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

James Barrett
James Barrett
13,253 Points
Posted by James Barrett
James Barrett
13,253 Points

Why did my SASS code not pass this challenge?

On part 2 of the challenge, we are required to: 'Add another nested selector which makes all <a> tags that are direct children of <p> tags blue.'

Code that didn't pass:

p {
 a {
  color: red;
 }
   > a {
    color: blue;
  }
}

Code that passed:

p {
 a {
  color: red;
 }
   > a {
    color: blue;
  }
}

Why did putting the '>' selector after the initial nested selector pass? Do both code snippets produce different outputs?

Thanks, James.

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

What's the difference between the two code snippets?

1 Answer

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

your code snippets are the same, but it sounds like you tried putting the direct selector first and it didn't accept that (which I just confirmed). It seems like one of those times where the yest was just looking for a specific way of doing something. Since it asked you to add it, it assumed you would add it after what you did in the previous step, is my best gust.