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/*
* 'rem' is a Sass mixin that converts pixel values to rem values for whatever property is passed to it.
* It returns two lines of code — one of the regular pixel values (for IE), and another with the
* converted rem values (for everyone else). Special thanks to Chris Epstein (http://chriseppstein.github.com)
* and Martin Bavio (http://martinbavio.com) for the help and code!
*
* Sample input:
* .element {
* @include rem('padding',10px 0 2px 5px);
* }
*
* Sample output:
* .element {
* padding: 10px 0 2px 5px;
* padding: 1rem 0 0.2rem 0.5rem;
* }
*
*/
// Baseline, measured in pixels
// The value should be the same as the font-size value for the html element
// If the html element's font-size is set to 62.5% (of the browser's default font-size of 16px),
// then the variable below would be 10px.
$baseline_px: 10px;
@mixin rem($property, $px_values) {
// Convert the baseline into rems
$baseline_rem: ($baseline_px / 1rem);
// Print the first line in pixel values
#{$property}: $px_values;
// If there is only one (numeric) value, return the property/value line for it.
@if type-of($px_values) == 'number' {
#{$property}: $px_values / $baseline_rem;
}
// If there is more than one value, create a list and perform equations on each value
@else {
// Create an empty list that we can dump values into
$rem_values: ();
@each $value in $px_values {
// If the value is zero, return 0
@if $value == 0 {
$rem_values: append($rem_values, $value);
}
// If the value is not zero, convert it from px to rem
@else {
$rem_values: append($rem_values, ($value / $baseline_rem) );
}
}
// Return the property and its list of converted values
#{$property}: $rem_values;
}
}
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