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CSS Sass Basics Write Smart and Efficient CSS with Sass Write a Sass Function

Jennifer Moodie
Jennifer Moodie
5,193 Points
Posted by Jennifer Moodie
Jennifer Moodie
5,193 Points

why won't it covert the pixels to rems

I have followed all the steps but it still gives an error? why?

style.scss 
$base-font-size: 16px;

// Write your function here

@function px-to-rem ($target, $context: $base-font-size) {
  @return ($target / $context) * 1rem;
}

h1 {
  font-size: px-to-rem (60px);
}

1 Answer

martinjones1
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martinjones1
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martinjones1
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martinjones1
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Very close, you just need to remove the space in the function, so the updated code is:

$base-font-size: 16px;

// Write your function here

@function px-to-rem ($target, $context: $base-font-size) {
  @return ($target / $context) * 1rem;
}

h1 {
  font-size: px-to-rem(60px);
}
Jennifer Moodie
Jennifer Moodie
5,193 Points
Jennifer Moodie
Jennifer Moodie
5,193 Points

is that all?? out of all the the things I tried haha :) Thank you so much!!