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CSS Sass Basics Add Reusable Logic to Your Sass Add Conditional Logic to Your Stylesheets

Samantha Atkinson
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Samantha Atkinson
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1 + 1 == 2? What does the 1 represent

This might be a stupid question, but I don't understand when Guil types 1 + 1 == 2 or 1 > 100. Do the numbers refer to the body selector? As in if there is more than one body selector? Even reading the Sass Reference I don't understand what the numbers are representing, a selector?

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Dave Harker
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Dave Harker
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Hi Samantha Atkinson,

He is just demonstrating condition evaluations ... they will evaluate to either true or false. And the styling in there will be run based on that outcome. So in the example he uses the background-color: green; will never get applied as 1 is not greater than 100 ... whereas the background-color: red; will always be applied as 1+1 is equal to 2.

The conditions he is using you wouldn't actually use (he is just providing conditions that absolutely return either true or false), but instead you would use something related to the page you're writing it for ... similar to how the @media queries in standard css work. e.g if (the page width is wider than x pixels) { style something } (returns true or false when evaluating, just like his conditionals) then apply some style.

Hope that helps,
Dave

Samantha Atkinson
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Samantha Atkinson
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Samantha Atkinson
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Thanks, Dave, haha I over complicated the reason for the numbers and didn't take them at face value as a simple demo of conditions evaluating to true or false. Thanks for quick response, now I can move on.