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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Advanced Sass Concepts Advanced Mixin Arguments

task 5 of 6

Design a mixin (called "rainbow") that can take any number of colors via the argument $colors.... Within the mixin, use the loop @each $color in $colors to create a class named after each color, and set its background to the corresponding color.

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>
  <div class="box"></div>
  <div class="red"></div>
  <div class="orange"></div>
  <div class="yellow"></div>
  <div class="green"></div>
</body>
</html>
style.scss
/* Write your SCSS code below. */
@mixin square($size, $color)
{
    height: $size;
    width: $size;
    border: 1px solid $color;
}
@mixin square($size, $color: black){
width: $size; 
height: $size; 
border: 1px solid $color;  
 }

.box { @include square(10px, red) };
.box {
  @include square($color:red, $size: 10px);
}.#{$color}

@mixin rainbow($colors...) {
    @each $color in $colors {
  .#{$color} {
   background: $color; }
  }
}

2 Answers

I think your problem is just above where you have

.#{$color}

You create a call for the class color, but then don't open or close it.

This worked for me. I just added a space after rainbow. @mixin rainbow ($colors...) { @each $color in $colors { .#{$color} { background: $color; } } }