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Luke Watts is a web developer and digital artist from Galway, Ireland. He started learning web design in 2012 after many years working with AutoCAD in the manufacturing industry. In 2014 he set up his own web development agency called Affinity4 (http://affinity4.ie) in Galway, Ireland. He is an Oracle Certified MySQL Developer, and an Adobe Certified Associate (Photoshop and Dreamweaver). Luke has a keen interest in learning and teaching others. He has written articles for many websites, including his own blog, on a wide range of subjects such as SEO, WordPress Development, SVG, Sass, Jade, OOP, Git, Silex, MySQL, and PHP. Luke is also an accomplished artist, both in traditional mediums (mostly pencil and ink) and in digital painting. When not building websites or writing code he will most likely be working on a digital painting on his Wacom tablet using Photoshop or creating a 3D model or scene in any number of 3D modeling applications.
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The container mixin


Next, let's replace our container with Susy's container mixin. The container mixin sets the max-width of the containing element, which right now is our .container element. However, later in this chapter we will use this to semantically restrict certain parts of the design to our maximum width.

The container element takes a width argument, which will be the max-width. It also automatically applies the micro clearfix hack. This prevents the containers height from collapsing when the elements inside it are floated. I prefer the overflow: hidden method myself, but they do the same thing essentially.

By default, the container will be set to max-width: 100%. However, you can set it to be any valid unit of dimension, such as 60em, 1160px, 50%, 90vw, or whatever. As long as it's a valid CSS unit it will work.

So let's replace our current properties in the .container  rule in scss/layout/_grid.scss with the container mixin:

.container { 
    @include container(1160px); 
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Luke Watts is a web developer and digital artist from Galway, Ireland. He started learning web design in 2012 after many years working with AutoCAD in the manufacturing industry. In 2014 he set up his own web development agency called Affinity4 (http://affinity4.ie) in Galway, Ireland. He is an Oracle Certified MySQL Developer, and an Adobe Certified Associate (Photoshop and Dreamweaver). Luke has a keen interest in learning and teaching others. He has written articles for many websites, including his own blog, on a wide range of subjects such as SEO, WordPress Development, SVG, Sass, Jade, OOP, Git, Silex, MySQL, and PHP. Luke is also an accomplished artist, both in traditional mediums (mostly pencil and ink) and in digital painting. When not building websites or writing code he will most likely be working on a digital painting on his Wacom tablet using Photoshop or creating a 3D model or scene in any number of 3D modeling applications.
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