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

Patrick Feger
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Patrick Feger
Courses Plus Student 2,015 Points
Posted by Patrick Feger
Patrick Feger
Courses Plus Student 2,015 Points

What is the correct scss for the final step in this code tutorial?

I know I need to use .footer followed by an ampersand:

.footer & { color: purple; }

I'm just not sure where it goes. I thought it made sent to put it inside of:

& a { color: red; }

... but it is not working. Can someone help + give a good explanation as to how things are cascading here?

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>
  <h1>Hampton's Blog</h1>
  <div class="entry">
    <h1><a href="#">Delicious Food in SF</a></h1>
    <div class="content">
      <p>
        You know what my favorite restaurant in San Francisco is? The answer is that there are so many great restaurants that I couldn't choose one. But honorable mentions include <a href="#">Mr. Chow's</a>, <a href="#">Live Sushi</a> and <a href="#">Piccino</a>. 
        <span class="link"><a href="/info.html">Read More</a></span>
      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="entry">
    <h1><a href="#">Great Music</a></h1>
    <div class="content">
      <p>
        Here are some of my favorite bands from years past and present: Belle and Sebastian, Pixies, and Daft Punk. Listening to music allows me to focus when I'm programming. 
        <span class="link"><a href="/info.html">Read More</a></span>
      </p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="footer">
    <p>
      Thanks for reading my blog!  Be sure to check out my <a href="#">other articles</a>.
    </p>
  </div>
</body>
</html>
style.scss 
/* Write your SCSS code below. */

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

2 Answers

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points
Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points

Your nesting is correct, It just looks like the challenge wants you to be explicit that it's a div with the class of footer:

/* ... */
    div.footer & {
      color: purple;
    }
/* ... */
Michael Tribone
Michael Tribone
6,062 Points
Michael Tribone
Michael Tribone
6,062 Points

I haven't gotten to this stage yet, but if I look at your nesting it looks like it reads that the parent element is an anchor element. So unless .footer is a child of the anchor element, it isn't going to work. If you are trying to just style the .footer element, I don't see why it would be so deeply nested under the paragraph element.

Dan Johnson's answer above should work provided that it isn't nested inside of the paragraph element.