Style Guide

This style guide is for use in writing themes for Omeka S. It borrows heavily from the Github style guide. This style guide is a work in progress, so excuse our dust.

General styles

• Use 4 spaces for indentation. Do not use tabs.
• Use spaces after : when writing property declarations.
• Put spaces before { in rule declarations.
• Use hex color codes #000 unless using rgba.

Use the /* style of comments for headings you want to appear in the .css file. For Sass-only sections, such as the variables set in _base.scss, use the // commenting syntax. The ! at the beginning of the header helps bookmark sections for theme writers using the Coda web editor.

_base.scss

The _base.scss file should include any variables used across multiple .scss files. Otherwise, the variables appear at the top of the file in which they are used.

_normalize.scss

We like to use Nicolas Gallagher's normalize.css as our reset stylesheet. Include it as a .scss file and import it into _base.scss.