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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Getting Started with Sass Advanced Nesting

Posted by Shabbir Hussain
Shabbir Hussain
12,292 Points

We want to add an exception for <a> tags that are are in the <div> with a class of .footer: those links should be purple

Code not working correct p { a { color:red; }

a { color:blue; &:hover { opacity:0.5; } & .footer { color:purple; } } }

3 Answers

Shabbir Hussain
Shabbir Hussain
12,292 Points
Shabbir Hussain
Shabbir Hussain
12,292 Points

Thanks Seth but got the answer The question says to use class .footer with div, so in my posted code it goes this way, div.footer & (declare this in the p tag inside that a tag and inside that div.footer) That's it... But thanks anyways...

Seth Barthen
Seth Barthen
11,266 Points
Seth Barthen
Seth Barthen
11,266 Points

have you tried nesting this within that class of footer? i've noticed that <a> elements can be weird sometimes and need more specificity than normal tags like your h1's and p's.

maybe something like this... this is Sass based btw

.footer { a { color: purple; (also look up the hex for your purple, some browsers interpret purple to be a different shade) } &:hover { opactiy: 0.5; } }

hopefully that works :)