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

Aaron HARPT
Aaron HARPT
19,845 Points
Posted by Aaron HARPT
Aaron HARPT
19,845 Points

Sass basics question

I am having an issue with this sass basics code challenge:

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.

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("#{$color}.png");

  }
}

var $time: morning;

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

1 Answer

jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points
jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points

Hey Aaron,

Few issues in your code. First, the var keyword is not needed when declaring a variable. Sass uses just the $ symbol to make something a variable. Secondly, you can refactor your code so that you are only selecting the a tag once, instead of three times.

Example:

$time: morning;

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