Improve Compatibility with Browser Fallbacks man

HTML-CSS
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Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


<style>
  :root {
    --red-color: red;
  }
  .red-box {
    background: var(--red-color);
    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/70.0.3538.110 Safari/537.36.

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

2

Repeating the exact same line twice does not change the CSS at all. The point of this exercise is that some browser versions will not understand background: var(--red-color);, so you want to provide a fallback that those browsers will understand.

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