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

Posted by kathrynpeterson
kathrynpeterson
16,001 Points

Okay, what am I missing here? (This code challenge does NOT relate to "objective C" or iOS!) This is for Sass.

I seen to be stuck on this code challenge question. I either get an error message that the .png is missing when it isn't, or else I get an error message that says I didn't define the $time: "morning" variable when I did. I'm sure it's some stupid syntactical thing I'm missing, but I just don't see what it is. HELP!

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. */
@mixin cars($make, $color) {
  .#{$make} {
  border: 1px solid black;
  background-image: url("images/#{$color}.png");
  }
}
$time: "morning";
a {
  @if($time == "morning") {
  color: red;
  } @if else($time == "afternoon") {
  color: blue;
  } @else {
  color: gray;
  }
}

1 Answer

eck
eck
43,038 Points

It looks like you have syntax errors in your conditional statements.

This is what the correct sass should look like:

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

Take a look at the sass docs for @if/@else to see some other correct examples and more details :D

kathrynpeterson
kathrynpeterson
16,001 Points

Thanks, Erik! I do see that I had the "else if" backward in the middle of the statement. I also discovered, after a bit more frustration and flailing, that I needed to remove the quotation marks from around "morning" and "afternoon," (and the parens, though I had been trying that both ways) and then it worked! It always seems to be the small stuff, doesn't it?