add a couple missing
requires, fixing some load errors, especially when using the command-line interface. -
Tune up some heuristics for eliminating redundant generated selectors. This will prevent some selector elimination in cases where multi-layered
@extendis being used and where it seems intuitively like selectors shouldn't be eliminated.
3.2.11 (27 September 2013)
-
Fix
@extend's semantics with respect to pseudo-elements. They are no longer treated identically to pseudo-classes. -
A more understandable error is now provided when the
-Eoption is passed to the Sass command line in ruby 1.8 -
Fixed a bug in the output of lists containing unary plus or minus operations during sass <=> scss conversion.
-
Avoid the IE7
content: counterbug withcontent: countersas well. -
Fix some thread-safety issues.
3.2.10 (26 July 2013)
-
Use the Sass logger infrastructure for
@debugdirectives. -
When printing a Sass error into a CSS comment, escape
*/so the comment doesn't end prematurely. -
Preserve the
!in/*! ... */-style comments. -
Fix a bug where selectors were being incorrectly trimmed when using
@extend. -
Fix a bug where
sass --unix-newlinesandsass-convert --in-placeare not working on Windows (thanks SATO Kentaro).
3.2.9 (10 May 2013)
-
Fix a bug where
@extends would occasionally cause a selector to be generated with the incorrect specificity. -
Avoid loading listen v1.0, even if it's installed as a Gem (see issue 719).
-
Update the bundled version of listen to 0.7.3.
-
Automatically avoid the IE7
content: counterbug.
3.2.8 (22 April 2013)
-
Fix some edge cases where redundant selectors were emitted when using
@extend. -
Fix a bug where comma-separated lists with interpolation could lose elements.
-
Fix a bug in
sass-convertwhere lists being passed as arguments to functions or mixins would lose their surrounding parentheses. -
Fix a bug in
sass-convertwherenullwasn't being converted correctly. -
Fix a bug where multiple spaces in a string literal would sometimes be folded together.
-
sassandsass-convertwon't create an empty file before writing to it. This fixes a flash of unstyled content when using LiveReload and similar tools. -
Fix a case where a corrupted cache could produce fatal errors on some versions of Ruby.
-
Fix a case where a mixin loop error would be incorrectly reported when using
@content.
3.2.7 (8 March 2013)
-
The {Sass::Script::Functions#index
index} and {Sass::Script::Functions#zipzip} functions now work like all other list functions and treat individual values as single-element lists. -
Avoid stack overflow errors caused by very long function or mixin argument lists.
-
Emit relative paths when using the
--line-commentsflag of thesassexecutable. -
Fix a case where very long numbers would cause the SCSS parser to take exponential time.
3.2.6 (22 February 2013)
-
Support for Rubinius 2.0.0.rc1. All tests pass in 1.8 mode. 1.9 mode has some tests blocked on Rubinius issue 2139.
-
Support for JRuby 1.7.2.
-
Support for symlinked executables. Thanks to Yin-So Chen.
-
Support for bubbling
@supportsqueries in the indented syntax. -
Fix an incorrect warning when using
@extendfrom within nested@mediaqueries. -
Update the bundled version of listen to 0.7.2.
3.2.5 (4 January 2013)
-
Fix a bug where bogus
@extendwarnings were being generated. -
Fix an
@importbug on Windows. Thanks to Darryl Miles. -
Ruby 2.0.0-preview compatibility. Thanks to Eric Saxby.
-
Fix incorrect line numbering when using DOS line endings with the indented syntax.
3.2.4 (21 December 2012)
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Fix imports from
.jarfiles in JRuby. Thanks to Alex Hvostov. -
Allow comments within
@importstatements in SCSS. -
Fix a parsing performance bug where long decimals would occasionally take many minutes to parse.
3.2.3 (9 November 2012)
-
sass --watchno longer crashs when a file in a watched directory is deleted. -
Allow
@extendwithin bubbling nodes such as@media. -
Fix various JRuby incompatibilities and test failures.
-
Work around a performance bug that arises from using
@extendwith deeply-nested selectors.
3.2.2 (2 November 2012)
-
Add a
--polloption to forcesass --watchto use the polling backend to Listen. -
Fix some error reporting bugs related to
@import. -
Treat protocol-relative URLs in
@imports as static URLs, just likehttpandhttpsURLs. -
Improve the error message for misplaced simple selectors.
-
Fix an option-handling bug that was causing errors with the Compass URL helpers.
-
Fix a performance issue with
@importthat only appears when ActiveSupport is loaded. -
Fix flushing of actions to stdout. Thanks to Russell Davis.
-
Fix the documentation for the
max()function. -
Fix a
@mediaparsing bug.
Deprecations -- Must Read!
- Sass will now print a warning when it encounters a single
@importstatement that tries to import more than one file. For example, if you have@import "screen"and bothscreen.scssand_screen.scssexist, a warning will be printed. This will become an error in future versions of Sass.
3.2.1 (15 August 2012)
- Fix a buggy interaction with Pow and Capybara that caused
EOFErrors.
3.2.0 (10 August 2012)
@content
A mixin include can now accept a block of content ({file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#mixin-content Reference Documentation}). The style block will be passed to the mixin and can be placed at the point @content is used. E.g.:
@mixin iphone {
@media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
@content;
}
}
@include iphone {
body { color: red }
}
Or in .sass syntax:
=iphone
@media only screen and (max-width: 480px)
@content
+iphone
body
color: red
Produces:
@media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
body { color: red }
}
Note that the contents passed to the mixin are evaluated in the scope they are used, not the scope of the mixin. {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#variable_scope_and_content_blocks More on variable scoping.}
Placeholder Selectors: %foo
Sass supports a new, special type of selector called a "placeholder selector".
These look like class and id selectors, except the # or . is replaced by %.
They're meant to be used with the {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#extend @extend directive},
when you want to write styles to be extended
but you don't want the base styles to appear in the CSS.
On its own, a placeholder selector just causes a ruleset not to be rendered. For example:
// This ruleset won't be rendered on its own.
#context a%extreme {
color: blue;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 2em;
}
However, placeholder selectors can be extended, just like classes and ids. The extended selectors will be generated, but the base placeholder selector will not. For example:
.notice { @extend %extreme; }
Is compiled to:
#context a.notice {
color: blue;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 2em;
}
Variable Arguments
Mixins and functions now both support variable arguments. When defining a mixin
or function, you can add ... after the final argument to have it accept an
unbounded number of arguments and package them into a list. When calling a mixin
or function, you can add ... to expand the final argument (if it's a list) so
that each value is passed as a separate argument. For example:
@mixin box-shadow($shadows...) {
// $shadows is a list of all arguments passed to box-shadow
-moz-box-shadow: $shadows;
-webkit-box-shadow: $shadows;
box-shadow: $shadows;
}
// This is the same as "@include spacing(1, 2, 3);"
$values: 1, 2, 3;
@include spacing($values...);
Finally, if a variable argument list is passed directly on to another mixin or function, it will also pass along any keyword arguments. This means that you can wrap a pre-existing mixin or function and add new functionality without changing the call signature.
Directive Interpolation
#{} interpolation is now allowed in all plain CSS directives
(such as @font-face, @keyframes, and of course @media).
In addition, @media gets some special treatment.
In addition to allowing #{} interpolation,
expressions may be used directly in media feature queries.
This means that you can write e.g.:
$media: screen;
$feature: -webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio;
$value: 1.5;
@media #{$media} and ($feature: $value) {
...
}
This is intended to allow authors to easily write mixins
that make use of @media and other directives dynamically.
Smaller Improvements
-
Mixins and functions may now be defined in a nested context, for example within
@mediarules. This also allows files containing them to be imported in such contexts. -
Previously, only the
:-moz-anyselector was supported; this has been expanded to support any vendor prefix, as well as the plain:anyselector. -
All proposed CSS4 selectors are now supported, including reference selectors (e.g.
.foo /attr/ .bar) and subject selectors (e.g..foo!). -
Sass now supports a global list of load paths, accessible via {Sass.load_paths}. This allows plugins and libraries to easily register their Sass files such that they're accessible to all {Sass::Engine} instances.
-
Sass.load_pathsis initialized to the value of theSASS_PATHenvironment variable. This variable should contain a colon-separated list of load paths (semicolon-separated on Windows). -
In certain cases, redundant selectors used to be created as a result of a single rule having multiple
@extends. That redundancy has been eliminated. -
Redundant selectors were also sometimes created by nested selectors using
@extend. That redundancy has been eliminated as well. -
There is now much more comprehensive support for using
@extendalongside CSS3 selector combinators (+,~, and>). These combinators will now be merged as much as possible. -
The full set of extended color keywords are now supported by Sass. They may be used to refer to color objects, and colors will render using those color names when appropriate.
-
Sass 3.2 adds the {Sass::Script::Functions#ie_hex_str
ie-hex-str} function which returns a hex string for a color suitable for use with IE filters. -
Sass 3.2 adds the {Sass::Script::Functions#min
min} and {Sass::Script::Functions#maxmax} functions, which return the minimum and maximum of several values. -
Sass functions are now more strict about how keyword arguments can be passed.
-
Decimal numbers now default to five digits of precision after the decimal point.
