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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Getting Started with Sass Advanced Nesting

Julius Gehrig
Julius Gehrig
16,110 Points
Posted by Julius Gehrig
Julius Gehrig
16,110 Points

Advanced nesting and the &

I've been trying to solve this for over 20 minutes now and even rewatched the video multiple times but I just cant figure out what I'm doing wrong :(

The task is:

We want to add an exception for a tags that are are in the div with a class of .footer: those links should be purple. Use the post-selector ampersand to achieve this.

This is my code:

p {
  a {
  color: red;
  .footer & {
    color: purple;
    }
  }
  > a {
  color: blue;
  &:hover {
    opacity: 0.5;
    }
  }
}

What did I do wrong?

Thanks in advance guys <3

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Julius,

The challenge wants you to be more specific. It's a div with a class of "footer" whereas you've selected any element with a class of "footer"