cycling through a list of colors with sass

If its possible with pure CSS, its possible with Sass. This will work with any number of colors: http://codepen.io/cimmanon/pen/yoCDG $colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple; @for $i from 1 through length($colors) { li:nth-child(#{length($colors)}n+#{$i}) { background: nth($colors, $i) } } Output: li:nth-child(6n+1) { background: red; } li:nth-child(6n+2) { background: orange; } li:nth-child(6n+3) { background: yellow; … Read more