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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors Extending Selectors

STAGE 2 CHALLENGE TASK 1 OF 3

Style the class .animals to have a background of #369. Use "extend" to apply those styles to a new class, .dogs.

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="animals">
    Animals
  </div>
  <div class="dogs">
    Dogs
  </div>
  <div class="message_box">
    My favorite animals are: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog" target="_blank">Dogs!</a>
  </div>
</body>
</html>
style.scss
/* Write your SCSS code below. */
.animals {
background:#369;
.dogs {
extend .animals;
}}

1 Answer

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Let's look at the general syntax of the @extend directive in Sass.

.foo {
  color: blue;
  border: 1px solid black;
}

.bar {
 @extend .foo
}

This will extend the CSS properties in the foo class to the bar class.

Post back if you are still stuck on the challenge.

Ken