You work with numbers all the time in CSS. 16px. 50%. 0.875em. Unfortunately CSS doesn’t give you a lot of options for manipulating them. There is the calc() function that offers some basic math, but it is limited in what it can do. Sass, on the other hand, offers more ways to work with the number data type.
Tag: data types
An Introduction To Sass Data Types, Operators, and Functions
I’m the last person to call myself a programmer, but I have learned the basics of a handful of programming languages over the years. One topic important to all of them is the different data types you can work with and how the language allows you to manipulate them.