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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets What is CSS?

Posted by Jorge Cortez
Jorge Cortez
Courses Plus Student 84 Points

What is the difference between a file .css and a .scss

I want to know the difference thank you!

1 Answer

Dale Dobson
Dale Dobson
2,462 Points
Dale Dobson
Dale Dobson
2,462 Points

CSS is the styling language that your browser understands and uses to style webpages. SCSS is a special type of file for SASS, a program written in Ruby that assembles CSS style sheets for a browser. SASS adds lots of additional functionality to CSS like variables, nesting and more which can make writing CSS easier and faster. SCSS files are processed by the server running a web app to output a traditional CSS that your browser can understand.

Jorge Cortez
Jorge Cortez
Courses Plus Student 84 Points

thank you!