Learn CSS Variables by Building a City Skyline - Step 105

Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.
I don’t understand what is wrong
Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">    
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>City Skyline</title>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />   
  </head>

  <body>
    <div class="background-buildings">
      <div></div>
      <div></div>
      <div class="bb1 building-wrap">
        <div class="bb1a bb1-window"></div>
        <div class="bb1b bb1-window"></div>
        <div class="bb1c bb1-window"></div>
        <div class="bb1d"></div>
      </div>
      <div class="bb2">
        <div class="bb2a"></div>
        <div class="bb2b"></div>
      </div>
      <div class="bb3"></div>
      <div></div>
      <div class="bb4 building-wrap">
        <div class="bb4a"></div>
        <div class="bb4b"></div>
        <div class="bb4c window-wrap">
          <div class="bb4-window"></div>
          <div class="bb4-window"></div>
          <div class="bb4-window"></div>
          <div class="bb4-window"></div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div></div>
      <div></div>
    </div>

    <div class="foreground-buildings">
      <div></div>
      <div></div>
      <div class="fb1 building-wrap">
        <div class="fb1a"></div>
        <div class="fb1b"></div>
        <div class="fb1c"></div>
      </div>
      <div class="fb2">
        <div class="fb2a"></div>
        <div class="fb2b window-wrap">
          <div class="fb2-window"></div>
          <div class="fb2-window"></div>
          <div class="fb2-window"></div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div></div>
      <div class="fb3 building-wrap">
        <div class="fb3a window-wrap">
          <div class="fb3-window"></div>
          <div class="fb3-window"></div>
          <div class="fb3-window"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="fb3b"></div>
        <div class="fb3a"></div>
        <div class="fb3b"></div>
      </div>
      <div class="fb4">
        <div class="fb4a"></div>
        <div class="fb4b">
          <div class="fb4-window"></div>
          <div class="fb4-window"></div>
          <div class="fb4-window"></div>
          <div class="fb4-window"></div>
          <div class="fb4-window"></div>
          <div class="fb4-window"></div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="fb5"></div>
      <div class="fb6"></div>
      <div></div>
      <div></div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>
/* file: styles.css */
.fb5 {
width: 10%;
height: 33%;
background-color: var(–building-color2);
position: relative;
right: 10%;
background: repeating-linear-gradient(
var(–building-color2),
var(–building-color2) 5%,
transparent 5%,
transparent 10%,
repeating-linear-gradient()
),
repeating-linear-gradient(
90 deg,
var(–building-color2) 0%,
var(–building-color2 12%,
var (–window-color2) 12%,
var (–window-color2) 44%
);

}.fb5 {
width: 10%;
height: 33%;
background-color: var(–building-color2);
position: relative;
right: 10%;
background: repeating-linear-gradient(
var(–building-color2),
var(–building-color2) 5%,
transparent 5%,
transparent 10%,
repeating-linear-gradient(
),
repeating-linear-gradient(
90 deg,
var(–building-color2) 0%,
var(–building-color2 12%,
var (–window-color2) 12%,
var (–window-color2) 44%
);

}

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/107.0.1418.42

Challenge: Learn CSS Variables by Building a City Skyline - Step 105

Link to the challenge:

You have added a third repeating-linear-gradient in the middle of the code which doesn’t belong there

I still don’t understand where is my mistake?

.fb5 {

width: 10%;

height: 33%;

background-color: var(–building-color2);

position: relative;

right: 10%;

background: repeating-linear-gradient(

var(–building-color2),

var(–building-color2) 5%,

transparent 5%,

transparent 10%,

repeating-linear-gradient()

),

repeating-linear-gradient(

90 deg,

var(–building-color2) 0%,

var(–building-color2 12%,

var (–window-color2) 12%,

var (–window-color2) 44%

);

}.fb5 {

width: 10%;

height: 33%;

background-color: var(–building-color2);

position: relative;

right: 10%;

background: repeating-linear-gradient(

var(–building-color2),

var(–building-color2) 5%,

transparent 5%,

transparent 10%,

repeating-linear-gradient(

90 deg(,

var(–building-color2) 0%,

var(–building-color2 12%,

var (–window-color2) 12%,

var (–window-color2) 44%

);

