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title: Code Style Guide
---
%p.introduction
If you would like to contribute to this website's code, please adhere to the
following code style guidelines.
:markdown
- Please try to keep lines at a maximum of 78 characters.
- Favor clarity over brevity in naming anything.
- Pages end with `.html.haml`, `.html.erb`, `.html.md`, etc.
- Partials and layouts end with `.haml`, `.md`, `.erb`, etc.
## Markup
For the most part, we use [Haml](http://haml.info/) and
[Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) for writing markup.
If you need to use regular HTML anywhere, write HTML5, but favor a strict
XHTML style:
- Use well-formed markup; elements are nested properly and do not overlap.
- Write elements and attributes in lowercase.
- Quote all attributes.
- Self-close empty elements with a space before the trailing slash:
(`<br />`)
## Style
This website uses Sass (duh) in the newer SCSS syntax. We also use the
following extensions:
- [Compass](http://compass-style.org/)
- [Susy](http://susy.oddbird.net/)
- [Breakpoint](http://breakpoint-sass.com/)
Make sure you're using the mixins and such that they have to offer before
rewriting something, unless you can justify otherwise.
- Use hyphenated class names (no camelCase or snake_case).
- For naming, use the general-to-specific approach. See
[this article](http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/htmlcss-tutorials/quick-tip-name-your-sass-variables-modularly/)
for more details.
- Avoid nesting too deep.
- Write comma-delimited selectors on separate lines.