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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Advanced Sass Concepts Interpolation and if/else Loops

Edwin Zhang
Edwin Zhang
3,518 Points
Posted by Edwin Zhang
Edwin Zhang
3,518 Points

Why the $time value can not be "morning"?

the right answer is
$time : morning;
Why should write like this not the "morning"?

Christian Lawrence
Christian Lawrence
3,941 Points
Christian Lawrence
Christian Lawrence
3,941 Points

Morning is not a part of CSS, unless it's a font called morning.

1 Answer

Rafael Schwemmer
Rafael Schwemmer
6,109 Points
Rafael Schwemmer
Rafael Schwemmer
6,109 Points

I struggled with this too. Basically the question is why the value of this variable $time is not surrounded by quotation marks. It seems to be a string and we are used to put strings into quotation marks in pretty much all programming languages I can think of. Should we never use quotation marks for Sass variables? I couldn't find any info on this, for example in the official documentation here: http://sass-lang.com/guide nor in the videos so far.