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CSS

Posted by Pierre Villanueva
Pierre Villanueva
6,545 Points

Sass Basics: Advanced Nesting code challenge

We want to add a style to our previous Sass code declaring that on hover, all direct <a> children have an opacity of 0.5. Use the ampersand selector to achieve this, rather than repeating the '> a' direct child selector.

I entered: 

p {
    a {
    color: red;
  }
}
p > a {
    color:blue;
        &:hover {
        opacity: 0.5;
        }
}

What am I doing wrong? I double checked the video and my syntax seems okay.

7 Answers

Michel van Essen
Michel van Essen
8,077 Points
Michel van Essen
Michel van Essen
8,077 Points 
p { 
    a { 
        color: red; 
        } 
    }    
p { 
    > a { 
        color: blue; 
        &:hover { 
            opacity: 0.5; 
            } 
        } 
    }

you forgot some curly brackets

OR BETTER

p {
    a {
        color: red;
        }
    > a {
        color: blue;
        &:hover {
            opacity: 0.5;
        }
    }
}

since you can just next >a inside the p{ rather than repeating.

Brian Heil
Brian Heil
1,539 Points
Brian Heil
Brian Heil
1,539 Points

I think it's because you don't need the "p" in "p > a" (since you are already nesting inside the p selector.

Pierre Villanueva
Pierre Villanueva
6,545 Points
Pierre Villanueva
Pierre Villanueva
6,545 Points

I appreciate everyone's help. Thank You!

Lauren Gray
Lauren Gray
5,576 Points
Lauren Gray
Lauren Gray
5,576 Points

Thanks for the help guys. I had the same issue with this.

Cedric Bell
Cedric Bell
10,712 Points
Cedric Bell
Cedric Bell
10,712 Points

Thanks Michael, I was stuck on that one.

Cedric Bell
Cedric Bell
10,712 Points
Cedric Bell
Cedric Bell
10,712 Points

Thanks Michael, I was stuck on that one.

Justin Galicic
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Justin Galicic
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 31,655 Points
Justin Galicic
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Justin Galicic
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 31,655 Points

Ugh. I had opacity set to .5 instead of 0.5 and couldn't figure out why it wasn't passing.