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

Posted by Donald Richmond
Donald Richmond
13,807 Points

How do I correctly set the opacity for this attribute?

How do I correctly set opacity here?

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">
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style.scss 
/* Write your SCSS code below. */
p {a  {color: red;  }   }
p { > a  {color: blue;  }   
    &:hover {opacity: .5;  }
  }

2 Answers

Will Long
Will Long
5,449 Points
Will Long
Will Long
5,449 Points

Well, in your style.scss, there is the element opacity, just change the number, hope that helps.

Donald Richmond
Donald Richmond
13,807 Points
Donald Richmond
Donald Richmond
13,807 Points

I am thinking opacity is a property of the link element which I can change to opacity. Is that NOT the case?