Having issue setting margin top

HTML-CSS
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.
it says my margin -top property needs to be 65%
and its correct:.

  **Your code so far**

/* file: index.html */
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Picasso Painting</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.8.2/css/all.css">
</head>
<body>
  <div id="back-wall"></div>
      <div class="characters">
        <div id="offwhite-character">
          <div id="white-hat"></div>
          <div id="black-mask">
            <div class="eyes left"></div>
            <div class="eyes right"></div>
          </div>
          <div id="gray-instrument">
            <div class="black-dot"></div>
            <div class="black-dot"></div>
            <div class="black-dot"></div>
            <div class="black-dot"></div>
            <div class="black-dot"></div>
          </div>
          <div id="tan-table"></div>
        </div>
      </div>
</body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
body {
background-color: rgb(184, 132, 46);
}

#back-wall {
background-color: #8B4513;
width: 100%;
height: 60%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
z-index: -1;
}

#offwhite-character {
width: 300px;
height: 550px;
background-color: GhostWhite;
position: absolute;
top: 20%;
left: 17.5%;
}

#white-hat {
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 0 120px 140px 180px;
border-top-color: transparent;
border-right-color: transparent;
border-bottom-color: GhostWhite;
border-left-color: transparent;
position: absolute;
top: -140px;
left: 0;
}

#black-mask {
width: 100%;
height: 50px;
background-color: rgb(45, 31, 19);
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
z-index: 1;
}

#gray-instrument {
width: 15%;
height: 40%;
background-color: rgb(167, 162, 117);
position: absolute;
top: 50px;
left: 125px;
z-index: 1;
}

.black-dot {
width: 10px;
height: 10px;
background-color: rgb(45, 31, 19);
border-radius: 50%;
display:block;
margin-top:65%;
margin:auto;}


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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.53 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Step 30

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Just swap position of your margin and margin-top properties and you should be able to progress.

3

margin-top is auto becase, margin is to assign a value to all directions, and the lower property wins

4

To touch on this a little, this is because the code is read from top to bottom so it is initially reading your code as margin-top: 65% then it is overwriting it to be margin: auto instead. Hence why swapping the positions works as intended.

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