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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Getting Started with Sass Advanced Nesting

Posted by Chris Mursheno
Chris Mursheno
Courses Plus Student 3,017 Points

Stuck on Code Challenge Question#3 on Getting Started with Sass

The Code challenge prompts me to add a style to our previous Sass code declaring on hover all direct children have an opacity of "0.5"; Additionally, I'm to use the "&" instead of the ">" again; So I have:

'p{ color: blue; a{ color: red;}

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>
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</body>
</html>
style.scss 
/* Write your SCSS code below. */
p{
  color:blue;
    a{
      color:red;}
      >a{
        color: blue;}
          &:hover{
            opacity: 0.5;
            }
         }
    }

1 Answer

Jason Anello
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Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Chris,

You have 1 extra closing curly brace which would lead to a syntax error.

Aside from that, &:hover is correct but you want to have that nested inside of the direct child link selector. You closed that off too early.

The selector that you're trying to achieve is p > a:hover

Also, you have a color: blue; style nested within the paragraph rule, 3rd line in your scss. Although it will pass the challenge, this should not be in there because it will make all paragraphs blue.