I need a little help for SASS Stage 1 challenge / task 4

Oh okay. Due to your code not being markdown some of the icons like.. ">" does not exist where it suppose to be. You did it almost right, since you are nesting the footer selector in the a you have to add "div" before it, as it asks "add an exception for <a> tags that are in the <div> with a class of .footer: those links should be purple. "

so,

p {
   a {
     color: red;
      div.footer & { <!-- added div here -->
      color:purple;
    }
   }
   > a { <!-- fixed the child anchor -->
     color: blue;
     &:hover {
       opacity: 0.5;
     }
   }
 }

I hope this helps.

The question says...

Use a nested selector to say all <a> tags within <p> tags are red.", which makes me wonder why did you add purple and blue...since it is just the 1st task and it doesn't asks for all that. Try simplifying it, to just what it asks i.e.

p { 
  a {
   color: red; 
    } 
}

There are four tasks in challenge one. The fourth one is what I cannot solve. I finished the previous 3 tasks.

The 4th task is.:

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.

Thank you Gloria for you as well! I had the child anchor selected but for some reasons Treehouse did not display the greater than sign after pasting.

Thank you also for the info how I can paste my code into the forum! It is very useful!

Thank you both, Alex & Gloria! And thank you, Kristof, for asking the question, too!!

I've been fighting with that exact same problem for the last two hours! I even went through the SVG files for both videos trying to figure out where he'd described the process & was getting ready to post about it myself. Then I found this.

In my case, what I missed was that the div.footer & went under the original a & not in a new tag by itself. Basically, I confused it with CSS styling. 'Cause I'm a dork like that.