-
The {Sass::Script::Functions::EvaluationContext#options options hash} available to Sass functions now contains the filename of the file that the function was executed in, rather than the top-level file.
Backwards Incompatibilities -- Must Read!
@extend Warnings
Any @extend that doesn't match any selectors in the document will now print a
warning. These warnings will become errors in future versions of Sass. This will
help protect against typos and make it clearer why broken styles aren't working.
For example:
h1.notice {color: red}
a.important {@extend .notice}
This will print a warning, since the only use of .notice can't be merged with
a.
You can declare that you don't want warnings for a specific @extend by using
the !optional flag. For example:
h1.notice {color: red}
a.important {@extend .notice !optional}
This will not print a warning.
Smaller Incompatibilities
-
Parent selectors followed immediately by identifiers (e.g.
&foo) are fully disallowed. They were deprecated in 3.1.8. -
#{}interpolation is now allowed in all comments. -
The
!flag may not be used with//comments (e.g.//!). -
#{}interpolation is now disallowed in all@importstatements except for those usingurl(). -
sass-convertno longer supports converting files from LessCSS.
3.1.21 (10 August 2012)
- Preserve single-line comments that are embedded within multi-line comments.
- Preserve newlines in nested selectors when those selectors are used multiple times in the same document.
- Allow tests to be run without the
LANGenvironment variable set. - Update the bundled version of Listen to 0.4.7.
- Sass will now convert
pxto other absolute units using the conversion ratio of96px == 1inas dictated by the CSS Spec
3.1.20
- Don't crash if a UTF encoding isn't found. Thanks to Andrew Garbutt.
- Properly watch files recursively with
sass --watch. Thanks to Sébastien Tisserant. - Fix the documentation for the {Sass::Script::Functions#append append()} function.
- Support the
saturate(),opacity(), andinvert()functions when used as in the Filter Effects spec. - Support MacRuby. Thanks to Will Glynn.
3.1.19
- Fix an
uninitialized constant Sass::Exec::Sass::Utilerror when using the command-line tool. - Allow
@extendwithin directives such as@mediaas long as it only extends selectors that are within the same directive.
3.1.18
- Ruby 2.0 compatibility. Thanks to Jeremy Kemper.
Deprecations -- Must Read!
- Deprecate the use of
@extendwithin directives such as@media. This has never worked correctly, and now it's officially deprecated. It will be an error in 3.2.
3.1.17
- Don't crash when calling
#inspecton an internal Sass tree object in Ruby 1.9. - Fix some bugs in
sass --watchintroduced in 3.1.16. Thanks to Maher Sallam. - Support bare interpolation in the value portion of attribute
selectors (e.g.
[name=#{$value}]). - Support keyword arguments for the
invert()function. - Handle backslash-separated paths better on Windows.
- Fix
rake installon Ruby 1.9. - Properly convert nested
@ifstatements withsass-convert.
3.1.16
- Fix some bugs in
sass-convertselector parsing when converting from CSS. - Substantially improve compilation performance on Ruby 1.8.
- Support the
@-moz-documentdirective's non-standardurl-prefixanddomainfunction syntax. - Support the
@supportsdirective. - Fix a performance issue when using
/*! */comments with the Rails asset pipeline. - Support
-moz-element. - Properly handle empty lists in
sass-convert. - Move from FSSM to Listen for file-system monitoring.
3.1.15
- Support extending multiple comma-separated selectors (e.g.
@extend .foo, .bar). This is just a terser way to write multiple@extends (e.g.@extend .foo; @extend .bar). This wasn't previously intended to work, but it did in the indented syntax only. - Avoid more stack overflows when there are import loops in files.
- Update the bundled FSSM to version 0.2.8.1.
- Make the
grayscalefunction work with-webkit-filter. - Provide a better error message for selectors beginning with
/in the indented syntax. - Flush standard output after printing notifications in
sass --watch. - Fix variable definitions in the REPL.
3.1.14
- Fix a typo that was causing crashes on Ruby 1.9.
3.1.13
- Fix a smattering of subtle bugs that would crop up when using multibyte character sets.
- Fix a bug when using
@extendwith selectors containing newlines. - Make boolean operators short-circuit.
- Remove unnecessary whitespace in selectors in
:compressedmode. - Don't output debug info within non-
@mediadirectives. - Make sure
:afterand:beforeselectors end up on the end of selectors resulting from@extend. - Fix a bug when using imports containing invalid path characters on Windows.
- Bubble CSS
@importstatements to the top of stylesheets.
3.1.12
- Compatibility with the
mathnlibrary (thanks to Thomas Walpole). - Fix some infinite loops with mixins that were previously uncaught.
- Catch infinite
@importloops. - Fix a deprecation warning in
sass --updateand--watch(thanks to Marcel Köppen). - Don't make
$importanta special pre-initialized variable. - Fix exponential parsing time of certain complex property values and selectors.
- Properly merge
@mediadirectives with comma-separated queries. E.g.@media foo, bar { @media baz { ... } }now becomes@media foo and baz, bar and baz { ... }.
3.1.11
- Allow control directives (such as
@if) to be nested beneath properties. - Allow property names to begin with a hyphen followed by interpolation (e.g.
-#{...}). - Fix a parsing error with interpolation in comma-separated lists.
- Make
--cache-storewith with--update. - Properly report
ArgumentErrors that occur within user-defined functions. - Don't crash on JRuby if the underlying Java doesn't support every Unicode encoding.
- Add new
updated_stylesheetcallback, which is run after each stylesheet has been successfully compiled. Thanks to Christian Peters. - Allow absolute paths to be used in an importer with a different root.
- Don't destructively modify the options when running
Sass::Plugin.force_update. - Prevent Regexp buffer overflows when parsing long strings (thanks to Agworld.
Deprecations -- Must Read!
- The
updating_stylesheetis deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use the newupdated_stylesheetcallback instead.
3.1.10
- Fix another aspect of the 3.1.8 regression relating to
+.
3.1.9
-
Fix a regression in 3.1.8 that broke the
+combinator in selectors. -
Deprecate the loud-comment flag when used with silent comments (e.g.
//!). Using it with multi-line comments (e.g./*!) still works.
3.1.8
-
Deprecate parent selectors followed immediately by identifiers (e.g.
&foo). This should never have worked, since it violates the rule of&only being usable where an element selector would. -
Add a
--forceoption to thesassexecutable which makes--updatealways compile all stylesheets, even if the CSS is newer. -
Disallow semicolons at the end of
@importdirectives in the indented syntax. -
Don't error out when being used as a library without requiring
fileutil. -
Don't crash when Compass-style sprite imports are used with
StalenessChecker(thanks to Matthias Bauer). -
The numeric precision of numbers in Sass can now be set using the
--precisionoption to the command line. Additionally, the default number of digits of precision in Sass output can now be changed by settingSass::Script::Number.precisionto an integer (defaults to 3). Since this value can now be changed, thePRECISIONconstant inSass::Script::Numberhas been deprecated. In the unlikely event that you were using it in your code, you should now useSass::Script::Number.precision_factorinstead. -
Don't crash when running
sass-convertwith selectors with two commas in a row. -
Explicitly require Ruby >= 1.8.7 (thanks Eric Mason).
-
Properly validate the nesting of elements in imported stylesheets.
-
Properly compile files in parent directories with
--watchand--update. -
Properly null out options in mixin definitions before caching them. This fixes a caching bug that has been plaguing some Rails 3.1 users.
3.1.7
- Don't crash when doing certain operations with
@functions.
3.1.6
-
The option
:trace_selectorscan now be used to emit a full trace before each selector. This can be helpful for in-browser debugging of stylesheet imports and mixin includes. This option supersedes the:line_commentsoption and is superseded by the:debug_infooption. -
Fix a bug where long
@if/@elsechains would cause exponential slowdown under some circumstances.
3.1.5
- Updated the vendored FSSM version, which will avoid segfaults on OS
X Lion when using
--watch.
3.1.4
- Sass no longer unnecessarily caches the sass options hash. This allows objects that cannot be marshaled to be placed into the options hash.
3.1.3
- Sass now logs message thru a logger object which can be changed to provide integration with other frameworks' logging infrastructure.
3.1.2
- Fix some issues that were breaking Sass when running within Rubinius.
- Fix some issues that were affecting Rails 3.1 integration.
- New function
zipallows several lists to be combined into one list of lists. For example:zip(1px 1px 3px, solid dashed solid, red green blue)becomes1px solid red, 1px dashed green, 3px solid blue - New function
indexreturns the list index of a value within a list. For example:index(1px solid red, solid)returns2. When the value is not foundfalseis returned.
3.1.1
- Make sure
Sass::Pluginis loaded at the correct time in Rails 3.
3.1.0
-
Add an {Sass::Script::Functions#invert
invertfunction} that takes the inverse of colors. -
A new sass function called
ifcan be used to emit one of two values based on the truth value of the first argument. For example,if(true, 1px, 2px)returns1pxandif(false, 1px, 2px)returns2px. -
Compass users can now use the
--compassflag to make the Compass libraries available for import. This will also load the Compass project configuration if run from the project root. -
Many performance optimizations have been made by thedarkone.
-
Allow selectors to contain extra commas to make them easier to modify. Extra commas will be removed when the selectors are converted to CSS.
