The ampersand & a killer Sass feature

28 Jun 2011

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Earlier tonight Adam Stacoviak posted something on his blog about the killer feature that is the ampersand in the Sass CSS meta-language. Go read it immediately. Go. I’ll wait here.

So – to boil this down … the “&” tells sass to pull the entire parent selector into where you place this beautiful little ampersand. The perfect use case that allowed me to dip my toes into this was with something like psuedo selectors for anchor tags. Example: