Boost Sass & Compass efficiency

This article first appeared in issue 233 of .net magazine – the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers.

While the authoring environment is certainly more favourable when using Sass and Compass as opposed to standard CSS, a common concern is that the resultant code will be more bloated than if it was written ‘by hand’. This could lead to CSS that is harder to manage with elements written and overwritten a number of times, but also code that has a larger footprint than it needs. Here, we’ll employ features of Sass and Compass that can trim excessive code and possibly even generate CSS that is more efficient than if you’d written it yourself.

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