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CSS Sass Basics Improve Your Workflow with Sass Write Nested Selectors

Kayla Pasciullo
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Kayla Pasciullo
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creating a nested selector in SASS with ampersand

Ive been stuck on this question googling for an answer with no success for an hour :(

heres the question: use the & to create a nested selector .icn-success and give it the color green

ive tried

.icn { font:size: 1.25em &.icn-success { color:green; } }

also tried & icn-success &-icn.success &--icn.sucess .icn-success &

please help !!! TIA

style.scss 
.banner {
  padding: 1em;
  background-color: lightgrey;
 .button {
font-size: 1.5em;
}
}

.icn {
font-size: 1.25em;
&.icn-success {
color: green;
}
}

1 Answer

Blake Larson
Blake Larson
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Blake Larson
Blake Larson
13,014 Points

You want to just continue to concat starting with the parent class.

&-success

In this example the & = .icn

To add additional examples of this using BEM

<div class="block">
  <span class="block__element"></span>
  <span class="block__element block__element--modifier"></span>
</div>

.block {
 position: relative;

 &__element {
   position: absolute;
   top: 0;
   left: 0;

   &--modifier {
     left: 50px;
   }
 }
}