# An error in styles.scss which should be ignored

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/an-error-in-styles-scss-which-should-be-ignored/8264>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 23, 2023, 10:57am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/an-error-in-styles-scss-which-should-be-ignored/8264 "2023-05-23T10:57:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![szfkamil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@szfkamil](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/szfkamil)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2023, 10:57am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/an-error-in-styles-scss-which-should-be-ignored/8264/1 "2023-05-23T10:57:26Z")

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Following the [guide](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/step-by-step/07-assets/#sass) I put the exact contents recommended for the `assets/css/styles.scss` file. However, unless wrapped in curly brackets it shows an error in VSCode: `{ expectedscss(css-lcurlyexpected)` When the curly brackets are present the site does not work as expected and after reload I get this error multiple times:

```auto

css 1:2 root stylesheet 
  Conversion error: Jekyll::Converters::Scss encountered an error while converting 'assets/css/styles.scss':
                    expected "}".
             Error: expected "}".
             Error: Run jekyll build --trace for more information.
                    
      Regenerating: 1 file(s) changed at 2023-05-23 12:33:43
                    _data/navigation.yml
Error: expected "}".
  ╷
1 │ {
  │ ^
  ╵

```

I found [discussion](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/1231), but it’s still an open issue. Is there a jekyll workaround to ignore this error?