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Created July 23, 2012 23:20
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A SASS (SCSS) mixin for generating a sprite declaration block that will work with media queries
// http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/sprites/
@mixin get-sprite($map, $sprite, $repeat: no-repeat, $height: true, $width: true) {
//http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/sprites/#sprite-file
$sprite-image: sprite-file($map, $sprite);
// http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/sprites/#sprite-url
$sprite-map: sprite-url($map);
// http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/sprites/#sprite-position
$sprite-position: sprite-position($map, $sprite);
// Returns background
background: $sprite-map $sprite-position $repeat;
// http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/image-dimensions/
// Checks to see if the user wants height returned
@if $height == true {
// Gets the height of the sprite-image
$sprite-height: image-height($sprite-image);
// Returns the height
height: $sprite-height; }
// http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/image-dimensions/
// Checks to see if the user wants height returned
@if $width == true {
// Gets the width of the sprite-image
$sprite-width: image-width($sprite-image);
// Returns the width
width: $sprite-width; }
}
@matzering
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You just made my day! Great mixin!!

@inigopascall
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It should be noted that this mixin appears to have a bit missing: there is no clause within the function that allows the width & height to be set 'manually', even though both can to be passed to the function to override the default values of 'true'. Here is my amended code with a couple of simple lines added that allow width & height to be set manually:

@mixin get-sprite($map, $sprite, $repeat: no-repeat, $height: true, $width: true) {
$sprite-image: sprite-file($map, $sprite);
$sprite-map: sprite-url($map);
$sprite-position: sprite-position($map, $sprite);
background: $sprite-map $sprite-position $repeat;
height: $height;
@if $height == true {
$sprite-height: image-height($sprite-image);
height: $sprite-height; }
width: $width;
@if $width == true {
$sprite-width: image-width($sprite-image);
width: $sprite-width; }
}

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