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Posted by Megan Weber
Megan Weber
28,554 Points

Sass for loop error

I'm trying to use a for loop to append values to my list variable, ra. This is my code:

$ra: ();
@for $i from 1 through 10 {
    append($ra, $i, comma);
}

I'm getting this error:

Error: expected "{".
        append($ra, $i, comma);
  style.scss 3:24  root stylesheet

2 Answers

Rich Donnellan
MOD
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,708 Points
Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,708 Points

What are you trying to accomplish? The @for loop expects some kind of CSS output. It seems like you're just trying to programmatically store the values 1-10 in a variable.

Megan Weber
Megan Weber
28,554 Points

Yes. I wanted to store different shadows in the list & after the loop set an element's box-shadow property to the list. I got the same error when I tried that, so I thought I should simplify the code until I get the loop working.

Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,708 Points
Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,708 Points

Gotcha! Can you link me to a snapshot (e.g. Workspace, Codepen, Sassmeister, etc) of your full code? I can try to help you work this out.

This blog post might be of help: https://hugogiraudel.com/2013/07/15/understanding-sass-lists/

Megan Weber
Megan Weber
28,554 Points

After reading the article, I tried assigning the value returned by append() to $ra, & it worked! Thanks for your help :)

Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,708 Points
Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,708 Points

Awesome! Can you post as an answer what worked on the off chance it might help someone else here?

Megan Weber
Megan Weber
28,554 Points
Megan Weber
Megan Weber
28,554 Points

I just needed to assign the value returned by append() to $ra.