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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Advanced Sass Concepts Interpolating and if/else

Posted by Blake Bush
Blake Bush
5,009 Points

I need some help please.

Underneath the previous code, store the value morning in a variable named $time. Then write an if/else directive that will color all <a> tags. If the variable $time is equal to morning, the color should be red. Otherwise, if the variable is afternoon, the color should be blue. Finally, if the variable is set to anything else, the color should be gray.

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>
  <div class="wrap">
    <h1>Hampton's Blog</h1>
    <ul id="menu">
      <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">About Hampton</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Hampton's Work</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div class="entry">
      <h1>Delicious Food in SF</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 Mr. Chow's, Live Sushi and Piccino. 
          <a href="/info.html">Read More</a>
        </p>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="entry">
      <h1>Great Music</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. 
            <a href="/info.html">Read More</a>
          </p>
        </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>
style.scss 
/* Write your SCSS code below. */
$time: morning;
a {
  @if $time == morning {
    color: red;
  } @else if $time == afternoon {
    color: blue;
  } @else {
    color: gray;
  }
}

2 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi Blake,

I think (by looking at the code posted) that you may have deleted the code from the first 3 tasks in the challenge. I copied you code snippet above and pasted it after the code I put in for tasks 1, 2, and 3, and it passed, so your code is correct.

Here is the complete code needed for task 4 (posting it because your code is correct, just missing your previous code lines).

@mixin cars($make, $color){
  .#{$make} {
    border:1px solid black;
    background-image: url("img/#{$color}.png")
  }
}

$time: morning;

a {
  @if $time == morning {
    color: red;
  } @else if $time == afternoon {
    color: blue;
  } @else {
    color: gray;
  }
}
Blake Bush
Blake Bush
5,009 Points

Jason Anders Thank you very much i am very appreciative i was almost pulling my hair out on this one.

Blake Bush
Blake Bush
5,009 Points

Hi Sergey Podgornyy,

Thanks for the link i have looked at that one and many other references and tryed everything and still it says im not doing something correctly.