spacing

Supple CSS | utilities.spacing

Utility classes to put specific spacing values onto elements. These include margin & padding by default but can be extended with say inset for positioning. Use these only to tweak layout on a micro level.

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Table of contents

• Use
• Available classes
• Configurable variables
• Installation
• Browser support

Use

This utility generates set of classes mostly used by Supple's users. You can add classes to your liking by adding them to the configuration variables. Below you find some examples of how you can use this utility.

<div class="u-margin--base">
  Applies margin on all sides with the value of `space.get('base')`
</div>

<div class="u-margin-inline-start--base">
  Applies margin at the start of the inline axis with the value of
  `space.get('base')`
</div>

<div class="u-margin-inline-start--large">
  Applies margin at the start of the inline axis with the value of
  `space.get('large')`
</div>

<div class="u-padding-block--base">
  Applies padding at the start and end of the block axis with the value of
  `space.get('base')`
</div>

The are a lot more combinations possible, please check the variables SCSS file for more options.

responsive modifiers

When you set media queries in $in-query you can use them like this:

<div class="u-padding-block-start--tiny@palm  u-padding-block-start--base@desk">
  Applies padding at the start of the block axis with the `tiny` spacing value
  until `palm` breakpoint. Applies padding at the start of the block axis with
  the value of `base` spacing value from `palm` breakpoint.
</div>

Available classes

• .u-[PROPERTY]--[SIZE]: core spacing block

Configurable variables

SCSS variables

$properties

The properties that you want to generate spacings for. key is the classname, value is the property name.

example:

$properties: (
  'padding': 'padding',
  // generates `u-padding`
  'margin': 'margin',
  // generates `u-margin`
);

// or

$properties: (
  'p': 'padding',
  // generates `u-p`
  'm': 'margin',
  // generates `u-m`
  'i': 'inset',
  // generates `u-i`
);

defaults to:

$properties: (
  'margin-block-end': 'margin-block-end',
);

$sizes

And which sizes you want to generate? The names must be present in defaults.$space-factors in settings/_defaults.scss.

Example:

$sizes: ('tiny', 'base');

Defaults to:

$sizes: ('base');

$in-query

a list of media queries where .u-[PROPERTY]--[SIZE]@[QUERY-NAME] is generated for, defaults to: ()

You can overwrite the SCSS variables the following ways:

// in your manifest file, eg. `styles.scss`
@use 'node_modules/@supple-kit/supple-css/utilities/spacing' with (
  $in-query: (
    lap,
    desk,
  ),
  $properties: (
    'm': 'margin',
    'p': 'padding',
  ),
  $sizes: (
    'base',
  )
);

or

// in your own variable file, eg. `_vars.scss`
@use 'node_modules/@supple-kit/supple-css/utilities/spacing/variables' with (
  $in-query: lap,
  $sizes: (
    'tiny',
    'large',
  )
);

// in your manifest file, eg. `styles.scss`
@use 'node_modules/@supple-kit/supple-css/utilities/spacing';

Installation

Make sure you've installed/downloaded the Supple CSS library: Supple CSS installation

Browser support

• Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera)
• WebKit-based browsers (Safari, iOS Safari)
• Firefox (Gecko)