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CSS Sass Basics Add Reusable Logic to Your Sass Advanced Mixins Challenge

David Moorhead
David Moorhead
18,005 Points
Posted by David Moorhead
David Moorhead
18,005 Points

Your help is appreciated for a SASS @function that's beyond my scope in Task 4 of 4.

Here are the instructions for Challenge Task 4 of 4. Thank You for helping.

Switch the order of the square arguments. Be sure to specify the variable for each argument.

style.scss 
@mixin square ($color: black, $size) {
  border: 1px solid $color; 
  height: $size;
  width: $size;
  }
.box { @include square(red, 50px); }

/*-- the bummer read: The mixin should take 2 parameters, '$size' and '$color'.

This is the answer that passed Task 3 of 4:

@mixin square ($size, $color: black) {
  height: $size;
  width: $size;
  border: 1px solid $color; 
  }
.box { @include square(50px, red); } --*/

2 Answers

trio-group I.AM
trio-group I.AM
25,713 Points

Hi David,

I feel like the instructions are confusing you a little bit. You have switched the order of the parameters in the mixin but you are actually supposed to switch the order of the arguments you are passing in your @include.

Fix the mixin (use the code that passed before) and only switch the order of your arguments. Of course, in order for the code to work properly you need to tell the mixin that you are passing color first and then size ("Be sure to specify the variable for each argument").

Hope this helps.

David Moorhead
David Moorhead
18,005 Points
David Moorhead
David Moorhead
18,005 Points

THANK YOU, trio interactive! What you wrote here was an understatement. :)

I feel like the instructions are confusing you a little bit.

It will take me still more study and practice to understand SASS, that is, beyond a certain point.

David