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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Advanced Sass Concepts Interpolating and if/else

Hannah Schick
Hannah Schick
11,524 Points
Posted by Hannah Schick
Hannah Schick
11,524 Points

Below is the code I'm putting in, but the error messages keeps telling me to change the color to red.

I'm not sure what else to change to red? What am I doing wrong?

@mixin cars ($make, $color) { .#{$make} { border: 1px solid black; background-image:url("#{$color}.png"); }

$time: morning;

a { @if $time == morning { color: red; }

@else if $time == afternoon {
    color: blue;
}

@else {
    color: gray;
}

}

}

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Sass Basics - Code Challenge</title>
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</head>
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style.scss 
/* Write your SCSS code below. */

@mixin cars ($make, $color) {
  .#{$make} {
    border: 1px solid black;
    background-image:url("#{$color}.png");
    }

$time: morning; 

a {
    @if $time == morning  {
       color: red;
    }

    @else if $time == afternoon {
        color: blue;
    }

    @else {
        color: gray;
    }

}

}

1 Answer

Samuel Key
Samuel Key
3,310 Points
Samuel Key
Samuel Key
3,310 Points

I think it was just a bit of a formatting error. It looks like you may have wrapped the entire thing inside of the mixin instead of closing the mixin and then creating the new variable and if/else directive.

@mixin cars ($make, $color) {
   .#{$make} { 
   border: 1px solid black; 
   background-image:url("#{$color}.png");
   }
}

$time: morning;

a { @if $time == morning { 
  color: red; 
  } @else if $time == afternoon {
    color: blue;
} @else {
    color: gray;
  }
}
Hannah Schick
Hannah Schick
11,524 Points
Hannah Schick
Hannah Schick
11,524 Points

Thanks for the feedback Samuel! That makes sense. Thank you for your help.