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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Speeding up Workflow with Sass Creating a Color Palette

Posted by MUZ140067 Precious Mutangi
MUZ140067 Precious Mutangi
13,064 Points

STAGE 3 CHALLENGE TASK 3 OF 3

Set the background of the <a> tag to be a 10% desaturated version of the variable, using the desaturate function. (HINT: desaturate works a lot like the lighten function - taking a color, then a percentage!)

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>
  <h1>Hampton's Blog</h1>
  <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. 
        </p>
      </div>
      <a href="/info.html">Read More &raquo;</a>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
style.scss 
/* Write your SCSS code below. */

a {
color:lighten(red,5%);
}

$complement:complement(red);

$background:desaturate($complement,10%);

1 Answer

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Hi Mutgani,

You just need to put background inside the selector a without $ symbol ($background), and also put $complement variable on the first line, not bottom.

Open a scope for <a> tags and make their color 5% lighter than the standard red.

a{ 
color: lighten(red, 5%);
}

Set a variable named $complement to be the complement of the standard red.

$complement: complement(red);

Set the background of the <a> tag to be a 10% desaturated version of the variable, using the desaturate function. (HINT: desaturate works a lot like the lighten function - taking a color, then a percentage!)

/* Write your SCSS code below. */

$complement: complement(red);

a{ 
color: lighten(red, 5%);
background: desaturate($complement, 10%);
}

Hope that helps :-)