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John Wheal
27,969 PointsWhat is SASS?
In the latest exercise your creative you use something called SASS. What is this?
3 Answers
Paul Dunahoo
5,390 PointsStylesheet Language.
Jeremy Hilder
Courses Plus Student 9,084 PointsTake a look at http://sass-lang.com/ for an overview.
James Barnett
39,199 Points@John - Sass is a CSS pre-processor.
It allows you to do useful things like let you do useful things like declare your hexcolor in one place and then reference it by variable name.
Sass is also good at letting you write all of your vendor pre-fixes for border-radius once and then reference then multiple times.
Sass is then compiled using Ruby into the CSS syntax we all know and love.
Sass has been covered on the Treehouse blog as well: