Sass negative variable value?
CssSassCompass SassCss Problem Overview
I have a couple of scss selectors where I use the same amount positive and negative, as in:
padding: 0 15px 15px;
margin: 0 -15px 20px -15px;
I'd prefer to use a variable for all the 15px amounts, but this does not work:
$pad: 15px;
padding: 0 $pad $pad;
margin: 0 -$pad 20px -$pad;
The margin amounts convert to positive numbers. Am I missing something?
Css Solutions
Solution 1 - Css
Try it like this
margin: 0 (-$pad) 20px (-$pad);
Solution 2 - Css
A more sane solution according to sass guidelines would be to interpolate
variables like the following example:
margin: 0 -#{$pad} 20px -#{$pad};
An example: https://www.sassmeister.com/gist/c9c0208ada0eb1fdd63ae47830917293
Solution 3 - Css
I'm adding my two-penneth after considering the two previous answers, but then reading this (emphasis mine):
> You should especially avoid using interpolation like #{$number}px
.
> This doesn’t actually create a number! It creates an unquoted string
> that looks like a number, but won’t work with any number operations or
> functions. Try to make your math unit-clean so that $number
already
> has the unit px
, or write $number * 1px
.
>
> Source
Therefore I believe the correct way would be as follows, which preserves the mathematical abilities of SASS/SCSS:
$pad: 15px;
padding: 0 $pad $pad;
margin: 0 $pad*-1 20px $pad*-1;
Solution 4 - Css
create a function
@function neg($val) {
@return $val * -1
};
then I use it like this
$gutter: 30px;
.header {
margin: $gutter neg($gutter);
}
Solution 5 - Css
The official sass guides suggest a similar solution to the (currently) highest voted answer - instead of wrapping the minus-sign inside the parens, put it outside, e.g.
$pad: 15px;
padding: 0 $pad $pad;
margin: 0 -($pad) 20px -($pad);
source: https://sass-lang.com/documentation/operators/numeric#unary-operators
and per #comment-72915126 you would want to interpolate the sass value when it appears inside a css calc
function:
margin: calc(#{-$pad} - 10px);
strangely, the parens are no longer required - perhaps the string interpolation acts in a similar way to wrapping it in parens?
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