Im fairly new to SASS and I'm confused by the way lists work. I have a multidimensional list like this:
$stylethemes: {
(15, bold, red),
(12, normal, blue)
}
I now want a function that makes a class for each list in $stylethemes and then puts the values of that list into that class. The output I want from the above list is this:
.theme1{
font-size: 15;
font-weight: bold;
color: red;
}
.theme2{
font-size: 12;
font-weight: normal;
color: blue;
}
Can anyone show me how I can do this? Thanks in advance.
The code to produce the desired results would look like this:
$stylethemes: (
(15, bold, red),
(12, normal, blue)
);
@for $i from 1 through length($stylethemes) {
.theme#{$i} {
font-size: nth(nth($stylethemes, $i), 1);
font-weight: nth(nth($stylethemes, $i), 2);
color: nth(nth($stylethemes, $i), 3);
}
}
However, you'll find this isn't particularly flexible. You're better off using mappings for the property/values so that you don't have to guarantee a specific order:
$stylethemes: (
(font-size: 15, font-weight: bold, color: red),
(font-size: 12, font-weight: normal, color: blue)
);
@for $i from 1 through length($stylethemes) {
.theme#{$i} {
@each $prop, $val in nth($stylethemes, $i) {
#{$prop}: $val;
}
}
}
Or
$stylethemes: (
theme1: (font-size: 15, font-weight: bold, color: red),
theme2: (font-size: 12, font-weight: normal, color: blue)
);
@each $theme, $properties in $stylethemes {
.#{$theme} {
@each $prop, $val in $properties {
#{$prop}: $val;
}
}
}
Youa re basically asking us to solve your pboelm, but fine, since SASS is very deep and fun to use and can be a bit daunting with its lack of map looping functions. I changed a couple of things but this is essentially it:
// first off, I decided to make your style themes a SASS map. This is useful because your
// your theme will be intricately linked to its name, making it easier to read
// you could to the same with the values, but for now I'll count them.
$stylethemes: (
theme-1 : (15, bold, red),
theme-2 : (12, normal, blue)
);
// first, we need to create a regular list we can loop through with a for loop
// map-keys returns a list we can use for that
$allthemes : map-keys($stylethemes);
// then we can run through all the themes by finding the theme name from the above list
@for $var from 1 through length($allthemes) {
// heres how we get the theme name
$theme : nth($allthemes, $var);
// heres how we get the values stored in your SASS map
$this : map-get($stylethemes, $theme);
// then I assign all your variables to vars, but its not necessary
$size : nth($this, 1);
$style : nth($this, 2);
$color : nth($this, 3);
// now print the theme name as a classname
.#{$theme}{
// then print the values - you could also use the above nth($this, n) to get them.
font-size: $size;
font-weight: $style;
color: $color;
}
}
I got all the function info from the SASS documentation site: http://sass-lang.com/documentation/Sass/Script/Functions.html, so have a look around there, there is a dedicated section for lists and maps. Have a look at lists and maps as they will be very useful for this kind of thing.