Creating more intuitive code and making inheritance clear

While HTML code already has a nested structure of HTML elements, CSS code has no nesting. Sass extends CSS with nesting, which enables you to create selectors that follow the same nested structure as your HTML.

Getting ready

Read the Installing Sass for command line usage recipe of Chapter 1, Getting Started with Sass, to find out how to install Ruby Sass.

How to do it...

Learn how to make your code more intuitive by performing the steps shown beneath:

1. Create a Sass template called main.scss that will contain the following SCSS code:

   // scss-lint:disable ColorKeyword
   
   $link-color: black;
   
   p {
     font-size: 1em;
     a {
       color: $link-color;
     }
   }

2. Compile the main.scss file from the previous step into CSS code by running the following command in your console:

   sass main.scss
   

3. You will find that the CSS code outputted to your console will look like that shown here:

   p {
     font-size: 1em; }
     p a {
       color: black; }

How it works...

Web browsers...