Learn CSS Transforms by Building a Penguin - Step 65

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Hello, I have a question about my code that I don’t understand. Why do the “top,” “left,” and “right” properties work for the penguin face features? I’ve read that the default value for the position of elements is static, and these properties should have no effect on elements with a static position. So, why do they work?

To avoid any misunderstandings, I intentionally did not position the “.blush” element as the step required so that I can access the help button.

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 class="face left"></div>
        <div class="face right"></div>
        <div class="chin"></div>
        <div class="eye left">
          <div class="eye-lid"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="eye right">
          <div class="eye-lid"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="blush left"></div>
        <div class="blush right"></div>
      </div>
      <div class="penguin-body"></div>
    </div>

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

/* file: styles.css */
:root {
  --penguin-face: white;
}

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;
}

.face {
  width: 60%;
  height: 70%;
  background-color: var(--penguin-face);
  border-radius: 70% 70% 60% 60%;
  top: 15%;
}

.face.left {
  left: 5%;
}

.face.right {
  right: 5%;
}

.chin {
  width: 90%;
  height: 70%;
  background-color: var(--penguin-face);
  top: 25%;
  left: 5%;
  border-radius: 70% 70% 100% 100%;
}

.eye {
  width: 15%;
  height: 17%;
  background-color: black;
  top: 45%;
  border-radius: 50%;
}

.eye.left {
  left: 25%;
}

.eye.right {
  right: 25%;
}

.eye-lid {
  width: 150%;
  height: 100%;
  background-color: var(--penguin-face);
  top: 25%;
  left: -23%;
  border-radius: 50%;
}


/* User Editable Region */

.blush {
  width: 15%;
  height: 10%;
  background-color: pink;
  
}

/* User Editable Region */


.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%;
}

.penguin-body::before {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  width: 50%;
  height: 45%;
  background-color: gray;
  top: 10%;
  left: 25%;
  border-radius: 0% 0% 100% 100%;
  opacity: 70%;
}

.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;
}

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You added the following CSS in an earlier step:

.penguin * {
  position: absolute;
}

Does this answer your question?

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Is the ‘position: absolute’ property applied to the .penguin (the parent element) inherited by the face features?

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No, that CSS applies to any descendants of .penguin but not .penguin itself.

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I just rechecked my code and now I understand it. Thank you so much sir

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