-
@importmay now be used within CSS or@mediarules. The imported file will be treated as though it were nested within the rule. Files with mixins may not be imported in nested contexts. -
If a comment starts with
!, that comment will now be interpolated (#{...}will be replaced with the resulting value of the expression inside) and the comment will always be printed out in the generated CSS file -- even with compressed output. This is useful for adding copyright notices to your stylesheets. -
A new executable named
scssis now available. It is exactly like thesassexecutable except it defaults to assuming input is in the SCSS syntax. Both programs will use the source file's extension to determine the syntax where possible.
Sass-based Functions
While it has always been possible to add functions to Sass with Ruby, this release adds the ability to define new functions within Sass files directly. For example:
$grid-width: 40px;
$gutter-width: 10px;
@function grid-width($n) {
@return $n * $grid-width + ($n - 1) * $gutter-width;
}
#sidebar { width: grid-width(5); }
Becomes:
#sidebar {
width: 240px; }
Keyword Arguments
Both mixins and Sass functions now support the ability to pass in keyword arguments. For example, with mixins:
@mixin border-radius($value, $moz: true, $webkit: true, $css3: true) {
@if $moz { -moz-border-radius: $value }
@if $webkit { -webkit-border-radius: $value }
@if $css3 { border-radius: $value }
}
@include border-radius(10px, $webkit: false);
And with functions:
p {
color: hsl($hue: 180, $saturation: 78%, $lightness: 57%);
}
Keyword arguments are of the form $name: value and come after normal arguments.
They can be used for either optional or required arguments.
For mixins, the names are the same as the argument names for the mixins.
For functions, the names are defined along with the functions.
The argument names for the built-in functions are listed
{Sass::Script::Functions in the function documentation}.
Sass functions defined in Ruby can use the {Sass::Script::Functions.declare} method to declare the names of the arguments they take.
New Keyword Functions
The new keyword argument functionality enables new Sass color functions that use keywords to encompass a large amount of functionality in one function.
-
The {Sass::Script::Functions#adjust_color adjust-color} function works like the old
lighten,saturate, andadjust-huemethods. It increases and/or decreases the values of a color's properties by fixed amounts. For example,adjust-color($color, $lightness: 10%)is the same aslighten($color, 10%): it returns$colorwith its lightness increased by 10%. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#scale_color scale_color} function is similar to {Sass::Script::Functions#adjust_color adjust_color}, but instead of increasing and/or decreasing a color's properties by fixed amounts, it scales them fluidly by percentages. The closer the percentage is to 100% (or -100%), the closer the new property value will be to its maximum (or minimum). For example,
scale-color(hsl(120, 70, 80), $lightness: 50%)will change the lightness from 80% to 90%, because 90% is halfway between 80% and 100%. Similarly,scale-color(hsl(120, 70, 50), $lightness: 50%)will change the lightness from 50% to 75%. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#change_color change-color} function simply changes a color's properties regardless of their old values. For example
change-color($color, $lightness: 10%)returns$colorwith 10% lightness, andchange-color($color, $alpha: 0.7)returns color with opacity 0.7.
Each keyword function accepts $hue, $saturation, $value,
$red, $green, $blue, and $alpha keywords,
with the exception of scale-color() which doesn't accept $hue.
These keywords modify the respective properties of the given color.
Each keyword function can modify multiple properties at once.
For example, adjust-color($color, $lightness: 15%, $saturation: -10%)
both lightens and desaturates $color.
HSL properties cannot be modified at the same time as RGB properties, though.
Lists
Lists are now a first-class data type in Sass,
alongside strings, numbers, colors, and booleans.
They can be assigned to variables, passed to mixins,
and used in CSS declarations.
Just like the other data types (except booleans),
Sass lists look just like their CSS counterparts.
They can be separated either by spaces (e.g. 1px 2px 0 10px)
or by commas (e.g. Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif).
In addition, individual values count as single-item lists.
Lists won't behave any differently in Sass 3.1 than they did in 3.0. However, you can now do more with them using the new list functions:
-
The {Sass::Script::Functions#nth
nth($list, $n)function} returns the nth item in a list. For example,nth(1px 2px 10px, 2)returns the second item,2px. Note that lists in Sass start at 1, not at 0 like they do in some other languages. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#join
join($list1, $list2)function} joins together two lists into one. For example,join(1px 2px, 10px 5px)returns1px 2px 10px 5px. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#append
append($list, $val)function} appends values to the end of a list. For example,append(1px 2px, 10px)returns1px 2px 10px. -
The {Sass::Script::Functions#join
length($list)function} returns the length of a list. For example,length(1px 2px 10px 5px)returns4.
For more details about lists see {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#lists the reference}.
@each
There's also a new directive that makes use of lists.
The {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#each-directive @each directive} assigns a variable to each item in a list in turn,
like @for does for numbers.
This is useful for writing a bunch of similar styles
without having to go to the trouble of creating a mixin.
For example:
@each $animal in puma, sea-slug, egret, salamander {
.#{$animal}-icon {
background-image: url('/images/#{$animal}.png');
}
}
is compiled to:
.puma-icon {
background-image: url('/images/puma.png'); }
.sea-slug-icon {
background-image: url('/images/sea-slug.png'); }
.egret-icon {
background-image: url('/images/egret.png'); }
.salamander-icon {
background-image: url('/images/salamander.png'); }
@media Bubbling
Modern stylesheets often use @media rules to target styles
at certain sorts of devices, screen resolutions, or even orientations.
They're also useful for print and aural styling.
Unfortunately, it's annoying and repetitive to break the flow of a stylesheet
and add a @media rule containing selectors you've already written
just to tweak the style a little.
Thus, Sass 3.1 now allows you to nest @media rules within selectors.
It will automatically bubble them up to the top level,
putting all the selectors on the way inside the rule.
For example:
.sidebar {
width: 300px;
@media screen and (orientation: landscape) {
width: 500px;
}
}
is compiled to:
.sidebar {
width: 300px;
}
@media screen and (orientation: landscape) {
.sidebar {
width: 500px;
}
}
You can also nest @media directives within one another.
The queries will then be combined using the and operator.
For example:
@media screen {
.sidebar {
@media (orientation: landscape) {
width: 500px;
}
}
}
is compiled to:
@media screen and (orientation: landscape) {
.sidebar {
width: 500px;
}
}
Nested @import
The @import statement can now be nested within other structures
such as CSS rules and @media rules. For example:
@media print {
@import "print";
}
This imports print.scss and places all rules so imported within the @media print block.
This makes it easier to create stylesheets for specific media or sections of the document
and distributing those stylesheets across multiple files.
Backwards Incompatibilities -- Must Read!
-
When
@importis given a path without.sass,.scss, or.cssextension, and no file exists at that path, it will now throw an error. The old behavior of becoming a plain-CSS@importwas deprecated and has now been removed. -
Get rid of the
--railsflag for thesassexecutable. This flag hasn't been necessary since Rails 2.0. Existing Rails 2.0 installations will continue to work. -
Removed deprecated support for ! prefixed variables. Use $ to prefix variables now.
-
Removed the deprecated css2sass executable. Use sass-convert now.
-
Removed support for the equals operator in variable assignment. Use : now.
-
Removed the sass2 mode from sass-convert. Users who have to migrate from sass2 should install Sass 3.0 and quiet all deprecation warnings before installing Sass 3.1.
Sass Internals
-
It is now possible to define a custom importer that can be used to find imports using different import semantics than the default filesystem importer that Sass provides. For instance, you can use this to generate imports on the fly, look them up from a database, or implement different file naming conventions. See the {Sass::Importers::Base Importer Base class} for more information.
-
It is now possible to define a custom cache store to allow for efficient caching of Sass files using alternative cache stores like memcached in environments where a writable filesystem is not available or where the cache need to be shared across many servers for dynamically generated stylesheet environments. See the {Sass::CacheStores::Base CacheStore Base class} for more information.
3.0.26 (Unreleased)
-
Fix a performance bug in large SCSS stylesheets with many nested selectors. This should dramatically decrease compilation time of such stylesheets.
-
Upgrade the bundled FSSM to version 0.2.3. This means
sass --watchwill work out of the box with Rubinius.
3.0.25
-
When displaying a Sass error in an imported stylesheet, use the imported stylesheet's contents rather than the top-level stylesheet.
-
Fix a bug that caused some lines with non-ASCII characters to be ignored in Ruby 1.8.
-
Fix a bug where boolean operators (
and,or, andnot) wouldn't work at the end of a line in a multiline SassScript expression. -
When using
sass --update, only update individual files when they've changed.
3.0.24
-
Raise an error when
@elseappears without an@ifin SCSS. -
Fix some cases where
@ifrules were causing the line numbers in error reports to become incorrect.
3.0.23
- Fix the error message for unloadable modules when running the executables under Ruby 1.9.2.
@charset Change
The behavior of @charset has changed in version 3.0.23
in order to work around a bug in Safari,
where @charset declarations placed anywhere other than the beginning of the document
cause some CSS rules to be ignored.
This change also makes @charsets in imported files behave in a more useful way.
Ruby 1.9
When using Ruby 1.9, which keeps track of the character encoding of the Sass document internally,
@charset directive in the Sass stylesheet and any stylesheets it imports
are no longer directly output to the generated CSS.
