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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Advanced Sass Concepts Interpolation and if/else Loops

Posted by mattlebl
mattlebl
10,849 Points

What is the difference between .sass and .scss?

I get some mad errors when I tell programs that I'm writing a .sass file when I'm really writing a .scss file. What's the difference?

1 Answer

Andrew Molloy
Andrew Molloy
37,259 Points

They are different syntaxes. Sass file is the older syntax with strict indentation. Scss file is the newer syntax with same syntax as actual css3. If you are using modern syntax for sass then the sass file format won't support it whereas the Scss for format does support the older sass file format syntax.