}

.fb5 {

width: 10%;

height: 33%;

background-color: var(–building-color2);

position: relative;

right: 10%;

background: repeating-linear-gradient(

var(–building-color2),

var(–building-color2) 5%,

transparent 5%,

transparent 10%,

repeating-linear-gradient()

),

repeating-linear-gradient(

90 deg,

var(–building-color2) 0%,

var(–building-color2 12%,

var (–window-color2) 12%,

var (–window-color2) 44%

);

}.fb5 {

width: 10%;

height: 33%;

background-color: var(–building-color2);

position: relative;

right: 10%;

background: repeating-linear-gradient(

var(–building-color2) 0%,

var(–building-color2) 5%,

transparent 5%,

transparent 10%

),

repeating-linear-gradient(

90 deg,

var(–building-color2) 0%,

var(–building-color2 12%,

var (–window-color2) 12%,

var (–window-color2) 44%

);

}

you have too much code.
I think it is easier if you just click the reset button to restore the original code and then just add exactly one more repeating-linear-gradient

  1. You have added .fb5 selector two times, with the same properties and values
  2. “repeating-linear-gradient” is shown three times instead of two
  3. Second building color doesn’t have the closing parenthesis

:root {
–building-color1: #aa80ff;
–building-color2: #66cc99;
–building-color3: #cc6699;
–building-color4: #538cc6;
–window-color1: #bb99ff;
–window-color2: #8cd9b3;
–window-color3: #d98cb3;
–window-color4: #8cb3d9;
}

  • {
    border: 1px solid black;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    }

body {
height: 100vh;
margin: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}

.background-buildings, .foreground-buildings {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
display: flex;
align-items: flex-end;
justify-content: space-evenly;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
}

.building-wrap {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
}

.window-wrap {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: space-evenly;
}

/* BACKGROUND BUILDINGS - “bb” stands for “background building” */
.bb1 {
width: 10%;
height: 70%;
}

.bb1a {
width: 70%;
}

.bb1b {
width: 80%;
}

.bb1c {
width: 90%;
}

.bb1d {
width: 100%;
height: 70%;
background: linear-gradient(
var(–building-color1) 50%,
var(–window-color1)
);
}

.bb1-window {
height: 10%;
background: linear-gradient(
var(–building-color1),
var(–window-color1)
);
}

.bb2 {
width: 10%;
height: 50%;
}

.bb2a {
border-bottom: 5vh solid var(–building-color2);
border-left: 5vw solid transparent;
border-right: 5vw solid transparent;
}

.bb2b {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: repeating-linear-gradient(
var(–building-color2),
var(–building-color2) 6%,
var(–window-color2) 6%,
var(–window-color2) 9%
);
}

.bb3 {
width: 10%;
height: 55%;
background: repeating-linear-gradient(
90deg,
var(–building-color3),
var(–building-color3),
var(–window-color3) 15%
);
}

.bb4 {
width: 11%;
height: 58%;
}

.bb4a {
width: 3%;
height: 10%;
background-color: var(–building-color4);
}

.bb4b {
width: 80%;
height: 5%;
background-color: var(–building-color4);
}

.bb4c {
width: 100%;
height: 85%;
background-color: var(–building-color4);
}

.bb4-window {
width: 18%;
height: 90%;
background-color: var(–window-color4);
}

/* FOREGROUND BUILDINGS - “fb” stands for “foreground building” */
.fb1 {
width: 10%;
height: 60%;
}

.fb1a {
border-bottom: 7vh solid var(–building-color4);
border-left: 2vw solid transparent;
border-right: 2vw solid transparent;
}

.fb1b {
width: 60%;
height: 10%;
background-color: var(–building-color4);
}

.fb1c {
width: 100%;
height: 80%;
background: repeating-linear-gradient(
90deg,
var(–building-color4),
var(–building-color4) 10%,
transparent 10%,
transparent 15%
),
repeating-linear-gradient(
var(–building-color4),
var(–building-color4) 10%,
var(–window-color4) 10%,
var(–window-color4) 90%
);
}

