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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Advanced Sass Concepts Advanced Mixin Arguments

Posted by Matt Ferguson
Matt Ferguson
19,404 Points

Why is this incorrect?

I am having issues with the following questions "Define a box class. Use the square mixin to give it a height and width of 10px, and set the border to red."

Here is my code..

/* Write your SCSS code below. */
@mixin square($size, $color: black;) {
    height: $size;
        width: $size;
        border: 1px solid $color;
}

    .box {
    @include square(10px, red);
}

Here is the response I am getting... "Bummer! The <div> with the class .box should have a red border. Did you include the square mixin correctly?"

I cannot figure out where I have made a mistake.

4 Answers

Staffan Mowitz
Staffan Mowitz
17,079 Points
Staffan Mowitz
Staffan Mowitz
17,079 Points

I think it's the semi-colon after $color: black in your mixin declaration that causes the problem.

Staffan Mowitz
Staffan Mowitz
17,079 Points
Staffan Mowitz
Staffan Mowitz
17,079 Points

I don't really know what you mean by "closing that class". The whole mixin declaration should look like this:

@mixin square($size, $color: black){
height: $size;
width: $size;
border: 1px solid $color;
}
Mireille Pasos
Mireille Pasos
35,469 Points
Mireille Pasos
Mireille Pasos
35,469 Points

are you closing that class? I don't see a closing curly bracket in your code.

Mireille Pasos
Mireille Pasos
35,469 Points
Mireille Pasos
Mireille Pasos
35,469 Points

Hi,

Yeah I was talking about the part of the code where Matt included the mixin in the class, because I only saw this:

.box { @include square(10px, red);

But I just looked at it again and saw the curly bracket is there, just for some reason outside the code box in the post. Anywho, I think you're right, I just saw the semicolon you mentioned.