Assets

Jekyll provides built-in support for Sass and CoffeeScript. In order to use them, create a file with the proper extension name (one of .sass, .scss, or .coffee) and start the file with two lines of triple dashes, like this:

---
---

// start content
.my-definition
  font-size: 1.2em

Jekyll treats these files the same as a regular page, in that the output file will be placed in the same directory that it came from. For instance, if you have a file named css/styles.scss in your site’s source folder, Jekyll will process it and put it in your site’s destination folder under css/styles.css.

Sass/SCSS

Jekyll allows you to customize your Sass conversion in certain ways.

Place all your partials in your sass_dir, which defaults to <source>/_sass. Place your main SCSS or Sass files in the place you want them to be in the output file, such as <source>/css. For an example, take a look at this example site using Sass support in Jekyll.

If you are using Sass @import statements, you’ll need to ensure that your sass_dir is set to the base directory that contains your Sass files. You can do that thusly:

sass:
    sass_dir: _sass

The Sass converter will default the sass_dir configuration option to _sass.

The sass_dir is only used by Sass

Note that the `sass_dir` becomes the load path for Sass imports, nothing more. This means that Jekyll does not know about these files directly, so any files here should not contain the YAML Front Matter as described above nor will they be transformed as described above. This folder should only contain imports.

You may also specify the output style with the style option in your _config.yml file:

sass:
    style: :compressed

These are passed to Sass, so any output style options Sass supports are valid here, too.

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