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Posted by Alfredo Navas
Alfredo Navas
2,225 Points

Stuck on SASS Color Palette Challenge Task 2

Challenge 2 of 3 Set a variable "$complement" to be the complement of the standard red.

my answer:

$text-color: #FF0000; $complement: complement($text-color);

a { color: lighten($text-color, 5%);

}

i got this:

Bummer! You need to get the complement of the CSS color red.

what i'm doing wrong?

thanks

9 Answers

Joy Singharath
Joy Singharath
5,425 Points

This is probably redundant, but here is what I did.

$text-color: red; $complement: complement(red);

a { color: lighten($text-color, 5%); }

Ginelle Sutherland
Ginelle Sutherland
12,807 Points
Ginelle Sutherland
Ginelle Sutherland
12,807 Points

The answer is simple this ~ $complement: complement (red);

It took me a while to get it too :)

Dylan George
Dylan George
1,293 Points
Dylan George
Dylan George
1,293 Points

Correct Answer is:

$text-color: red; $lighter-red: lighten($text-color, 5%); $complement: complement(red);

a { color: $lighter-red; }

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points
Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points

It may be being picky as you wrote out the hex value rather than "red".

Or, if you are meant to complement red specifically rather than the already set $text-colour (even though that is also red).

Alfredo Navas
Alfredo Navas
2,225 Points
Alfredo Navas
Alfredo Navas
2,225 Points

Thank you guys !

Joy Singharath
Joy Singharath
5,425 Points
Joy Singharath
Joy Singharath
5,425 Points

You're welcome! Glad I could help! =)

ellie adam
ellie adam
26,377 Points
ellie adam
ellie adam
26,377 Points

$complement: complement (red);

Jean-Pierre Robak
Jean-Pierre Robak
5,288 Points
Jean-Pierre Robak
Jean-Pierre Robak
5,288 Points

if for arguments sake i also assigned $text-color as red, then why does $complement: complement($text-color); not work, why do you HAVE to use $complement: complement(red); ? I'm very confused...