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

Posted by MUZ140018 Sibusisosenkosi Moyo
MUZ140018 Sibusisosenkosi Moyo
8,693 Points

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Challenge Task 4 of 4

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 the post-selector ampersand to achieve this.

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;
}
}
p{
>a{
color:blue;
&:hover{
opacity:0.5;
}
}
}
p {
  a {
    color:red;
    div.footer & {
         color:purple;
     }  
  }

2 Answers

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

There's a little bit of code overkill in your attempt but you're almost there.

It's asking for an exception for the .footer class that's inside an anchor but you've already got one there in your SCSS, so...

p {
   a {
    color: red;
   }

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

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

}

is all you need. :-)

Hope this helps

Alex Heil
Alex Heil
53,547 Points
Alex Heil
Alex Heil
53,547 Points

hey, with your code you're actually pretty close to the right answer, just 2 minor issues and you'll be good to go:

1) you're duplicating the first rule at the bottom and then extend it, you only should have one instance at the top with the full code.

2) your second code block - which correctly uses the post-selector ampersand is missing a closing bracket. if you're going to count you'll see that there are 3 opening brackets but only 2 closing one's. if you add that in the code will be fine.

here's the full code:

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

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