CSS Flashcards
SASS
Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets. CSS Preprocessor. An extension of CSS3 adding variables, nested rules, mixins, selector inheritance, and more.
SCSS
Sassy CSS, one of two syntaxes for SASS. Favors indentation over brackets and semicolons.
HAML
HTML Abstraction Markup Language. Favors indentation over brackets and semicolons. Terse. HAML is Ruby-centric. “login.html.haml”
ERB
Embedded Ruby. Rails will evaluate the Ruby content, add to the HTML dynamically, and output a pure HTML file. “login.html.erb”
{less}
CSS Preprocessor. Extends CSS to support variables, mixins, functions, and more. Less runs in Node, any browser, and in Rhino.
Selector
Patterns used to select HTML elements to style
Mixin
A CSS element that allows document authors to define property/value pairs that can be reused in other rulesets.
EEE
Shorthand color code for #EEEEEE. Likewise, #DDD is #DDDDDD and so on…