Simpletastic

Simplestastic is a very lightweight framework (actually just a few lines of code) written in Sass that greatly simplifies the creation of responsive and fluid grids. It is designed for people tired of complex frameworks with tons of, sometimes, useless options, who want to write something quick and simple.

Forget about calculating weird percentages or using some magic numbers, inspired by this article by Harry Roberts, instead of defining a class name like .span-3 or .large-6, which has little meaning and is not very easy to memorize, let Simpletastic abstract these widths into comprehensible fractions. For example: If you wanted to have 3 columns of which every one was one third of the available space @include column (1, 3), or one half @include column (1, 2), or even four twelfths @include column (4, 12). Any combination that suits your needs is possible.

Requirements

• Sass 3.2+ (Silent classes are used, which means that the classes never get compiled to CSS until they are explicitly expanded into another class.)

Getting started

In your main stylesheet:

@import "grid";

Then just 2 steps :)

1. Extend the %row invisible class to any .class-name or <tag> that is going to be the container for the columns.

   ul {
       @extend %row;
   }

2. Then include the column mixin in the child element(s). In this case one third of the available space.

   li {
       @include column(1, 3);
   }

   

Settings

The only default setting is the gap size which, by default, is set to 2%, can be overridden. Any percentage value, including 0 to remove it, can be used.

$default-gap-width: 2% !default;

You can also override the gap size for any column by simply passing the new size to the column mixin using the third parameter.

li { @include column(1, 3, 0%); }

// Or…

li { @include column(1, 3, 10%); }