Browser fallback - background colour

HTML-CSS
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Tell us what’s happening:
Hi there,

Feel a bit stupid but i’m struggling with creating a fallback background colour in this challenge. I have tried adding ‘background-color: red;’ immediately before the ‘background: var(–red-color);’ line but i cannot get it to work. Any help would be great!

Your code so far


<style>
  :root {
    --red-color: red;
  }
  .red-box {

    background: var(--red-color);
    height: 200px;
    width:200px;
  }
</style>
<div class="red-box"></div>

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/responsive-web-design/basic-css/improve-compatibility-with-browser-fallbacks/

2

Try just background red.

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Hi!. I had the same problem. The code should look like this:

:root {
–red-color: red;
}

.red-box {
background: red;
background: var(–red-color);
height: 200px;
width:200px;
}

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