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

Qasim Hafeez
Qasim Hafeez
12,731 Points
Posted by Qasim Hafeez
Qasim Hafeez
12,731 Points

Code Challenge: Question about Task 4

Why is it necessary to add 'div.footer' for the code to work? I had typed the code in the correct format but with just '.footer' and could not understand why it would not work. Does anyone know why?

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>
  <h1>Hampton's Blog</h1>
  <div class="entry">
    <h1><a href="#">Delicious Food in SF</a></h1>
    <div class="content">
      <p>
        You know what my favorite restaurant in San Francisco is? The answer is that there are so many great restaurants that I couldn't choose one. But honorable mentions include <a href="#">Mr. Chow's</a>, <a href="#">Live Sushi</a> and <a href="#">Piccino</a>. 
        <span class="link"><a href="/info.html">Read More</a></span>
      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="entry">
    <h1><a href="#">Great Music</a></h1>
    <div class="content">
      <p>
        Here are some of my favorite bands from years past and present: Belle and Sebastian, Pixies, and Daft Punk. Listening to music allows me to focus when I'm programming. 
        <span class="link"><a href="/info.html">Read More</a></span>
      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="footer">
    <p>
      Thanks for reading my blog!  Be sure to check out my <a href="#">other articles</a>.
    </p>
  </div>
</body>
</html>
style.scss 
/* Write your SCSS code below. */

p{
  a{
    color: red;
  }

  >a{
    color:blue;
    &:hover{
      opacity: 0.5;
    }
  }

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

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

In this case, since the element with the class of footer is the only element with that class, technically your code would work, but these code challenges do sometimes look for a very specific answer, and specifying the div in your selector effects the specifificity of the style. Because once you do that you tell the browser to a look for any divs with that specific class.

And if you read the challenge it is a div element it is looking for. :-)