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Alfredo Navas
2,225 PointsStuck 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
5,425 PointsThis is probably redundant, but here is what I did.
$text-color: red; $complement: complement(red);
a { color: lighten($text-color, 5%); }
Ginelle Sutherland
12,807 PointsThe answer is simple this ~ $complement: complement (red);
It took me a while to get it too :)
Dylan George
1,293 PointsCorrect Answer is:
$text-color: red; $lighter-red: lighten($text-color, 5%); $complement: complement(red);
a { color: $lighter-red; }
Tom Bedford
15,645 PointsIt 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
2,225 PointsThank you guys !
Joy Singharath
5,425 PointsYou're welcome! Glad I could help! =)
Raymundo Figueroa
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 25,606 PointsTHX;
$text-color: red; $complement: complement(red);
a { color:lighten($text-color, 5%); }
ellie adam
26,377 Points$complement: complement (red);
Jean-Pierre Robak
5,288 Pointsif 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...