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

Michael Lawinger
Michael Lawinger
33,581 Points
Posted by Michael Lawinger
Michael Lawinger
33,581 Points

Make A Class With Mixin

The Question is: The mixin should use the value in $make as the name of a new class. The class should have a 1px solid black border.

I'm confused at this point I don't remember it even being covered in the video.

index.html 
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<head>
  <title>Sass Basics - Code Challenge</title>
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</head>
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style.scss 
/* Write your SCSS code below. */

@mixin cars($make, $color) {
@include make {border: 1px solid black}
}

3 Answers

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

You'll need to use interpolation, as the video covered.

@mixin cars($make, $color) {
  .#{$make} {
    border: 1px solid black;
  }
}

I put a period in front of the #{$make} because the period represents that it's a class. For example, if the variable $make is "tesla", #{$make} will be replaced with tesla in the CSS file.

I hope this helps! :grin:

~Alex

Michael Lawinger
Michael Lawinger
33,581 Points
Michael Lawinger
Michael Lawinger
33,581 Points

Awesome. Makes sense! I'm having a hard time with another one which says: 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.

This is my code now:

@mixin cars($make, $color) {
  .#{$make} {
    border: 1px solid black;
    background-image: url("#{$color}.png");
  }
  a {
  $time: morning;
  if morning (color: red);
  if else afternoon (color: blue);
  else (color: gray);
  }
}
Michael Lawinger
Michael Lawinger
33,581 Points
Michael Lawinger
Michael Lawinger
33,581 Points

I changed it a little and I think I'm a lot closer but it's saying: The @if statement needs to evaluate the value of the $time variable.

 a {
  @if == $time: morning {
  color: red;
  }
  @if else == $time === afternoon {
  color: blue;
  }
  @else {
  color: blue;
  }