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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors Defining Variables

Use the "lime" variable to set the color of every link/anchor tag on the site.

I need some help as I am stuck on this challenge question. It says to: Use the "lime" variable to set the color of every link/anchor tag on the site. My code that keeps getting rejected $lime: #090

a {color: $lime;}

I could really use some help, thanks.

3 Answers

This is passing task 2:

$lime: #090;

a {
  color: $lime;
}

Do you have semi-colon after #090 ?

I didn't. Thanks a lot. That was driving me nuts.

I was doing the same thing. Thanks!

Carole Nissen
Carole Nissen
5,655 Points

Me too!!! Thank you!!!