They're still used for determining the encoding of the input and output stylesheets,
but they aren't rendered in the same way other directives are.
Instead, Sass adds a single @charset directive at the beginning of the output stylesheet
if necessary, whether or not the input stylesheet had a @charset directive.
It will add this directive if and only if the output stylesheet contains non-ASCII characters.
By default, the declared charset will be UTF-8,
but if the Sass stylesheet declares a different charset then that will be used instead if possible.
One important consequence of this scheme is that it's possible for a Sass file to import partials with different encodings (e.g. one encoded as UTF-8 and one as IBM866). The output will then be UTF-8, unless the importing stylesheet declares a different charset.
Ruby 1.8
Ruby 1.8 doesn't have good support for encodings, so it uses a simpler but less accurate
scheme for figuring out what @charset declaration to use for the output stylesheet.
It just takes the first @charset declaration to appear in the stylesheet
or any of its imports and moves it to the beginning of the document.
This means that under Ruby 1.8 it's not safe to import files with different encodings.
3.0.22
-
Remove
vendor/sass, which snuck into the gem by mistake and was causing trouble for Heroku users (thanks to Jacques Crocker). -
sass-convertnow understands better when it's acceptable to remove parentheses from expressions.
3.0.21
-
Fix the permissions errors for good.
-
Fix more
#optionsattribute errors.
3.0.20
-
Fix some permissions errors.
-
Fix
#optionsattribute errors when CSS functions were used with commas.
3.0.19
-
Make the alpha value for
rgbacolors respect {Sass::Script::Value::Number.precision}. -
Remove all newlines in selectors in
:compressedmode. -
Make color names case-insensitive.
-
Properly detect SCSS files when using
sass -c. -
Remove spaces after commas in
:compressedmode. -
Allow the
--unix-newlinesflag to work on Unix, where it's a no-op.
3.0.18
-
Don't require
rakein the gemspec, for bundler compatibility under JRuby. Thanks to Gordon McCreight. -
Add a command-line option
--stop-on-errorthat causes Sass to exit when a file fails to compile using--watchor--update. -
Fix a bug in
haml_tagthat would allow duplicate attributes to be added and makedata-attributes not work. -
Get rid of the annoying RDoc errors on install.
-
Disambiguate references to the
Railsmodule whenhaml-railsis installed. -
Allow
@importin SCSS to import multiple files in the same@importrule.
3.0.17
-
Disallow
#{}interpolation in@mediaqueries or unrecognized directives. This was never allowed, but now it explicitly throws an error rather than just producing invalid CSS. -
Make
sass --watchnot throw an error when passed a single file or directory. -
Understand that mingw counts as Windows.
-
Make
sass --updatereturn a non-0 exit code if one or more files being updated contained an error.
3.0.16
-
Fix a bug where certain sorts of comments would get improperly rendered in the
:compactstyle. -
Always allow a trailing
*/in loud comments in the indented syntax. -
Fix a performance issue with SCSS parsing in rare cases. Thanks to Chris Eppstein.
-
Use better heuristics for figuring out when someone might be using the wrong syntax with
sass --watch.
3.0.15
-
Fix a bug where
sass --watchandsass --updatewere completely broken. -
Allow
@imported values to contain commas.
3.0.14
-
Properly parse paths with drive letters on Windows (e.g.
C:\Foo\Bar.sass) in the Sass executable. -
Compile Sass files in a deterministic order.
-
Fix a bug where comments after
@ifstatements in SCSS weren't getting passed through to the output document.
3.0.13
CSS @import Directives
Sass is now more intelligent about when to compile @import directives to plain CSS.
Any of the following conditions will cause a literal CSS @import:
- Importing a path with a
.cssextension (e.g.@import "foo.css"). - Importing a path with a media type (e.g.
@import "foo" screen;). - Importing an HTTP path (e.g.
@import "http://foo.com/style.css"). - Importing any URL (e.g.
@import url(foo)).
The former two conditions always worked, but the latter two are new.
-moz-calc Support
The new -moz-calc() function in Firefox 4
will now be properly parsed by Sass.
calc() was already supported, but because the parsing rules are different
than for normal CSS functions, this had to be expanded to include -moz-calc.
In anticipation of wider browser support, in fact,
any function named -*-calc (such as -webkit-calc or -ms-calc)
will be parsed the same as the calc function.
:-moz-any Support
The :-moz-any pseudoclass selector
is now parsed by Sass.
--require Flag
The Sass command-line executable can now require Ruby files
using the --require flag (or -r for short).
Rails Support
Make sure the default Rails options take precedence over the default non-Rails options.
This makes ./script/server --daemon work again.
Rails 3 Support
Support for Rails 3 versions prior to beta 4 has been removed. Upgrade to Rails 3.0.0.beta4 if you haven't already.
3.0.12
Rails 3 Support
Apparently the last version broke in new and exciting ways under Rails 3, due to the inconsistent load order caused by certain combinations of gems. 3.0.12 hacks around that inconsistency, and should be fully Rails 3-compatible.
Deprecated: Rails 3 Beta 3
Haml's support for Rails 3.0.0.beta.3 has been deprecated. Haml 3.0.13 will only support 3.0.0.beta.4.
3.0.11
There were no changes made to Haml between versions 3.0.10 and 3.0.11.
Rails 3 Support
Make sure Sass actually regenerates stylesheets under Rails 3. The fix in 3.0.10 didn't work because the Rack stack we were modifying wasn't reloaded at the proper time.
Bug Fixes
- Give a decent error message when
--recursiveis used insass-convertwithout a directory.
3.0.10
Appengine-JRuby Support
The way we determine the location of the Haml installation
no longer breaks the version of JRuby
used by appengine-jruby.
Rails 3 Support
Sass will regenerate stylesheets under Rails 3 even when no controllers are being accessed.
Other Improvements
- When using
sass-convert --from sass2 --to sass --recursive, suggest the use of--in-placeas well.
3.0.9
There were no changes made to Sass between versions 3.0.8 and 3.0.9. A bug in Gemcutter caused the gem to be uploaded improperly.
3.0.8
- Fix a bug with Rails versions prior to Rails 3.
3.0.7
Encoding Support
Sass 3.0.7 adds support for @charset for declaring the encoding of a stylesheet.
For details see {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#encodings the reference}.
The sass and sass-convert executables also now take an -E option
for specifying the encoding of Sass/SCSS/CSS files.
Bug Fixes
-
When compiling a file named
.sassbut with SCSS syntax specified, use the latter (and vice versa). -
Fix a bug where interpolation would cause some selectors to render improperly.
-
If a line in a Sass comment starts with
*foo, render it as*foorather than* *foo.
3.0.6
There were no changes made to Sass between versions 3.0.5 and 3.0.6.
3.0.5
#{} Interpolation in Properties
Previously, using #{} in some places in properties
would cause a syntax error.
Now it can be used just about anywhere.
Note that when #{} is used near operators like /,
those operators are treated as plain CSS
rather than math operators.
For example:
p {
$font-size: 12px;
$line-height: 30px;
font: #{$font-size}/#{$line-height};
}
is compiled to:
p {
font: 12px/30px;
}
This is useful, since normally {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#division-and-slash a slash with variables is treated as division}.
Recursive Mixins
Mixins that include themselves will now print much more informative error messages. For example:
@mixin foo {@include bar}
@mixin bar {@include foo}
@include foo
will print:
An @include loop has been found:
foo includes bar
bar includes foo
Although it was previously possible to use recursive mixins without causing infinite looping, this is now disallowed, since there's no good reason to do it.
Rails 3 Support
Fix Sass configuration under Rails 3. Thanks Dan Cheail.
sass --no-cache
Make the --no-cache flag properly forbid Sass from writing .sass-cache files.
3.0.4
-
Raise an informative error when function arguments have a mispaced comma, as in
foo(bar, ). -
Fix a performance problem when using long function names such as
-moz-linear-gradient.
3.0.3
Rails 3 Support
Make sure Sass is loaded properly when using Rails 3
along with non-Rails-3-compatible plugins like some versions of will_paginate.
Also, In order to make some Rails loading errors like the above easier to debug,
Sass will now raise an error if Rails.root is nil when Sass is loading.
Previously, this would just cause the paths to be mis-set.
Merb Support
Merb, including 1.1.0 as well as earlier versions, should really work with this release.
Bug Fixes
-
Raise an informative error when mixin arguments have a mispaced comma, as in
@include foo(bar, ). -
Make sure SassScript subtraction happens even when nothing else dynamic is going on.
-
Raise an error when colors are used with the wrong number of digits.
3.0.2
Merb 1.1.0 Support
Fixed a bug inserting the Sass plugin into the Merb 1.1.0 Rack application.
Bug Fixes
-
Allow identifiers to begin with multiple underscores.
-
Don't raise an error when using
haml --railswith older Rails versions.
3.0.1
Installation in Rails
haml --rails is no longer necessary for installing Sass in Rails.
Now all you need to do is add gem "haml" to the Gemfile for Rails 3,
or add config.gem "haml" to config/environment.rb for previous versions.
haml --rails will still work,
but it has been deprecated and will print an error message.
It will not work in the next version of Sass.
Rails 3 Beta Integration
-
Make sure manually importing the Sass Rack plugin still works with Rails, even though it's not necessary now.
