.button {
  padding: 3px 10px;
  font-size: 12px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  border: 1px solid #e1e4e8;
}

.button
  padding: 3px 10px
  font-size: 12px
  border-radius: 3px
  border: 1px solid #e1e4e8

.button {
  padding: 3px 10px;
  font-size: 12px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  border: 1px solid #e1e4e8;
}

Nesting

But Sass wants to make your life easier. Rather than repeating the same selectors over and over again, you can write one style rules inside another. Sass will automatically combine the outer rule’s selector with the inner rule’s.

nav {
  ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style: none;
  }

  li { display: inline-block; }

  a {
    display: block;
    padding: 6px 12px;
    text-decoration: none;
  }
}

nav
  ul
    margin: 0
    padding: 0
    list-style: none

  li
    display: inline-block

  a
    display: block
    padding: 6px 12px
    text-decoration: none

nav ul {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}
nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}
nav a {
  display: block;
  padding: 6px 12px;
  text-decoration: none;
}

Selector Lists

Nested rules are clever about handling selector lists (that is, comma-separated selectors). Each complex selector (the ones between the commas) is nested separately, and then they’re combined back into a selector list.

.alert, .warning {
  ul, p {
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-left: 0;
    padding-bottom: 0;
  }
}

.alert, .warning
  ul, p
    margin-right: 0
    margin-left: 0
    padding-bottom: 0

.alert ul, .alert p, .warning ul, .warning p {
  margin-right: 0;
  margin-left: 0;
  padding-bottom: 0;
}

Selector Combinators

You can nest selectors that use combinators as well. You can put the combinator at the end of the outer selector, at the beginning of the inner selector, or even all on its own in between the two.

ul > {
  li {
    list-style-type: none;
  }
}

h2 {
  + p {
    border-top: 1px solid gray;
  }
}

p {
  ~ {
    span {
      opacity: 0.8;
    }
  }
}

ul >
  li
    list-style-type: none



h2
  + p
    border-top: 1px solid gray



p
  ~
    span
      opacity: 0.8

ul > li {
  list-style-type: none;
}

h2 + p {
  border-top: 1px solid gray;
}

p ~ span {
  opacity: 0.8;
}

Advanced Nesting

If you want to do more with your nested style rules than just combine them in order with the descendant combinator (that is, a plain space) separating them, Sass has your back. See the parent selector documentation for more details.

Interpolation

You can use interpolation to inject values from expressions like variables and function calls into your selectors. This is particularly useful when you’re writing mixins, since it allows you to create selectors from parameters your users pass in.

@mixin define-emoji($name, $glyph) {
  span.emoji-#{$name} {
    font-family: IconFont;
    font-variant: normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    content: $glyph;
  }
}

@include define-emoji("women-holding-hands", "????");

@mixin define-emoji($name, $glyph)
  span.emoji-#{$name}
    font-family: IconFont
    font-variant: normal
    font-weight: normal
    content: $glyph



@include define-emoji("women-holding-hands", "????")

@charset "UTF-8";
span.emoji-women-holding-hands {
  font-family: IconFont;
  font-variant: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
  content: "????";
}

You can combine interpolation with the parent selector &, the @at-root rule, and selector functions to wield some serious power when dynamically generating selectors. For more information, see the parent selector documentation.