FAQ: Your First Sass Stylesheet - Nesting Selectors

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Nesting Selectors” exercise from the lesson “Your First Sass Stylesheet”.

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I’m wondering if this is an error in this lesson. In the instructions, two code blocks are shown, one in Sass and one in CSS. The latter is supposed to be a “translation” of the former, but I think it’s missing something.

First, this block is shown:

.parent {
  color: blue;
  .child {
    font-size: 12px;
  }
}

Then the instructions say “The above SCSS would compile to the following, equivalent CSS:” and the following block is shown:

.parent {
  color: blue;
}

.parent .child {
    font-size: 12px;
}

But shouldn’t the second block actually look like this?:

.parent {
  color: blue;
}

.parent .child {
    **color: blue;**
    font-size: 12px;
}
3

No, because you are using .parent . child not only a .child. This what you wrote, you can use when you have .child only (without .parent) and then you have:

.parent {
color: blue;
}

.child {
color: blue;
font-size: 12px;
}

In .parent .child
the .child inherits from the .parent,
so instructions from CodeCademy are correct.

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4

There are some bugs in this course, i follow the instructions but it’s still wrong, when i ask the solution, the solution is identical than my response. Anyone know why ?

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5

That sounds like a bug… you may just want to report it and move on.

6

oh ok, i already reported it, thanks you steven for your help (and your personal webpage is nice:grin:)

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7

Awesome! That happens to me a fair bit too…

And yes, my personal website is muy bonita

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8

I am getting the same bug 9 months later! I have reported it but terrible learning experience if you have to get the solution for the thing to work!

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9

I’m having the same issue too!

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10

Shouldn’t I see some change in my css file after finishing the excercise? It’s the same as in the beginning.
I’ll leave the example

This is the sass code

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Pacifico);
//Add variables here:

h1 {
  font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
  text-align: center;
}

.banner {
  font-family: 'Pacifico', cursive;
  height: 400px;
  background-image: url("lemonade.jpg");
  .slogan {
  position: absolute;
  border: 4px solid black;
  top: 200px;
  left: 25%;
  width: 50%;
  height: 200px;
  text-align: center;
  span {
  font-size: 24px;
  line-height: 200px;}
  }
}

.container {
  text-align: center;
  font-family: 'Pacifico', cursive;
  .icon {
  display: inline-block;
  margin: 2%;
  border: 4px solid black;
  font-size: 32px;}
}

This is the css code

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Pacifico);
h1 {
  font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
  text-align: center;
}

.banner {
  font-family: 'Pacifico', cursive;
  height: 400px;
  background-image: url("lemonade.jpg");
}

.container {
  text-align: center;
  font-family: 'Pacifico', cursive;
}
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Hi i’m wondering if someone could let me know if the code below is correct use of scss nesting because when I run the code, an error message : “Did you nest and apply the properties to .slogan inside of banner?” comes up, and I thought I had…

.banner {

font-family: ‘Pacifico’, cursive;

height: 400px;

background-image: url(“lemonade.jpg”);

.slogan {

position: absolute;

border: 4px solid black;

top: 200px;

left: 25%;

width: 50%;

height: 200px;

text-align: center;

}

}

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The instructions from the beginning says this: Click “Run” to see your changes in the browser and inspect the output in main.css . Bur the output is the same from the beginning no changes, is there a bug here

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14

I’m facing this issue too. It’s annoying.

15

As reported here two and a half years ago, there is a bug with exercise 1 where the nested scss solution, unless i am mistaken, should be:
.banner {
font-family: ‘Pacifico’, cursive;
height: 400px;
background-image: url(“lemonade.jpg”);
.slogan {
position: absolute;
border: 4px solid black;
top: 200px;
left: 25%;
width: 50%;
height: 200px;
text-align: center;
}
}
but the error ‘Did you nest and apply the properties to .slogan?’ is returned preventing progress. The solution code will apply the code for the entire lesson including all the following exercises, which corrodes the learning experience too severely.

I have been struggling with this for too long, can we identify and fix this bug please?

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I am also having some kind of issue. I have copied the given ruleset for the .slogan, and the error message is telling me I am not using the 4px when I am??? Unless the pixel is effected by some rule set in any parent ruleset, which I do not think so becuase px is supposed to be fixed and independent. Am I wrong?

.banner {
  font-family: 'Pacifico', cursive;
  height: 400px;
  background-image: url("lemonade.jpg");
  .slogan {
    position: absolute;
    border: 4px solid black;
    top: 200px;
    left: 25%;
    width: 50%;
    height: 200px;
    text-align: center;
  }
}

The error

expected div.slogan to have its border style equal to 4px solid black but got 3.98438px solid #000000

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Getting the same error message… You can use the solution to go to the next, but the solution is different from what it should be.

18

Getting the same error message…
expected div.slogan to have its border style equal to 4px solid black but got 3.99306px solid #000000
Need help and fix developers bug codecademy

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bug
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This was originally mentioned YEARS ago this still isn’t fixed. Copy and paste I do as it says yet the solution is completely different not at all helpful codecademy please fix as we can’t progress until we copy and paste the solution.

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I had the same issue with the border-width. I switched to a different browser and was able to run the code and continue on with out any problems.

Google Chrome seems to have an issue with this exercise. Safari worked as expected.