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

Having trouble passing the last challenge question in 'Getting Started with Sass'. Please help.

The question is…"We want to add an exception for <a tags that are in the <div with a class of footer: those links should be purple. Use a post selector ampersand to achieve this.

The code I put is

/* Write your SCSS code below. */
p{

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

  }
  .footer &{
    color:purple;
  }

}

What am I doing wrong?

1 Answer

Keith Kelly
Keith Kelly
21,326 Points

I think that the challenge wants you to specify the div element along with the footer class. I think the first time I ran through this challenge I did the same thing.

/* Write your SCSS code below. */
p{
  a{
    color: red;
  }
  > a {
    color: blue;
    &:hover {
      opacity: 0.5;
    }
    div.footer & {
      color: purple;
    }
  }
}

Yup, that's it. Thanks!

Mason Embry
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Mason Embry
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 31,420 Points

Thank you. That solved it. Technically, we don't have to do that, right? Selecting ".footer" will select the same thing as "div.footer," right?

Mason