Smashing Layout

The Sass Way to recreate Smashing Magazine's layout (circa 2009).

Installation

gem install smashing-layout

Add require 'smashing-layout' to your Compass config file.

Usage

There are two mixins that produce all the magic in Smashing Layout.

The smashing-layout mixin

The smashing-layout mixin sets up the core layout based on the default variable configuration or your overrides.

Here is the default configuration of Smashing Layout. If you plan to override this, be sure to do so above the import of smashing-layout.

// Configuration
$smashing-direction: right
$smashing-max-width: 1200px
$smashing-min-width: 900px
$smashing-support-ie6: false

The following markup structure is needed to create the Smashing Layout.

#your-id
  .max-width
    .padding
      .primary.column
         ...
      .secondary.column
         ...

If you have set the variable $smashing-support-ie6 to true (set to false by default), the following markup structure is needed to create the Smashing Layout.

#your-id
  .max-width
    .min-width
      .padding
        .primary.column
           ...
        .secondary.column
           ...

The smashing-width mixin

The smashing-width mixin sets up just the width with no columns based on the default variable configuration or your overrides. This is needed for headers and footers and other parts of your layout that need to be set to the same width as your main content areas where you've used the smashing-layout mixin.

This assumes the following markup structure to apply the smashing-width.

#your-id
  .max-width
    .min-width
      ...

License

Copyright (c) 2009 Adam Stacoviak

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