📚 Sass: More about Nesting

We learnt how to nest Scss rules in the last post. Today, we’ll go into more depth regarding nesting.

In this post, we will cover:-

1. Parent Selector and pseudo-classes
2. Grouping and Nesting CSS Selectors
3. Selector Nest Combinators

Each point will be discussed in depth.

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1. Parent Selector and pseudo-classes

Official SASS document states that

The parent selector, & , is a special selector invented by Sass that’s used in nested selectors to refer to the outer selector

To further understand, consider the example below.

& here works as a reference to the outer selector which is .main .alert

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It may be puzzling to you how such a selector may be helpful, right? Parent selector is most commonly used in:

1.1 _Suffix classes context.

Many frameworks, including Bootstrap, have this pattern.

1.2 Pseudo classes also utilize a parent selector.

1.3 also & can be used as an argument inside pseudo-selectors functions:

2. Grouping and Nesting CSS Selectors

We use a comma as a separator when there are many selectors in a list.

3. Selector Nest Combinators (>, +, ~, space)

selector combinators can be placed in many places as shown below:

Need to read more about selector-nest-combinators? selector-nest-combinators

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I almost covered everything I know about SCSS nesting; nevertheless, in the following post, we’ll talk about a new subject called placeholder selector.