# Accessing theme list settings via SCSS @each rule
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-theme-list-settings-via-scss-each-rule/272142
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 19, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-theme-list-settings-via-scss-each-rule/272142 "2023-07-19T15:27:42Z")
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-theme-list-settings-via-scss-each-rule/272142/1 "2023-07-19T15:27:42Z")
i’m trying to access a list setting in yml file with an @each SCSS operator but cannot get it to work for more than one list entry. the code works as expected with default “” or one item in list, but not for more.
settings.yml:
```yml
list_setting:
type: list
default: ""
description: "a list setting"
```
scss:
```scss
@each $setting in $list_setting {
some css formating code with each $setting here;
}
```
this seems like it should be somewhat straightforward, but as soon as i add more than one entry to the list, it stops working but no errors. 🤔
any suggestions from code gurus?
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-theme-list-settings-via-scss-each-rule/272142/2 "2023-07-19T15:44:04Z")
Random guesses:
I didn’t test it, but I think list settings are delimited by pipes `|`.
It might be possible that `$setting` in your CSS equals `something|something_else|etc`. You could output the value in some CSS attribute (or JS, the value should be the same) to be sure. 🤔
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-theme-list-settings-via-scss-each-rule/272142/3 "2023-07-19T15:46:15Z")
yea i was just thinking about this and wondering if i have to split those list values out with some script? i suspect it is treating multiple list items as one string.🤔
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-theme-list-settings-via-scss-each-rule/272142/4 "2023-07-31T01:43:37Z")
btw solved this last week. used a string separator scss function
```scss
@function str-to-list($string, $separator, $startAt: 1) {
$item: str-slice($string, $startAt);
$list: ();
$index: str-index($item, $separator);
@if $index ==null {
$list: ($item);
}
@else {
$list: (str-slice($item, 1, $index - 1));
$list: join($list, str-to-list($item, $separator, $startAt: $index + 1));
}
@return $list;
}
$list: str-to-list("#{$list_setting}", "|");
@each $setting in $list {
some css formating code with each $setting here;
}
```
using it in these components here:
[https://github.com/Lillinator/topic-header-changer](https://github.com/Lillinator/topic-header-changer)
[https://github.com/Lillinator/restrict-user-status](https://github.com/Lillinator/restrict-user-status)
thanks to @Don for the tip 🙂
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-theme-list-settings-via-scss-each-rule/272142/5 "2023-07-31T11:38:49Z")
> [@Lilly](#):
>
> ```scss
> $list: str-to-list("#{$list_setting}", "|");
>
> ```
🤯
I tried but couldn’t figure out this existed, that’s great. 👏
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-theme-list-settings-via-scss-each-rule/272142/6 "2023-08-30T11:39:48Z")
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