-
Allow Sass to be configured in Rails even when it's being lazy-loaded.
:template_location Methods
The {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#template_location-option :template_location option}
can be either a String, a Hash, or an Array.
This makes it difficult to modify or use with confidence.
Thus, three new methods have been added for handling it:
-
{Sass::Plugin::Configuration#template_location_array Sass::Plugin#template_location_array} -- Returns the template locations and CSS locations formatted as an array.
-
{Sass::Plugin::Configuration#add_template_location Sass::Plugin#add_template_location} -- Converts the template location option to an array and adds a new location.
-
{Sass::Plugin::Configuration#remove_template_location Sass::Plugin#remove_template_location} -- Converts the template location option to an array and removes an existing location.
3.0.0
{#3-0-0}
Deprecations -- Must Read!
{#3-0-0-deprecations}
-
Using
=for SassScript properties and variables is deprecated, and will be removed in Sass 3.2. Use:instead. See also this changelog entry -
Because of the above, property values using
:will be parsed more thoroughly than they were before. Although all valid CSS3 properties as well as most hacks and proprietary syntax should be supported, it's possible that some properties will break. If this happens, please report it to the Sass mailing list. -
In addition, setting the default value of variables with
||=is now deprecated and will be removed in Sass 3.2. Instead, add!defaultto the end of the value. See also this changelog entry -
The
!prefix for variables is deprecated, and will be removed in Sass 3.2. Use$as a prefix instead. See also this changelog entry. -
The
css2sasscommand-line tool has been deprecated, and will be removed in Sass 3.2. Use the newsass-converttool instead. See also this changelog entry. -
Selector parent references using
&can now only be used where element names are valid. This is because Sass 3 fully parses selectors to support the new@extenddirective, and it's possible that the&could be replaced by an element name.
SCSS (Sassy CSS)
Sass 3 introduces a new syntax known as SCSS
which is fully compatible with the syntax of CSS3,
while still supporting the full power of Sass.
This means that every valid CSS3 stylesheet
is a valid SCSS file with the same meaning.
In addition, SCSS understands most CSS hacks
and vendor-specific syntax, such as IE's old filter syntax.
SCSS files use the .scss extension.
They can import .sass files, and vice-versa.
Their syntax is fully described in the {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md Sass reference};
if you're already familiar with Sass, though,
you may prefer the {file:SCSS_FOR_SASS_USERS.md intro to SCSS for Sass users}.
Since SCSS is a much more approachable syntax for those new to Sass, it will be used as the default syntax for the reference, as well as for most other Sass documentation. The indented syntax will continue to be fully supported, however.
Sass files can be converted to SCSS using the new sass-convert command-line tool.
For example:
# Convert a Sass file to SCSS
$ sass-convert style.sass style.scss
Note that if you're converting a Sass file written for Sass 2,
you should use the --from sass2 flag.
For example:
# Convert a Sass file to SCSS
$ sass-convert --from sass2 style.sass style.scss
# Convert all Sass files to SCSS
$ sass-convert --recursive --in-place --from sass2 --to scss stylesheets/
Syntax Changes
SassScript Context
{#3-0-0-sass-script-context}
The = character is no longer required for properties that use SassScript
(that is, variables and operations).
All properties now use SassScript automatically;
this means that : should be used instead.
Variables should also be set with :.
For example, what used to be
// Indented syntax
.page
color = 5px + 9px
should now be
// Indented syntax
.page
color: 5px + 9px
This means that SassScript is now an extension of the CSS3 property syntax.
All valid CSS3 properties are valid SassScript,
and will compile without modification
(some invalid properties work as well, such as Microsoft's proprietary filter syntax).
This entails a few changes to SassScript to make it fully CSS3-compatible,
which are detailed below.
This also means that Sass will now be fully parsing all property values, rather than passing them through unchanged to the CSS. Although care has been taken to support all valid CSS3, as well as hacks and proprietary syntax, it's possible that a property that worked in Sass 2 won't work in Sass 3. If this happens, please report it to the Sass mailing list.
Note that if = is used,
SassScript will be interpreted as backwards-compatibly as posssible.
In particular, the changes listed below don't apply in an = context.
The sass-convert command-line tool can be used
to upgrade Sass files to the new syntax using the --in-place flag.
For example:
# Upgrade style.sass:
$ sass-convert --in-place style.sass
# Upgrade all Sass files:
$ sass-convert --recursive --in-place --from sass2 --to sass stylesheets/
Quoted Strings
Quoted strings (e.g. "foo") in SassScript now render with quotes.
In addition, unquoted strings are no longer deprecated,
and render without quotes.
This means that almost all strings that had quotes in Sass 2
should not have quotes in Sass 3.
Although quoted strings render with quotes when used with :,
they do not render with quotes when used with #{}.
This allows quoted strings to be used for e.g. selectors
that are passed to mixins.
Strings can be forced to be quoted and unquoted using the new {Sass::Script::Functions#unquote unquote} and {Sass::Script::Functions#quote quote} functions.
Division and /
Two numbers separated by a / character
are allowed as property syntax in CSS,
e.g. for the font property.
SassScript also uses / for division, however,
which means it must decide what to do
when it encounters numbers separated by /.
For CSS compatibility, SassScript does not perform division by default. However, division will be done in almost all cases where division is intended. In particular, SassScript will perform division in the following three situations:
- If the value, or any part of it, is stored in a variable.
- If the value is surrounded by parentheses.
- If the value is used as part of another arithmetic expression.
For example:
p
font: 10px/8px
$width: 1000px
width: $width/2
height: (500px/2)
margin-left: 5px + 8px/2px
is compiled to:
p {
font: 10px/8px;
width: 500px;
height: 250px;
margin-left: 9px; }
Variable Defaults
Since = is no longer used for variable assignment,
assigning defaults to variables with ||= no longer makes sense.
Instead, the !default flag
should be added to the end of the variable value.
This syntax is meant to be similar to CSS's !important flag.
For example:
$var: 12px !default;
Variable Prefix Character
{#3-0-0-dollar-prefix}
The Sass variable character has been changed from !
to the more aesthetically-appealing $.
For example, what used to be
!width = 13px
.icon
width = !width
should now be
$width: 13px
.icon
width: $width
The sass-convert command-line tool can be used
to upgrade Sass files to the new syntax using the --in-place flag.
For example:
# Upgrade style.sass:
$ sass-convert --in-place style.sass
# Upgrade all Sass files:
$ sass-convert --recursive --in-place --from sass2 --to sass stylesheets/
! may still be used, but it's deprecated and will print a warning.
It will be removed in the next version of Sass, 3.2.
Variable and Mixin Names
SassScript variable and mixin names may now contain hyphens. In fact, they may be any valid CSS3 identifier. For example:
$prettiest-color: #542FA9
=pretty-text
color: $prettiest-color
In order to allow frameworks like Compass to use hyphens in variable names while maintaining backwards-compatibility, variables and mixins using hyphens may be referred to with underscores, and vice versa. For example:
$prettiest-color: #542FA9
.pretty
// Using an underscore instead of a hyphen works
color: $prettiest_color
Single-Quoted Strings
SassScript now supports single-quoted strings. They behave identically to double-quoted strings, except that single quotes need to be backslash-escaped and double quotes do not.
Mixin Definition and Inclusion
Sass now supports the @mixin directive as a way of defining mixins (like =),
as well as the @include directive as a way of including them (like +).
The old syntax is not deprecated,
and the two are fully compatible.
For example:
@mixin pretty-text
color: $prettiest-color
a
@include pretty-text
is the same as:
=pretty-text
color: $prettiest-color
a
+pretty-text
Sass Properties
New-style properties (with the colon after the name) in indented syntax now allow whitespace before the colon. For example:
foo
color : blue
Sass @import
The Sass @import statement now allows non-CSS files to be specified with quotes,
for similarity with the SCSS syntax. For example, @import "foo.sass"
will now import the foo.sass file, rather than compiling to @import "foo.sass";.
@extend
{#3-0-0-extend}
There are often cases when designing a page when one class should have all the styles of another class, as well as its own specific styles. The most common way of handling this is to use both the more general class and the more specific class in the HTML. For example, suppose we have a design for a normal error and also for a serious error. We might write our markup like so:
<div class="error seriousError">
Oh no! You've been hacked!
</div>
And our styles like so:
.error {
border: 1px #f00;
background-color: #fdd;
}
.seriousError {
border-width: 3px;
}
Unfortunately, this means that we have to always remember
to use .error with .seriousError.
This is a maintenance burden, leads to tricky bugs,
and can bring non-semantic style concerns into the markup.
The @extend directive avoids these problems
by telling Sass that one selector should inherit the styles of another selector.
For example:
.error {
border: 1px #f00;
background-color: #fdd;
}
.seriousError {
@extend .error;
border-width: 3px;
}
This means that all styles defined for .error
are also applied to .seriousError,
in addition to the styles specific to .seriousError.
In effect, everything with class .seriousError also has class .error.
Other rules that use .error will work for .seriousError as well.
For example, if we have special styles for errors caused by hackers:
.error.intrusion {
background-image: url("/image/hacked.png");
}
Then <div class="seriousError intrusion">
will have the hacked.png background image as well.
