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---
title: Placeholder Selectors
introduction: >
Sass has a special kind of selector known as a “placeholder”. It looks and
acts a lot like a class selector, but it starts with a `%` and it's not
included in the CSS output. In fact, any complex selector (the ones between
the commas) that even *contains* a placeholder selector isn't included in the
CSS, nor is any style rule whose selectors all contain placeholders.
---
<%= partial "code-snippets/example-placeholder" %>
What's the use of a selector that isn't emitted? It can still be [extended][]!
Unlike class selectors, placeholders don't clutter up the CSS if they aren't
extended and they don't mandate that users of a library use specific class names
for their HTML.
[extended]: ../at-rules/extend
<% example do %>
%toolbelt {
box-sizing: border-box;
border-top: 1px rgba(#000, .12) solid;
padding: 16px 0;
width: 100%;
&:hover { border: 2px rgba(#000, .5) solid; }
}
.action-buttons {
@extend %toolbelt;
color: #4285f4;
}
.reset-buttons {
@extend %toolbelt;
color: #cddc39;
}
===
%toolbelt
box-sizing: border-box
border-top: 1px rgba(#000, .12) solid
padding: 16px 0
width: 100%
&:hover
border: 2px rgba(#000, .5) solid
.action-buttons
@extend %toolbelt
color: #4285f4
.reset-buttons
@extend %toolbelt
color: #cddc39
<% end %>
Placeholder selectors are useful when writing a Sass library where each style
rule may or may not be used. As a rule of thumb, if you're writing a stylesheet
just for your own app, it's often better to just extend a class selector if one
is available.