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

Adam Wheatley
Adam Wheatley
16,182 Points
Posted by Adam Wheatley
Adam Wheatley
16,182 Points

[SOLVED] Challenge Task 4

I keep getting an error message saying, "The generated file name needs to end with ‘.png’. It looks like my code for that file does end with .png, but maybe I'm missing something?

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");
  }
}

$time: morning;

@if ($time == "morning") {
  a {
    color: red;
  }
} @else if ($time == "afternoon") {
    a {
      color: blue;
    }
  } @else {
      color: gray;
    }
Adam Wheatley
Adam Wheatley
16,182 Points
Adam Wheatley
Adam Wheatley
16,182 Points

Nevermind! I figured out that after removing the parentheses in my if and else/if statements, as well as the quotations around "morning" and "afternoon", the code works fine. Guess I was reverting back to JavaScript.

Robert Richey
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 Points

Edited for solved

1 Answer

Devin Scheu
Devin Scheu
66,191 Points
Devin Scheu
Devin Scheu
66,191 Points

For those who are stuck on the same challenge here is the answer:

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

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