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CSS Sass Basics Improve Your Workflow with Sass Extend the Properties of Selectors

Posted by Renee Rosquites
Renee Rosquites
5,837 Points

@extend or &-

So would we have to add "@extend" if we have "&-callout" and "&-info" nested in ".btn"?

Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
18,199 Points

From what I understand, you do still want to include @extend. You can try adding it right into your nested classes in workspace to see the difference of your css before and after adding @extend, but it essentially gives the same results that we see in the video.

1 Answer

David Kanwisher
David Kanwisher
9,751 Points
David Kanwisher
David Kanwisher
9,751 Points

Great question!

"&-" will only steal the name of the parent, it will not reuse any of the parent CSS properties Example:

https://www.sassmeister.com/gist/a225d5553b3e168f47c22c2515e14026

This is probably what you have in mind:

https://www.sassmeister.com/gist/e9c1a265070aae43fa87745c2767d868