Extending selectors from within media queries with Sass

Question

I have an item class and a compact \"modifier\" class:

.item { ... }
.item.compact { /* styles to make .item smaller */ }

This is fine. How

Answer 1

For the record, here is how I ended up solving the problem with only duplicating generated styles once:

// This is where the actual compact styles live
@mixin compact-mixin { /* ... */ }

// Include the compact mixin for items that are always compact
.item.compact { @include compact-mixin; }

// Here's the tricky part, due to how SASS handles extending
.item { ... }
// The following needs to be declared AFTER .item, else it'll
// be overridden by .item's NORMAL styles.
@media (max-width: 600px) {
  %compact { @include compact-mixin; }

  // Afterwards we can extend and
  // customize different item compact styles
  .item {
    @extend %compact;
    /* Other styles that override %compact */
  }
  // As shown below, we can extend the compact styles as many
  // times as we want without needing to re-extend
  // the compact mixin, thus avoiding generating duplicate css
  .item-alt {
    @extend %compact;
  }
}