.fb2 {
width: 10%;
height: 40%;
}

.fb2a {
width: 100%;
border-bottom: 10vh solid var(–building-color3);
border-left: 1vw solid transparent;
border-right: 1vw solid transparent;
}

.fb2b {
width: 100%;
height: 75%;
background-color: var(–building-color3);
}

.fb2-window {
width: 22%;
height: 100%;
background-color: var(–window-color3);
}

.fb3 {
width: 10%;
height: 35%;
}

.fb3a {
width: 80%;
height: 15%;
background-color: var(–building-color1);
}

.fb3b {
width: 100%;
height: 35%;
background-color: var(–building-color1);
}

.fb3-window {
width: 25%;
height: 80%;
background-color: var(–window-color1);
}

.fb4 {
width: 8%;
height: 45%;
position: relative;
left: 10%;
}

.fb4a {
border-top: 5vh solid transparent;
border-left: 8vw solid var(–building-color1);
}

.fb4b {
width: 100%;
height: 89%;
background-color: var(–building-color1);
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
}

.fb4-window {
width: 30%;
height: 10%;
border-radius: 50%;
background-color: var(–window-color1);
margin: 10%;
}
.fb5 {

width: 10%;

height: 33%;

background-color: var(–building-color2);

position: relative;

right: 10%;

background: repeating-linear-gradient(

var(–building-color2),

var(–building-color2) 5%,

transparent 5%,

transparent 10%,

repeating-linear-gradient(

90 deg,

var(–building-color2) 0%,

var(–building-color2) 12%,

var (–window-color2) 12%,

var (–window-color2) 44%

);
.fb6 {
width: 9%;
height: 38%;
background-color: var(–building-color3);
}

.fb5 {

width: 10%;

height: 33%;

background-color: var(–building-color2);

position: relative;

right: 10%;

background: repeating-linear-gradient(

var(–building-color2),

var(–building-color2) 5%,

transparent 5%,

transparent 10%,

repeating-linear-gradient(

90 deg,

var(–building-color2) 0%,

var(–building-color2) 12%,

var (–window-color2) 12%,

var (–window-color2) 44%

);

I still don’t understand where is my mistake

After the “transparent 10%”, delete the comma and add the closing parenthesis with the comma:

transparent 10%
    ),

Then, in var(–building-color2) 0%, erase the zero and % characters (leave just the comma).

.fb5 {
width: 10%;
height: 33%;
background-color: var(–building-color2);
position: relative;
right: 10%;
background: repeating-linear-gradient(
var(–building-color2),
var(–building-color2) 5%,
transparent 5%,
transparent 10%
),
repeating-linear-gradient()
90 deg,
var(–building-color2) 0%,
var(–building-color2) 12%,
var (–window-color2) 12%,
var (–window-color2) 44%
);

}

.fb5 {
width: 10%;
height: 33%;
background-color: var(–building-color2);
position: relative;
right: 10%;
background: repeating-linear-gradient(
var(–building-color2),
var(–building-color2) 5%,
transparent 5%,
transparent 10%
),
repeating-linear-gradient(
90 deg,
var(–building-color2),
var(–building-color2),
var (–window-color2) 12%,
var (–window-color2) 44%
);

}

I didn’t say to delete the value for the second building color:
image
Make a correction:

var(-building-color2),
var(-building-color2) 12%,


It still don’t passed

Restart the step. If the solution doesn’t pass again follow the notes here:
“Note: Some browser extensions, such as ad-blockers and dark mode extensions can interfere with the tests. If you face issues, we recommend disabling extensions that modify the content or layout of pages, while taking the course.”

I don’t have any extensions

.fb5 {
width: 10%;
height: 33%;
background-color: var(–building-color2);
position: relative;
right: 10%;
background: repeating-linear-gradient(
var(–building-color2),
var(–building-color2) 5%,
transparent 5%,
transparent 10%
),
repeating-linear-gradient(
90 deg,
var(-building-color2),
var(-building-color2) 12%,
var (-window-color2) 12%,
var (-window-color2) 44%
);

Thanks I found the solution

1 Like

This topic was automatically closed 182 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.