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CSS Sass Basics Write Smart and Efficient CSS with Sass Separate Your Stylesheet Into Partials

Samuel Cruz
Samuel Cruz
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Posted by Samuel Cruz
Samuel Cruz
9,794 Points

Partials in Sass (SCSS)

When Guil creates a new file in the 'Partials' folder why does he start the name of the file with an underscore '_' ?

1 Answer

Adam Pengh
Adam Pengh
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Adam Pengh
Adam Pengh
29,881 Points

Hi Samuel Cruz ,

You add an underscore to the front of a partial to prevent that file from being processed to CSS. Otherwise, you would end up with dozens of individual CSS files.