| 32 | Stretching Elements |
One of the handy mixins in Compass is used for stretching. Its purpose is pretty straightforward: it allows you to stretch an element to fit into a box.
We need to define the space into which the element will be stretched, which is what we do when we’re defining the stretch_box class. We also need something to stretch; in this case we’re going to use the blue button from Task 15, Keeping It Semantic: @extend.
At the top of your style sheet, you need to @import three stretching compass files: compass/layout/stretching, compass/utilities and compass/css3. Then all you need to do is @include the mixin wherever you need a class or ID to be stretched. A useful feature is that you can define an offset border, so that when you ...
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