Learn CSS Transforms by Building a Penguin - Step 38

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Describe your issue in detail here.
So it wants me to use a :before psuedoselector apparently but wouldn’t this be more appropriate:

     .penguin:nth-child(1) {content:"";}

I was originally going to try the

.penguin-body >:nth-of-type(1) {content:“”;}

but when I was doing the quick google search to see if you could do that it showed me the nth-child function psuedo selector thingy. I come back all excited and then get it wrong anyways… gonna go back and do it the way it wants, although i’m confused how .penguin-body::before {} targets child items of the parent element .penguin-body. Is my newfound method a better way or am I overthinking? Figured I would post this in case any other of us noobs are having some critical thoughts around this. Also if anyone can drop some knowledge on when we use : | :: for psuedo-selectors that could be enlightening. Sorry I keep adding more but also why do we not have a (0) as the first item in these functions such as nth-()? I thought with programming we gotta always start at 0? That’s one that’s been confusing me throughout my freeCodeCamp experience. Carpe Diem y’all! :smiling_face:

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css" />
    <title>Penguin</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
  </head>

  <body>
    <div class="left-mountain"></div>
    <div class="back-mountain"></div>
    <div class="sun"></div>
    <div class="penguin">
      <div class="penguin-head"></div>
      <div class="penguin-body"></div>
    </div>

    <div class="ground"></div>
  </body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
body {
  background: linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(118, 201, 255), rgb(247, 255, 222));
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100vh;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.left-mountain {
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  background: linear-gradient(rgb(203, 241, 228), rgb(80, 183, 255));
  position: absolute;
  transform: skew(0deg, 44deg);
  z-index: 2;
  margin-top: 100px;
}

.back-mountain {
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  background: linear-gradient(rgb(203, 241, 228), rgb(47, 170, 255));
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 1;
  transform: rotate(45deg);
  left: 110px;
  top: 225px;
}

.sun {
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  background-color: yellow;
  position: absolute;
  border-radius: 50%;
  top: -75px;
  right: -75px;
}

.penguin {
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  margin: auto;
  margin-top: 75px;
  z-index: 4;
  position: relative;
}

.penguin * {
  position: absolute;
}

.penguin-head {
  width: 50%;
  height: 45%;
  background: linear-gradient(
    45deg,
    gray,
    rgb(239, 240, 228)
  );
  border-radius: 70% 70% 65% 65%;
  top: 10%;
  left: 25%;
  z-index: 1;
}

.penguin-body {
  width: 53%;
  height: 45%;
  background: linear-gradient(
    45deg,
    rgb(134, 133, 133) 0%,
    rgb(234, 231, 231) 25%,
    white 67%
  );
  border-radius: 80% 80% 100% 100%;
  top: 40%;
  left: 23.5%;
}


/* User Editable Region */

.penguin-body:nth-child(1) {content:"0";}

/* User Editable Region */


.ground {
  width: 100vw;
  height: 400px;
  background: linear-gradient(90deg, rgb(88, 175, 236), rgb(182, 255, 255));
  z-index: 3;
  position: absolute;
  margin-top: -58px;
}

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/119.0.0.0

Challenge Information:

Learn CSS Transforms by Building a Penguin - Step 38

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According to 🙌 StackOverflow 🙌 Psuedo-Classes are used via : whereas Psuedo-Elements are used via :: 
    Apparently Psuedo-Classes handle states of your element while Psuedo-Elements are for targeting particular elements within your element. 
It is my understanding now that : will work for all Psuedo -Selectors within these two typings, if any of this is misleading please let me know.

Also here is a chat I had with ai to clarify the difference between child combinators and descendant combinators; and also 0-based indexing vs 1-based indexing:

Apparently I can only post one media so here is all of them… sorry to make you zoom.

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Imma go actually complete this assignment now lol, hopefully this has helped someone else too :pray:

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.penguin:nth-child(1) { content: ""; } : This selector targets the first .penguin element, but it adds an empty content string directly to that element. It doesn’t create a pseudo-element inside the .penguin-body .

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