How it Works
@extend works by inserting the extending selector (e.g. .seriousError)
anywhere in the stylesheet that the extended selector (.e.g .error) appears.
Thus the example above:
.error {
border: 1px #f00;
background-color: #fdd;
}
.error.intrusion {
background-image: url("/image/hacked.png");
}
.seriousError {
@extend .error;
border-width: 3px;
}
is compiled to:
.error, .seriousError {
border: 1px #f00;
background-color: #fdd; }
.error.intrusion, .seriousError.intrusion {
background-image: url("/image/hacked.png"); }
.seriousError {
border-width: 3px; }
When merging selectors, @extend is smart enough
to avoid unnecessary duplication,
so something like .seriousError.seriousError gets translated to .seriousError.
In addition, it won't produce selectors that can't match anything, like #main#footer.
See also {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#extend the @extend reference documentation}.
Colors
SassScript color values are much more powerful than they were before. Support was added for alpha channels, and most of Chris Eppstein's compass-colors plugin was merged in, providing color-theoretic functions for modifying colors.
One of the most interesting of these functions is {Sass::Script::Functions#mix mix}, which mixes two colors together. This provides a much better way of combining colors and creating themes than standard color arithmetic.
Alpha Channels
Sass now supports colors with alpha channels, constructed via the {Sass::Script::Functions#rgba rgba} and {Sass::Script::Functions#hsla hsla} functions. Alpha channels are unaffected by color arithmetic. However, the {Sass::Script::Functions#opacify opacify} and {Sass::Script::Functions#transparentize transparentize} functions allow colors to be made more and less opaque, respectively.
Sass now also supports functions that return the values of the {Sass::Script::Functions#red red}, {Sass::Script::Functions#blue blue}, {Sass::Script::Functions#green green}, and {Sass::Script::Functions#alpha alpha} components of colors.
HSL Colors
Sass has many new functions for using the HSL values of colors. For an overview of HSL colors, check out the CSS3 Spec. All these functions work just as well on RGB colors as on colors constructed with the {Sass::Script::Functions#hsl hsl} function.
-
The {Sass::Script::Functions#lighten lighten} and {Sass::Script::Functions#darken darken} functions adjust the lightness of a color.
-
The {Sass::Script::Functions#saturate saturate} and {Sass::Script::Functions#desaturate desaturate} functions adjust the saturation of a color.
-
The {Sass::Script::Functions#adjust_hue adjust-hue} function adjusts the hue of a color.
-
The {Sass::Script::Functions#hue hue}, {Sass::Script::Functions#saturation saturation}, and {Sass::Script::Functions#lightness lightness} functions return the corresponding HSL values of the color.
-
The {Sass::Script::Functions#grayscale grayscale} function converts a color to grayscale.
-
The {Sass::Script::Functions#complement complement} function returns the complement of a color.
Other New Functions
Several other new functions were added to make it easier to have more flexible arguments to mixins and to enable deprecation of obsolete APIs.
- {Sass::Script::Functions#type_of
type-of} -- Returns the type of a value. - {Sass::Script::Functions#unit
unit} -- Returns the units associated with a number. - {Sass::Script::Functions#unitless
unitless} -- Returns whether a number has units or not. - {Sass::Script::Functions#comparable
comparable} -- Returns whether two numbers can be added or compared.
Watching for Updates
{#3-0-0-watch}
The sass command-line utility has a new flag: --watch.
sass --watch monitors files or directories for updated Sass files
and compiles those files to CSS automatically.
This will allow people not using Ruby or Compass
to use Sass without having to manually recompile all the time.
Here's the syntax for watching a directory full of Sass files:
sass --watch app/stylesheets:public/stylesheets
This will watch every Sass file in app/stylesheets.
Whenever one of them changes,
the corresponding CSS file in public/stylesheets will be regenerated.
Any files that import that file will be regenerated, too.
The syntax for watching individual files is the same:
sass --watch style.sass:out.css
You can also omit the output filename if you just want it to compile to name.css. For example:
sass --watch style.sass
This will update style.css whenever style.sass changes.
You can list more than one file and/or directory, and all of them will be watched:
sass --watch foo/style:public/foo bar/style:public/bar
sass --watch screen.sass print.sass awful-hacks.sass:ie.css
sass --watch app/stylesheets:public/stylesheets public/stylesheets/test.sass
File and directory watching is accessible from Ruby, using the {Sass::Plugin::Compiler#watch Sass::Plugin#watch} function.
Bulk Updating
Another new flag for the sass command-line utility is --update.
It checks a group of Sass files to see if their CSS needs to be updated,
and updates if so.
The syntax for --update is just like watch:
sass --update app/stylesheets:public/stylesheets
sass --update style.sass:out.css
sass --watch screen.sass print.sass awful-hacks.sass:ie.css
In fact, --update work exactly the same as --watch,
except that it doesn't continue watching the files
after the first check.
sass-convert (née css2sass)
The sass-convert tool, which used to be known as css2sass,
has been greatly improved in various ways.
It now uses a full-fledged CSS3 parser,
so it should be able to handle any valid CSS3,
as well as most hacks and proprietary syntax.
sass-convert can now convert between Sass and SCSS.
This is normally inferred from the filename,
but it can also be specified using the --from and --to flags.
For example:
$ generate-sass | sass-convert --from sass --to scss | consume-scss
It's also now possible to convert a file in-place --
that is, overwrite the old file with the new file.
This is useful for converting files in the Sass 2 syntax
to the new Sass 3 syntax,
e.g. by doing sass-convert --in-place --from sass2 style.sass.
--recursive
The --recursive option allows sass-convert to convert an entire directory of files.
--recursive requires both the --from and --to flags to be specified.
For example:
# Convert all .sass files in stylesheets/ to SCSS.
# "sass2" means that these files are assumed to use the Sass 2 syntax.
$ sass-convert --recursive --from sass2 --to scss stylesheets/
--dasherize
The --dasherize options converts all underscores to hyphens,
which are now allowed as part of identifiers in Sass.
Note that since underscores may still be used in place of hyphens
when referring to mixins and variables,
this won't cause any backwards-incompatibilities.
Convert Less to SCSS
sass-convert can also convert Less files
to SCSS (or the indented syntax, although I anticipate less interest in that).
For example:
# Convert all .less files in the current directory into .scss files
sass-convert --from less --to scss --recursive .
This is done using the Less parser, so it requires that the less RubyGem be installed.
Incompatibilities
Because of the reasonably substantial differences between Sass and Less, there are some things that can't be directly translated, and one feature that can't be translated at all. In the tests I've run on open-source Less stylesheets, none of these have presented issues, but it's good to be aware of them.
First, Less doesn't distinguish fully between mixins and selector inheritance.
In Less, all classes and some other selectors may be used as mixins,
alongside more Sass-like mixins.
If a class is being used as a mixin,
it may also be used directly in the HTML,
so it's not safe to translate it into a Sass mixin.
What sass-convert does instead is leave the class in the stylesheet as a class,
and use {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#extend @extend}
rather than {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#including_a_mixin @include}
to take on the styles of that class.
Although @extend and mixins work quite differently,
using @extend here doesn't actually seem to make a difference in practice.
Another issue with Less mixins is that Less allows nested selectors
(such as .body .button or .colors > .teal) to be used
as a means of "namespacing" mixins.
Sass's @extend doesn't work that way,
so it does away with the namespacing and just extends the base class
(so .colors > .teal becomes simply @extend .teal).
In practice, this feature doesn't seem to be widely-used,
but sass-convert will print a warning and leave a comment
when it encounters it just in case.
Finally, Less has the ability to directly access variables and property values
defined in other selectors, which Sass does not support.
Whenever such an accessor is used,
sass-convert will print a warning
and comment it out in the SCSS output.
Like namespaced mixins, though,
this does not seem to be a widely-used feature.
@warn Directive
A new directive @warn has been added that allows Sass libraries to emit warnings.
This can be used to issue deprecation warnings, discourage sloppy use of mixins, etc.
@warn takes a single argument: a SassScript expression that will be
displayed on the console along with a stylesheet trace for locating the warning.
For example:
@mixin blue-text {
@warn "The blue-text mixin is deprecated. Use new-blue-text instead.";
color: #00f;
}
Warnings may be silenced with the new --quiet command line option,
or the corresponding {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#quiet-option :quiey Sass option}.
This option will also affect warnings printed by Sass itself.
Warnings are off by default in the Rails, Rack, and Merb production environments.
Sass::Plugin API
{Sass::Plugin} now has a large collection of callbacks that allow users to run code when various actions are performed. For example:
Sass::Plugin.on_updating_stylesheet do |template, css|
puts "#{template} has been compiled to #{css}!"
end
For a full list of callbacks and usage notes, see the {Sass::Plugin} documentation.
{Sass::Plugin} also has a new method, {Sass::Plugin#force_update_stylesheets force_update_stylesheets}. This works just like {Sass::Plugin#update_stylesheets}, except that it doesn't check modification times and doesn't use the cache; all stylesheets are always compiled anew.
Output Formatting
Properties with a value and also nested properties are now rendered with the nested properties indented. For example:
margin: auto
top: 10px
bottom: 20px
is now compiled to:
margin: auto;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
:compressed Style
When the :compressed style is used,
colors will be output as the minimal possible representation.
