Pass string into variable in sass mixin

Question

I have a very simple mixin which looks like this:

@mixin global( $variable-name ) {
    font-size:   #{$variable-name}-font-size;
}

I have prev

Answer 1

You can't create a dynamic variables in sass.

'#{}' means it will convert whatever attribute to its plain css form, it won't be treated as a variable it will be treated as a text.

What you can do is create a map for the list of properties and call them inside the mixin.

$input-font-size: 16px;
$textarea-font-size: 14px;


$var-map: (
  input: $input-font-size, 
  textarea:  $textarea-font-size,
);

@mixin global( $variable-name ) {
    font-size:  map-get($var-map, $variable-name);
}

body {
  @include global( input );
}

or if you dont want to create the map then you can simply pass the variable name in the mixin

@mixin sec( $variable-name ) {
  font-size: $variable-name;
}
.text-area {
  @include sec( $textarea-font-size );
}

Sample pen https://codepen.io/srajagop/pen/aWedNM