Breaking Change: abs() Percentage
Sass has historically supported the abs()
function. After CSS supported calculations in Values and Units Level 4, we had to workaround backwards-compatibility. However, for the abs()
function we posses a compatibility problem supporting the %
unit.
The abs()
global function in Sass supported the %
unit as an input and would
resolve the abs()
function before resolving the %
value. For instance, if
the input was abs(10%)
the function will return 10%
. As a result, if the
value of 10%
represented -50px
the function would return -50px
.
However, the CSS abs()
abs function will resolve the %
before resolving the
function. Therefore if the value of 10%
represented -50px
, abs(10%)
would
return -10%
which in the browser would be 50px
.
For this reason, we are deprecating the global abs() function with a percentage.
To preserve the current behavior, use math.abs()
instead.
Can I Silence the Warnings?Can I Silence the Warnings? permalink
Sass provides a powerful suite of options for managing which deprecation warnings you see and when.
Terse and Verbose ModeTerse and Verbose Mode permalink
By default, Sass runs in terse mode, where it will only print each type of deprecation warning five times before it silences additional warnings. This helps ensure that users know when they need to be aware of an upcoming breaking change without creating an overwhelming amount of console noise.
If you run Sass in verbose mode instead, it will print every deprecation
warning it encounters. This can be useful for tracking the remaining work to be
done when fixing deprecations. You can enable verbose mode using
the --verbose
flag on the command line, or
the verbose
option in the JavaScript API.
⚠️ Heads up!
When running from the JS API, Sass doesn’t share any information across
compilations, so by default it’ll print five warnings for each stylesheet
that’s compiled. However, you can fix this by writing (or asking the author of
your favorite framework’s Sass plugin to write) a custom Logger
that only
prints five errors per deprecation and can be shared across multiple compilations.
Silencing Deprecations in DependenciesSilencing Deprecations in Dependencies permalink
Sometimes, your dependencies have deprecation warnings that you can’t do
anything about. You can silence deprecation warnings from dependencies while
still printing them for your app using
the --quiet-deps
flag on the command line, or
the quietDeps
option in the JavaScript API.
For the purposes of this flag, a "dependency" is any stylesheet that’s not just a series of relative loads from the entrypoint stylesheet. This means anything that comes from a load path, and most stylesheets loaded through custom importers.
Silencing Specific DeprecationsSilencing Specific Deprecations permalink
If you know that one particular deprecation isn’t a problem for you, you can
silence warnings for that specific deprecation using
the --silence-deprecation
flag on the command line, or
the silenceDeprecations
option in the JavaScript API.