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

Steven Romano
Steven Romano
10,024 Points
Posted by Steven Romano
Steven Romano
10,024 Points

Challenge task 4 of 4

So I'm not sure where I should nest the last part of the challenge. First, is it suppose to be list this

        .footer & {
              color: purple;
             }

Next I'm not sure where it should go in the code.Does it nest inside the &:hover section?

2 Answers

Steven Romano
Steven Romano
10,024 Points
Steven Romano
Steven Romano
10,024 Points

So I got it to work, with the help of another post. But what I don't understand is why did I have to put a div in front of the .footer. My final output was like this

p {
   a {
       color: red;
      div.footer & {
          color: purple;
         }
     }
}

I understand the ampersand. but couldn't have have just gotten away with the .footer instead of div.footer

thanks

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

In practice, most likely you would use .footer by itself. This particular challenge simply wanted you to be more specific. div.footer has a higher specificity than .footer.

Jason Anello
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Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

They want you to be more specific with the selector. It's a div with a class of "footer"

It can be nested inside either the a rule or the > a rule.