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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors Defining Variables

Posted by Joshua szkodlarski
Joshua szkodlarski
8,604 Points

Assign your own variable called "lime" and give it a value of #090.

Assign your own variable called "lime" and give it a value of #090.

not sure how to do this

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Sass Basics - Code Challenge</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="page-style.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
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  <div class="sidebar">
    <div class="inner_sidebar">
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  </div>
  <div class="entry">
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      <div class="content">
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</body>
</html>
style.scss 
$primary-color

2 Answers

Nadia Masiero
Nadia Masiero
3,468 Points
Nadia Masiero
Nadia Masiero
3,468 Points

This might help:

$lime: #090; $sidebar_width: 100px;

Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee
8,136 Points
Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee
8,136 Points

in SASS to make a variable you use $ then the name of the variable, so you would use $lime and then add your value, so it becomes $lime: #090; Don't forget the semi colon afterwards!