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

Posted by Ivan Burgos
Ivan Burgos
12,065 Points

Stage 4 Advanced Sass Concepts - Challenge Task 4 of 4: Having difficulty figuring out what is wrong.

I get "the color should be red" message. As far as I can tell I assigned the variable "$time:morning" correctly and made sure to use the "==" signs in the if/else statements. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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>
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style.scss 
/* Write your SCSS code below. */

@mixin cars ($make,$color) 
{
    .#{$make} {
                border: 1px solid black;
                background-image: url("images/#{$color}.png");
              }
    $time: morning;
      a {
          @if $time == morning {color: red;}         
          @else if $time == afternoon {color: blue;}
          @else {color: gray;}                   
        }
}

1 Answer

Guil Hernandez
STAFF
Guil Hernandez
Treehouse Teacher
Guil Hernandez
Guil Hernandez
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Ivan Burgos,

It looks like you're declaring the $time variable and if/else statements inside the mixin. If you write them outside the mixin, you should be good-to-go.

Hope this helps. :)

Ivan Burgos
Ivan Burgos
12,065 Points

Thanks for the fast response Guil, that worked.