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CSS Modular CSS with Sass Getting Modular with Mixins and Functions Pixels to Em Function

Edward Bryan Kene Morales
Edward Bryan Kene Morales
7,374 Points
Posted by Edward Bryan Kene Morales
Edward Bryan Kene Morales
7,374 Points

Sass Naming Convention

Hi guys!

I am just curios why Guil uses some sort of a pattern in naming variables in the config file. Here are some examples:

$font-weight--ultra-bold : 900;

$base__font-size: 16px;

See, the first one has double hyphen and the other one has double underscore. Is there some reason behind this or this purely personal preference?

Any help will be greatly appreciated! Cheers!

1 Answer

David Tonge
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points

It's call BEM. 

.BLOCK{__ELEMENT[--MODIFIER]}

It's basically a naming convention to organize your code.