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

Posted by Megan Gorbet
Megan Gorbet
9,427 Points

I'm having a problem when it comes to adding the exception for <a> tags under the class of .footer

The error message just says that I am not positioning the ampersand correctly. I honestly just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong 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">
</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;
  }
  > a {
    color: blue;
    &:hover {
      opacity: 0.5;
    }
    .footer & {
      color: purple;
    }
  }
}

4 Answers

Jaro Schwab
Jaro Schwab
8,957 Points

Hey

So first: You don't need to nest it into the " > a " tree. You want to display all <a> tags in the footer div purple. Second: you need to call: div.footer & {} , not just .footer. So your code should look similar to this: 

p {
  a {
    color: red;
    div.footer & {
      color: purple;
    }
  }
  > a {
    color: blue;
    &:hover {
      opacity: 0.5;
    }
   }
  }
John McKinney
John McKinney
15,331 Points
John McKinney
John McKinney
15,331 Points

In Sass and Less, the & is a reference to the parent selector so using it in the class of footer in your code would call it on the body tag. It should look more like this:

.footer { 
  &:before {
    color: purple;
  }
}
Megan Gorbet
Megan Gorbet
9,427 Points
Megan Gorbet
Megan Gorbet
9,427 Points

I tried that, and it still gave me the same error. I changed my code so that I have the .footer class nested inside of <p> and "> a", though. Wouldn't putting the ampersand behind the .footer class translate to ".footer p > a" and target any <a> that is a direct child of <p> that is in the .footer class?

My code is now this:

p { a { color: red; }

a { color: blue; .footer & { color: purple; } &:hover { opacity: 0.5; } } }

Russ Goodman
Russ Goodman
1,939 Points
Russ Goodman
Russ Goodman
1,939 Points

I've had the same issues. I needed to put div.footer & inside my a selector. This code worked for me. Originally I tried .footer & and .footer > & and they failed, although the css functioned correctly.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nysnqwx3e2gzfqu/Screenshot%202015-09-21%2017.44.28.png