I'm having trouble getting through Challenge Task 2 of 2 "use a parent selector reference for the active variation"

Wayne - thanks for the reply. I managed to complete the challenge question with this:

.menu {
    margin: 1em 0;

    &__link {
        color: blue;
        padding: .5em;

        &--active {
            color: red;
        }
    }
}

Whereas (as I recall, this was the other nite) I was trying to something like this:

.menu {
    margin: 1em 0;

    &__link {
        color: blue;
        padding: .5em;
     }

    &__link--active {
         color: red;
    }
  }

... which was not passing your compiler. I haven't had a chance to test whether or not this is a limitation with Sass, or whether it is only a quirk with your testing sandbox here. Do you know? Thanks

Hi Josh,

The reason your code didn't pass was because you had a closing bracket before &__link--active so there was no parent to select, so you get __link--active.
By removing that closing bracket as you did in the code that passed, you allowed the parent to be selected, so &__link--active translated to .menu__link--active.

Hope this helps.

Just for anyone else who got stuck on this trying to write &:active instead of &--active, it's easy to be misled into thinking they mean the :active pseudo-class instead of a new --modifier BEM class - I got hung up on this for a while.