Learn CSS Variables by Building a City Skyline - Step 40

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Hi, I’m running round in circles with this and can’t move on. Can anyone help please? How do I add the gradient please?

  **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 {
width: 70%;
height: 10%;
background-color: var(--building-color1);
background: linear-gradient var(
--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);
}
  
  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

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

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someone posted a very similar coding error earlier.
Try reading here to see if the hints given will help you as well

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