Improve Compatibility with Browser Fallbacks_I've tried everything. Please help

HTML-CSS
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Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


<style>
  :root {
    --red-color: red;
  }
  .red-box {
    
    background-color: red;
    height: 200px;
    width:200px;
  }
   #.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 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36.

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

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I read up on this I’ve googled it, I used w3schools to see if there was any tips there. I even gone the previous exercise which is kinda similar to see what I’m missing. I am still at a wall with this one.

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It seems to be simpler than what you expect. I saw the error in the tests results say that you should include a red background for your .red-box selector right before the variant.
Reset the code in the challenge to the original version, and simply try adding

background: red;

before the line with the var(–red-color). No need to add another selector (like #.red-box). Let us know if it worked! :slightly_smiling_face:

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That work perfect. Thank you for better explaining and providing a solution.

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