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CSS Modular CSS with Sass Getting Modular with Mixins and Functions Colors with Sass Maps

Posted by tian jin
tian jin
Courses Plus Student 5,162 Points

the '#' is used for concatenation in sass? and what the '&' means?

@mixin bg-colors($map) { @each $theme, $color in $map { &--#{$theme} { background-color: $color;
} } }

1 Answer

Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,288 Points
Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,288 Points

& selects the previous selector, so, if your code is nested inside a list item and you use &:hover then it basically means li:hover