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

Marston Gould
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Marston Gould
PHP Development Techdegree Student 17,314 Points
Posted by Marston Gould
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Marston Gould
PHP Development Techdegree Student 17,314 Points

Sass Compile error on mixin

Working on last section of Sass and have been stumped on 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.

The error I get is: Bummer! The color should be set to red

My entry:

@mixin cars($make, $color)
  {
    .#{$make} {
    border: 1px solid black;
    background-image: url("img/#{$color}.png");} }   

$time: morning;   

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

I've run this through SassMeister and it appears to work.

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Marston,

You don't have to write a mixin for the last part. Also, the if/else directive should be nested inside the a block.

$time: morning;   

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