Need to create a color with an alpha channel? Just tell Sass how transparent it needs to be and it will do the heavy lifting. The best bit is that you don't even need to pass Sass a color value that already has an alpha channel. It will transform the color into an RGBA value for you. Let's use the transparentize
function on the sixth list item:
&:nth-child(6) a { background-color: transparentize($color1, .5); }
After passing the color, the transparentize
function expects a value between 0
(entirely transparent) and 1
(entirely opaque). Here we are using .5
.
Tip
fade-out
can be used instead of transparentize
if you would rather, as it has the same effect. The rgba
function also shares similarities, more of which shortly.
Now, remember, $color1
has a hex color as its value (#FF0000
), and yet on compile, this is what the function produces for us in CSS:
.chapter-summary:nth-child(6) a { background-color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5); }
A color value defined as...