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CSS

Tiago Pinheiro
Tiago Pinheiro
10,622 Points
Posted by Tiago Pinheiro
Tiago Pinheiro
10,622 Points

Code Challenge 1 Stage 3 Sass. I'm stuck here!

Set the background of the <a> tag to be a 10% desaturated version of the variable, using the desaturate function. (HINT: desaturate works a lot like the lighten function - taking a color, then a percentage!)

I put:

$background: red; $complement: complement (red);

a { color: lighten($background, 5%); background: desaturate($complement, 10%);
}

but apparently there is a mistake.

2 Answers

Ben Rubin
PLUS
Ben Rubin
Courses Plus Student 14,658 Points
Ben Rubin
Ben Rubin
Courses Plus Student 14,658 Points

Try removing the space before the parenthesis in complement (red);

Ginelle Sutherland
Ginelle Sutherland
12,807 Points
Ginelle Sutherland
Ginelle Sutherland
12,807 Points

background: desaturate ($complement, 10%);