How does CSS calculate the border radius in px when I use percentages?

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Hello Community :slight_smile:
I tried to recreate the 50% border with pixels but realized, that it must somehow calculate the width differently. I tried different settings and noticed the following:
since 50% of 100px width would equal to 50 px width, I tried that out, but it didn’t result into a circle. How are the values calculated in the percentage setting?
thank you :slight_smile:

Your code so far


<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
.red-text {
  color: red;
}

h2 {
  font-family: Lobster, monospace;
}

p {
  font-size: 16px;
  font-family: monospace;
}

.thick-green-border {
  border-color: green;
  border-width: 10px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-radius: 50%;
//not the same as border-radius : 50px
}

.smaller-image {
  width: 100px;
}
</style>

<h2 class="red-text">CatPhotoApp</h2>
<main>
<p class="red-text">Click here to view more <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>

<a href="#"><img class="smaller-image thick-green-border" src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back."></a>

<div>
  <p>Things cats love:</p>
  <ul>
    <li>cat nip</li>
    <li>laser pointers</li>
    <li>lasagna</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Top 3 things cats hate:</p>
  <ol>
    <li>flea treatment</li>
    <li>thunder</li>
    <li>other cats</li>
  </ol>
</div>

<form action="/submit-cat-photo">
  <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor" checked> Indoor</label>
  <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label><br>
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality" checked> Loving</label>
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Lazy</label>
  <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Energetic</label><br>
  <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>
  <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
</main>

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Challenge: Make Circular Images with a border-radius

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You need to include the border-width value for the border-radius.

.thick-green-border {
  border-color: green;
  border-width: 10px;
  border-style: solid;
  /* border-radius: 50%; */
  border-radius: 60px;
}
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Thank you very much! :slight_smile: