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

Luigi Rulloda
Luigi Rulloda
6,175 Points
Posted by Luigi Rulloda
Luigi Rulloda
6,175 Points

Please help

I dont know where to place the ampersand

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>
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  <div class="entry">
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    <div class="content">
      <p>
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      </p>
    </div>
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    <div class="content">
      <p>
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      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="footer">
    <p>
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    </p>
  </div>
</body>
</html>
style.scss 
/* Write your SCSS code below. */
p {
  a {
    color: red;
  }
  > a {
    color: blue;
  }

}

2 Answers

Luciano Bruzzoni
Luciano Bruzzoni
15,518 Points
Luciano Bruzzoni
Luciano Bruzzoni
15,518 Points

Hey, I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish exactly, but hopefully this helps. The & is used to grab all the parent nodes path, so in the a tag example you provided to do a hover on it you would write

a{
  color: red;
  &:hover{
    color: blue;
  }
}

that translates to a:hover and since there is also a p nested above that, it would be p a:hover.

if you had something like

div{
  p{
    a{
      &:hover{
      }
    }  
  }
}

it would read as div p a:hover!

hope that helped, if not ask away

Luigi Rulloda
Luigi Rulloda
6,175 Points
Luigi Rulloda
Luigi Rulloda
6,175 Points

Ok now it makes sense thank you so much