Learn CSS Variables by Building a City Skyline - Step 40 how to arrange the gradient type in background property?

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  **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">
      <div class="bb1a"></div>
      <div class="bb1b"></div>
      <div class="bb1c"></div>
      <div class="bb1d"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="bb2"></div>
    <div class="bb3"></div>
    <div></div>
    <div class="bb4"></div>
    <div></div>
    <div></div>
  </div>

  <div class="foreground-buildings">
    <div></div>
    <div></div>
    <div class="fb1"></div>
    <div class="fb2"></div>
    <div></div>
    <div class="fb3"></div>
    <div class="fb4"></div>
    <div class="fb5"></div>
    <div class="fb6"></div>
    <div></div>
    <div></div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
:root {
--building-color1: #aa80ff;
--building-color2: #66cc99;
--building-color3: #cc6699;
--building-color4: #538cc6;
--window-color1: black;
}

* {
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;
}

/* BACKGROUND BUILDINGS - "bb" stands for "background building" */
.bb1 {
width: 10%;
height: 70%;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
}
.bb1a, background {
width: 70%;
height: 10%;
background-color: var(--building-color1);
linear-gradient:--building-color1,--window-color1;

}
.bb1b {
width: 80%;
height: 10%;
background-color: var(--building-color1);
}

.bb1c {
width: 90%;
height: 10%;
background-color: var(--building-color1);
}

.bb1d {
width: 100%;
height: 70%;
background-color: var(--building-color1);
}

.bb2 {
width: 10%;
height: 50%;
background-color: var(--building-color2);
}

.bb3 {
width: 10%;
height: 55%;
background-color: var(--building-color3);
}

.bb4 {
width: 11%;
height: 58%;
background-color: var(--building-color4);
}

/* FOREGROUND BUILDINGS - "fb" stands for "foreground building" */
.fb1 {
width: 10%;
height: 60%;
background-color: var(--building-color4);
}

.fb2 {
width: 10%;
height: 40%;
background-color: var(--building-color3);
}

.fb3 {
width: 10%;
height: 35%;
background-color: var(--building-color1);
}

.fb4 {
width: 8%;
height: 45%;
background-color: var(--building-color1);
position: relative;
left: 10%;
}

.fb5 {
width: 10%;
height: 33%;
background-color: var(--building-color2);
position: relative;
right: 10%;
}

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

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0

Challenge: Learn CSS Variables by Building a City Skyline - Step 40

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Hey mate, firstly you need to give more details and make your post easy to understand.

Your gradient code is wrong.

It would be:

Mod Edit: Solution Removed

Keep coding… <3

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Your post has been edited because it contained solution code.
It is best to stay focused on answering the original poster’s question(s) and help guide them with hints and suggestions to solve their own issues with the challenge.
Thanks for your understanding

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The incorrect way to add color1 and color2: “–color1, --color2”.
The correct way to add color1 and color2: use (var) to wrap the “–color1, --color2”.
Also, use background property.

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use this code:
mod edit: solution redacted

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It is great that you solved the challenge, but instead of posting your full working solution, it is best to stay focused on answering the original poster’s question(s) and help guide them with hints and suggestions to solve their own issues with the challenge.

We are trying to cut back on the number of spoiler solutions found on the forum and instead focus on helping other campers with their questions and definitely not posting full working solutions.

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Hello. After 10 minutes of quiet and please do not erase my syntax:
background: linear-gradient (var(“put the first color here”), var(“put the second color here”)); Everything should go in the linear-gradient ();