This means whichever is smallest of the HTML4 color name
and the hex representation (shortened to the three-letter version if possible).
Stylesheet Updating Speed
Several caching layers were added to Sass's stylesheet updater.
This means that it should run significantly faster.
This benefit will be seen by people using Sass in development mode
with Rails, Rack, and Merb,
as well as people using sass --watch from the command line,
and to a lesser (but still significant) extent sass --update.
Thanks to thedarkone.
Error Backtraces
Numerous bugs were fixed with the backtraces given for Sass errors, especially when importing files and using mixins. All imports and mixins will now show up in the Ruby backtrace, with the proper filename and line number.
In addition, when the sass executable encounters an error,
it now prints the filename where the error occurs,
as well as a backtrace of Sass imports and mixins.
Ruby 1.9 Support
-
Sass and
css2sassnow produce more descriptive errors when given a template with invalid byte sequences for that template's encoding, including the line number and the offending character. -
Sass and
css2sassnow accept Unicode documents with a byte-order-mark.
Firebug Support
A new {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#debug_info-option :debug_info option}
has been added that emits line-number and filename information
to the CSS file in a browser-readable format.
This can be used with the new FireSass Firebug extension
to report the Sass filename and line number for generated CSS files.
This is also available via the --debug-info command-line flag.
Minor Improvements
-
If a CSS or Sass function is used that has the name of a color, it will now be parsed as a function rather than as a color. For example,
fuchsia(12)now renders asfuchsia(12)rather thanfuchsia 12, andtealbang(12)now renders astealbang(12)rather thanteal bang(12). -
The Sass Rails and Merb plugins now use Rack middleware by default.
-
Haml is now compatible with the Rip package management system. Thanks to Josh Peek.
-
Indented-syntax
/*comments may now include*on lines beyond the first. -
A {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#read_cache-option
:read_cache} option has been added to allow the Sass cache to be read from but not written to. -
Stylesheets are no longer checked during each request when running tests in Rails. This should speed up some tests significantly.
2.2.24
- Parent references -- the
&character -- may only be placed at the beginning of simple selector sequences in Sass 3. Placing them elsewhere is deprecated in 2.2.24 and will print a warning. For example,foo &.baris allowed, butfoo .bar&is not.
2.2.23
-
Don't crash when
rake gemsis run in Rails with Sass installed. Thanks to Florian Frank. -
When raising a file-not-found error, add a list of load paths that were checked.
-
If an import isn't found for a cached Sass file and the {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#full_exception
:full_exception option} is enabled, print the full exception rather than raising it. -
Fix a bug with a weird interaction with Haml, DataMapper, and Rails 3 that caused some tag helpers to go into infinite recursion.
2.2.22
-
Add a railtie so Haml and Sass will be automatically loaded in Rails 3. Thanks to Daniel Neighman.
-
Make loading the gemspec not crash on read-only filesystems like Heroku's.
2.2.21
-
Fix a few bugs in the git-revision-reporting in {Sass::Version#version}. In particular, it will still work if
git gchas been called recently, or if various files are missing. -
Always use
__FILE__when reading files within the Haml repo in theRakefile. According to this bug report, this should make Sass work better with Bundler.
2.2.20
-
If the cache file for a given Sass file is corrupt because it doesn't have enough content, produce a warning and read the Sass file rather than letting the exception bubble up. This is consistent with other sorts of sassc corruption handling.
-
Calls to
defined?shouldn't interfere with Rails' autoloading in very old versions (1.2.x).
2.2.19
There were no changes made to Sass between versions 2.2.18 and 2.2.19.
2.2.18
-
Use
Rails.envrather thanRAILS_ENVwhen running under Rails 3.0. Thanks to Duncan Grazier. -
Support
:line_numbersas an alias for {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#line_numbers-option:line_comments}, since that's what the docs have said forever. Similarly, support--line-numbersas a command-line option. -
Add a
--unix-newlinesflag to all executables for outputting Unix-style newlines on Windows. -
Add a {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#unix_newlines-option
:unix_newlinesoption} for {Sass::Plugin} for outputting Unix-style newlines on Windows. -
Fix the
--cache-locationflag, which was previously throwing errors. Thanks to tav. -
Allow comments at the beginning of the document to have arbitrary indentation, just like comments elsewhere. Similarly, comment parsing is a little nicer than before.
2.2.17
-
When the {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#full_exception-option
:full_exceptionoption} is false, raise the error in Ruby code rather than swallowing it and printing something uninformative. -
Fixed error-reporting when something goes wrong when loading Sass using the
sassexecutable. This used to raise a NameError becauseSass::SyntaxErrorwasn't defined. Now it'll raise the correct exception instead. -
Report the filename in warnings about selectors without properties.
-
nilvalues for Sass options are now ignored, rather than raising errors. -
Fix a bug that appears when Plugin template locations have multiple trailing slashes. Thanks to Jared Grippe.
Must Read!
- When
@importis given a filename without an extension, the behavior of rendering a CSS@importif no Sass file is found is deprecated. In future versions,@import foowill either import the template or raise an error.
2.2.16
- Fixed a bug where modules containing user-defined Sass functions weren't made available when simply included in {Sass::Script::Functions} ({Sass::Script::Functions Functions} needed to be re-included in {Sass::Script::Functions::EvaluationContext Functions::EvaluationContext}). Now the module simply needs to be included in {Sass::Script::Functions}.
2.2.15
-
Added {Sass::Script::Value::Color#with} for a way of setting color channels that's easier than manually constructing a new color and is forwards-compatible with alpha-channel colors (to be introduced in Sass 2.4).
-
Added a missing require in Sass that caused crashes when it was being run standalone.
2.2.14
-
All Sass functions now raise explicit errors if their inputs are of the incorrect type.
-
Allow the SassScript
rgb()function to take percentages in addition to numerical values. -
Fixed a bug where SassScript strings with
#followed by#{}interpolation didn't evaluate the interpolation.
SassScript Ruby API
These changes only affect people defining their own Sass functions using {Sass::Script::Functions}.
-
Sass::Script::Color#valueattribute is deprecated. Use {Sass::Script::Value::Color#rgb} instead. The returned array is now frozen as well. -
Add an
assert_typefunction that's available to {Sass::Script::Functions}. This is useful for typechecking the inputs to functions.
Rack Support
Sass 2.2.14 includes Rack middleware for running Sass, meaning that all Rack-enabled frameworks can now use Sass. To activate this, just add
require 'sass/plugin/rack'
use Sass::Plugin::Rack
to your config.ru.
See the {Sass::Plugin::Rack} documentation for more details.
2.2.13
There were no changes made to Sass between versions 2.2.12 and 2.2.13.
2.2.12
- Fix a stupid bug introduced in 2.2.11 that broke the Sass Rails plugin.
2.2.11
-
Added a note to errors on properties that could be pseudo-classes (e.g.
:focus) indicating that they should be backslash-escaped. -
Automatically interpret properties that could be pseudo-classes as such if {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md.html#property_syntax-option
:property_syntax} is set to:new. -
Fixed
css2sass's generation of pseudo-classes so that they're backslash-escaped. -
Don't crash if the Haml plugin skeleton is installed and
rake gems:installis run. -
Don't use
RAILS_ROOTdirectly. This no longer exists in Rails 3.0. Instead abstract this out asHaml::Util.rails_root. This changes makes Haml fully compatible with edge Rails as of this writing. -
Make use of a Rails callback rather than a monkeypatch to check for stylesheet updates in Rails 3.0+.
2.2.10
-
Add support for attribute selectors with spaces around the
=. For example:a[href = http://google.com] color: blue
2.2.9
There were no changes made to Sass between versions 2.2.8 and 2.2.9.
2.2.8
There were no changes made to Sass between versions 2.2.7 and 2.2.8.
2.2.7
There were no changes made to Sass between versions 2.2.6 and 2.2.7.
2.2.6
-
Don't crash when the
__FILE__constant of a Ruby file is a relative path, as apparently happens sometimes in TextMate (thanks to Karl Varga). -
Add "Sass" to the
--versionstring for the executables.
2.2.5
There were no changes made to Sass between versions 2.2.4 and 2.2.5.
2.2.4
-
Don't add
require 'rubygems'to the top of init.rb when installed viasass --rails. This isn't necessary, and actually gets clobbered as soon as haml/template is loaded. -
Document the previously-undocumented {file:SASS_REFERENCE.md#line-option
:lineoption}, which allows the number of the first line of a Sass file to be set for error reporting.
2.2.3
Sass 2.2.3 prints line numbers for warnings about selectors with no properties.
2.2.2
Sass 2.2.2 is a minor bug-fix release. Notable changes include better parsing of mixin definitions and inclusions and better support for Ruby 1.9.
2.2.1
Sass 2.2.1 is a minor bug-fix release.
Must Read!
- It used to be acceptable to use
-immediately following variable names, without any whitespace in between (for example,!foo-!bar). This is now deprecated, so that in the future variables with hyphens can be supported. Surround-with spaces.
2.2.0
The 2.2 release marks a significant step in the evolution of the Sass language. The focus has been to increase the power of Sass to keep your stylesheets maintainable by allowing new forms of abstraction to be created within your stylesheets and the stylesheets provided by others that you can download and import into your own. The fundamental units of abstraction in Sass are variables and mixins. Please read below for a list of changes:
Must Read!
