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CSS Advanced Sass Advanced Variables, Mixins, Functions, and Placeholders Scoping and !default Variables

Iulia Maria Lungu
Iulia Maria Lungu
16,935 Points
Posted by Iulia Maria Lungu
Iulia Maria Lungu
16,935 Points

this behaviour is outdated in sass 3.4.21

It should be noted that in Sass 3.4.21 (Selective Steve), this scoping works like JavaScript, exactly as the deprecation warning shown in the terminal in this video.

This :

$text-color : blue;

h1 {
  $text-color: red;
  color: $text-color;

}

h2 {
  color: $text-color;
}

compiles to this:

h1 {
  color: red;
}

h2 {
  color: blue;
}

so $text-color remains in the global scope where it was first defined

1 Answer

Jordin Marshall
Jordin Marshall
26,782 Points

What he's describing in the video still works. He announces in this video that if you want $text-color: red to become its default color you must pass the !global flag after red. So,

$text-color : blue;

h1 { 
$text-color: red !global; 
color: $text-color;

}

h2 { 
color: $text-color; 
}

compiles to

h1 { 
color: red; 
}

h2 { 
color: red; 
}