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Published inApr 2013
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Ben Frain
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Ben Frain has been a web designer/developer since 1996. He is currently employed as a UI-UX Technical Lead at bet365. Before the web, he worked as an underrated (and modest) TV actor and technology journalist, having graduated from Salford University with a degree in Media and Performance. He has written four equally underrated (his opinion) screenplays and still harbors the (fading) belief he might sell one. Outside of work, he enjoys simple pleasures: playing indoor football while his body and wife still allow it and wrestling with his two sons.
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Grids within grids


As already mentioned, Susy makes it easy to create grids within grids. Let’s use this feature to space out the section of links beneath the block quote (the links to Amazon and Barnes and Noble bookstores).

We’ll separate the styles that will affect this area across two partials. We only want the _layout.scss partial to contain structural layout so we can add the Susy-related rules there:

// Grid override for purchase links
 @include with-grid-settings(4,12em,1.5em,0) {
  .purchase-links-wrapper {
    @include container;
  }
  .purchase-link {
    @include span-columns(1);
    @include nth-omega(4n);
  }
};

There are a few things going on here, so let’s break that chunk of code down. First of all, we are including the with-grid-settings mixin:

@include with-grid-settings(4,8em,1.5em,0) {

This lets us create a new grid, with different settings, within an existing grid. The syntax of the with-grid-settings mixin is: number of columns (4 columns in the preceding example), the...

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Ben Frain

Ben Frain has been a web designer/developer since 1996. He is currently employed as a UI-UX Technical Lead at bet365. Before the web, he worked as an underrated (and modest) TV actor and technology journalist, having graduated from Salford University with a degree in Media and Performance. He has written four equally underrated (his opinion) screenplays and still harbors the (fading) belief he might sell one. Outside of work, he enjoys simple pleasures: playing indoor football while his body and wife still allow it and wrestling with his two sons.
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