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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors The Power of Mixins

Posted by Blake Bush
Blake Bush
5,009 Points

I need some help to figure this problem out.

Write a new definition for the "button" mixin, which takes two arguments: $color and $size. The background should be set using the value in the $color variable, and the width should be set using the $size variable. The height should be half of the value in the $size variable.

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style.scss 
/* Write your SCSS code below. */
@mixin button ($color 8px, $size 8px) {
background: 8px;
width: 8px;
height: 4px;
}

2 Answers

lakindujayathilaka
lakindujayathilaka
15,244 Points

Hello...this is the complete answer for the challenge

/* Write your SCSS code below. */
@mixin button($color,$size) {
background: $color;
width: $size;
height: $size/2;
}

.menu_button{
@include button(#369, 50px)
}

Please mark my answer as the best if i managed to help u

Blake Bush
Blake Bush
5,009 Points

To Lakindu Jayathilaka thanks brother being that i am a visual person to see how you went about that really helped.

Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,725 Points
Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,725 Points

When using Sass mixins, the style is executed in two steps. The first is the mixin itself where you define the name, what styles you're going to set, the variables the mixin takes, and then where those variables fall in the style definition. The second is calling the mixin on the element you'd like to style while passing the mixin its needed variables.

To satisfy this question you just need to create the mixin and its variables and tell Sass where those variables will be used in the style definition. The format is:

@mixin mixin-name ($var1, $var2) {
   style-one: $var1;
   style-two: $var2;
}

When you're ready to use this mixin:

.my-div {
   @include mixin-name(style-one-val, style-two-val);
}

Check out the Sass Guide for more information.