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

Michael Lawinger
Michael Lawinger
33,581 Points
Posted by Michael Lawinger
Michael Lawinger
33,581 Points

Create a rule that targets the class box. Use the square mixin to set the height and width of .box to 50px and the borde

Create a rule that targets the class box. Use the square mixin to set the height and width of .box to 50px and the border color to red.

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

.box {
  @include square(50px, red);
}

5 Answers

Camille Viva
Camille Viva
18,334 Points
Camille Viva
Camille Viva
18,334 Points

I think it's because the first thing your mixin function does, is change the $color variable to black (line 2 in your code).

So you need to have a css attribute "color" whose value is the variable $color, rather than setting the variable $color to the value black...see line 2 below:

@mixin square($size, $color) {
  color: $color;
  height: $size;
  width: $size;
  border: 1px solid $color;
}

.box {
  @include square(50px, red);
}
ELYACOUBI Abderrahim
ELYACOUBI Abderrahim
8,693 Points
ELYACOUBI Abderrahim
ELYACOUBI Abderrahim
8,693 Points

I have below response : @mixin square($size, $color:black) {

height: $size; width: $size; border: 1px solid $color; }

.box { @include square($size:50px,$color:red); }

Hayley Risley
Hayley Risley
9,510 Points
Hayley Risley
Hayley Risley
9,510 Points

I think that is has to do with the spacing between the mixin square and where you start to define the mixin. See below for code. .box { @include square (50px, red){} }

Michael Lawinger
Michael Lawinger
33,581 Points
Michael Lawinger
Michael Lawinger
33,581 Points

Sorry, that wasn't it, the error said to keep the default as black. What's the way around changing it in the include for the box for the border property?

Pratik Patil
PLUS
Pratik Patil
Courses Plus Student 6,627 Points
Pratik Patil
Pratik Patil
Courses Plus Student 6,627 Points

''' @mixin square($size, $color:black) { height: $size; width: $size; border: 1px solid $color; }

.box { @include square( 50px, red ); } '''