how does $icon-font-path works in bootstrap scss?

Question

I recently started using bootstrap SCSS on my node project. So I have app/bower_components/bootstrap-sass/lib/_glyphicons.scss for example.

Looking at my CS

Answer 1

The -sass-debug-info mess is rudimentary "source mapping", so browser developer tools can show you the original line number and filename of the Sass rule that generated that CSS (instead of the line number for the generated CSS).

Firebug has a FireSass plugin that understands these annotations. I think Chrome has built-in support, but it might be behind an experimental flag.

It has nothing to do with fonts; font-family is just used because it's an easy way to shove a string into CSS in a way that's still accessible to JavaScript without actually affecting the rendering of the document. It also has nothing to do with Bootstrap; this is part of the scss compiler.

It won't be there in compressed output, which I hope you're using in production. :)