-
Sass Comments (//) used to only comment out a single line. This was deprecated in 2.0.10 and starting in 2.2, Sass comments will comment out any lines indented under them. Upgrade to 2.0.10 in order to see deprecation warnings where this change affects you.
-
Implicit Strings within SassScript are now deprecated and will be removed in 2.4. For example:
border= !width solid #00Fshould now be written asborder: #{!width} solid #00For asborder= !width "solid" #00F. After upgrading to 2.2, you will see deprecation warnings if you have sass files that use implicit strings.
Sass Syntax Changes
Flexible Indentation
The indentation of Sass documents is now flexible. The first indent that is detected will determine the indentation style for that document. Tabs and spaces may never be mixed, but within a document, you may choose to use tabs or a flexible number of spaces.
Multiline Sass Comments
Sass Comments (//) will now comment out whatever is indented beneath them. Previously they were single line when used at the top level of a document. Upgrading to the latest stable version will give you deprecation warnings if you have silent comments with indentation underneath them.
Mixin Arguments
Sass Mixins now accept any number of arguments. To define a mixin with arguments, specify the arguments as a comma-delimited list of variables like so:
=my-mixin(!arg1, !arg2, !arg3)
As before, the definition of the mixin is indented below the mixin declaration. The variables declared in the argument list may be used and will be bound to the values passed to the mixin when it is invoked. Trailing arguments may have default values as part of the declaration:
=my-mixin(!arg1, !arg2 = 1px, !arg3 = blue)
In the example above, the mixin may be invoked by passing 1, 2 or 3 arguments to it. A similar syntax is used to invoke a mixin that accepts arguments:
div.foo
+my-mixin(1em, 3px)
When a mixin has no required arguments, the parenthesis are optional.
The default values for mixin arguments are evaluated in the global context at the time when the mixin is invoked, they may also reference the previous arguments in the declaration. For example:
!default_width = 30px
=my-fancy-mixin(!width = !default_width, !height = !width)
width= !width
height= !height
.default-box
+my-fancy-mixin
.square-box
+my-fancy-mixin(50px)
.rectangle-box
+my-fancy-mixin(25px, 75px)
!default_width = 10px
.small-default-box
+my-fancy-mixin
compiles to:
.default-box {
width: 30px;
height: 30px; }
.square-box {
width: 50px;
height: 50px; }
.rectangle-box {
width: 25px;
height: 75px; }
.small-default-box {
width: 10px;
height: 10px; }
Sass, Interactive
The sass command line option -i now allows you to quickly and interactively experiment with SassScript expressions. The value of the expression you enter will be printed out after each line. Example:
$ sass -i
>> 5px
5px
>> 5px + 10px
15px
>> !five_pixels = 5px
5px
>> !five_pixels + 10px
15px
SassScript
The features of SassScript have been greatly enhanced with new control directives, new fundamental data types, and variable scoping.
New Data Types
SassScript now has four fundamental data types:
- Number
- String
- Boolean (New in 2.2)
- Colors
More Flexible Numbers
Like JavaScript, SassScript numbers can now change between floating point and integers. No explicit casting or decimal syntax is required. When a number is emitted into a CSS file it will be rounded to the nearest thousandth, however the internal representation maintains much higher precision.
Improved Handling of Units
While Sass has long supported numbers with units, it now has a much deeper understanding of them. The following are examples of legal numbers in SassScript:
0, 1000, 6%, -2px, 5pc, 20em, or 2foo.
Numbers of the same unit may always be added and subtracted. Numbers that have units that Sass understands and finds comparable, can be combined, taking the unit of the first number. Numbers that have non-comparable units may not be added nor subtracted -- any attempt to do so will cause an error. However, a unitless number takes on the unit of the other number during a mathematical operation. For example:
>> 3mm + 4cm
43mm
>> 4cm + 3mm
4.3cm
>> 3cm + 2in
8.08cm
>> 5foo + 6foo
11foo
>> 4% + 5px
SyntaxError: Incompatible units: 'px' and '%'.
>> 5 + 10px
15px
Sass allows compound units to be stored in any intermediate form, but will raise an error if you try to emit a compound unit into your css file.
>> !em_ratio = 1em / 16px
0.063em/px
>> !em_ratio * 32px
2em
>> !em_ratio * 40px
2.5em
Colors
A color value can be declared using a color name, hexadecimal, shorthand hexadecimal, the rgb function, or the hsl function. When outputting a color into css, the color name is used, if any, otherwise it is emitted as hexadecimal value. Examples:
> #fff
white
>> white
white
>> #FFFFFF
white
>> hsl(180, 100, 100)
white
>> rgb(255, 255, 255)
white
>> #AAA
#aaaaaa
Math on color objects is performed piecewise on the rgb components. However, these operations rarely have meaning in the design domain (mostly they make sense for gray-scale colors).
>> #aaa + #123
#bbccdd
>> #333 * 2
#666666
Booleans
Boolean objects can be created by comparison operators or via the
true and false keywords. Booleans can be combined using the
and, or, and not keywords.
>> true
true
>> true and false
false
>> 5 < 10
true
>> not (5 < 10)
false
>> not (5 < 10) or not (10 < 5)
true
>> 30mm == 3cm
true
>> 1px == 1em
false
Strings
Unicode escapes are now allowed within SassScript strings.
Control Directives
New directives provide branching and looping within a sass stylesheet based on SassScript expressions. See the Sass Reference for complete details.
@for
The @for directive loops over a set of numbers in sequence, defining
the current number into the variable specified for each loop. The
through keyword means that the last iteration will include the
number, the to keyword means that it will stop just before that
number.
@for !x from 1px through 5px
.border-#{!x}
border-width= !x
compiles to:
.border-1px {
border-width: 1px; }
.border-2px {
border-width: 2px; }
.border-3px {
border-width: 3px; }
.border-4px {
border-width: 4px; }
.border-5px {
border-width: 5px; }
@if / @else if / @else
The branching directives @if, @else if, and @else let you select
between several branches of sass to be emitted, based on the result of
a SassScript expression. Example:
!type = "monster"
p
@if !type == "ocean"
color: blue
@else if !type == "matador"
color: red
@else if !type == "monster"
color: green
@else
color: black
is compiled to:
p {
color: green; }
@while
The @while directive lets you iterate until a condition is
met. Example:
!i = 6
@while !i > 0
.item-#{!i}
width = 2em * !i
!i = !i - 2
is compiled to:
.item-6 {
width: 12em; }
.item-4 {
width: 8em; }
.item-2 {
width: 4em; }
Variable Scoping
The term "constant" has been renamed to "variable." Variables can be declared at any scope (a.k.a. nesting level) and they will only be visible to the code until the next outdent. However, if a variable is already defined in a higher level scope, setting it will overwrite the value stored previously.
In this code, the !local_var variable is scoped and hidden from
other higher level scopes or sibling scopes:
.foo
.bar
!local_var = 1px
width= !local_var
.baz
// this will raise an undefined variable error.
width= !local_var
// as will this
width= !local_var
In this example, since the !global_var variable is first declared at
a higher scope, it is shared among all lower scopes:
!global_var = 1px
.foo
.bar
!global_var = 2px
width= !global_var
.baz
width= !global_var
width= !global_var
compiles to:
.foo {
width: 2px; }
.foo .bar {
width: 2px; }
.foo .baz {
width: 2px; }
Interpolation
Interpolation has been added. This allows SassScript to be used to create dynamic properties and selectors. It also cleans up some uses of dynamic values when dealing with compound properties. Using interpolation, the result of a SassScript expression can be placed anywhere:
!x = 1
!d = 3
!property = "border"
div.#{!property}
#{!property}: #{!x + !d}px solid
#{!property}-color: blue
is compiled to:
div.border {
border: 4px solid;
border-color: blue; }
Sass Functions
SassScript defines some useful functions that are called using the normal CSS function syntax:
p
color = hsl(0, 100%, 50%)
is compiled to:
#main {
color: #ff0000; }
The following functions are provided: hsl, percentage, round,
ceil, floor, and abs. You can define additional functions in
ruby.
See {Sass::Script::Functions} for more information.
New Options
:line_comments
To aid in debugging, You may set the :line_comments option to
true. This will cause the sass engine to insert a comment before
each selector saying where that selector was defined in your sass
code.
:template_location
The {Sass::Plugin} :template_location option now accepts a hash of
sass paths to corresponding css paths. Please be aware that it is
possible to import sass files between these separate locations -- they
are not isolated from each other.
Miscellaneous Features
@debug Directive
The @debug directive accepts a SassScript expression and emits the
value of that expression to the terminal (stderr).
Example:
@debug 1px + 2px
During compilation the following will be printed:
Line 1 DEBUG: 3px
Ruby 1.9 Support
Sass now fully supports Ruby 1.9.1.
Sass Cache
By default, Sass caches compiled templates and
partials. This dramatically speeds
up re-compilation of large collections of Sass files, and works best
if the Sass templates are split up into separate files that are all
@imported into one large file.
Without a framework, Sass puts the cached templates in the
.sass-cache directory. In Rails and Merb, they go in
tmp/sass-cache. The directory can be customized with the
:cache_location option. If you don't want
Sass to use caching at all, set the :cache option
to false.