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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%);
Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points
Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

It appears you have posted this question 3 times I am leaving this one and removing the others.

1 Answer

Wameedh Mohammed Ali
Wameedh Mohammed Ali
16,572 Points
Wameedh Mohammed Ali
Wameedh Mohammed Ali
16,572 Points

Hey there,

As the lighten function, it takes tow parameters. The first one is the color and, the second is the percentage of the lighten for that color. with the saturation we do the same by passing the variable $complement with stored the color that is complement to the red and the we pass the percentage that we want our color to be saturated to which is 10% here.

Here is the code:

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

Thank you & happy coding :)