Learn CSS Variables by Building a City Skyline - Step 60

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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

Not sure what my error is here, it says I need to apply it to my background, and I am or at least I think I am.

  **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 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"></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;
--window-color2: #8cd9b3;
--window-color3: #d98cb3;
}

* {
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%;
}

.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 {background: repeating-linear-gradient(
90deg,
  var(--building-color3),
  var(--building-color3),
  var(--window-color3)15%,
);
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 60

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Try adding some spacing to see if that helps.

  • a space between the percentage and the bracket in the last line
  • a space between the curly brace { and the word after it

Let me know which, if any of these, helped

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I added some spacing to both and it still gives the same error of me not adding background to the class selector

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Perhaps there is something I am not seeing as everything else looks good.
Can you try copying the relevant code somewhere then restarting the step, and copying the new code back in? Sometimes that helps.
Alternatively, try using a different browser. Sometimes an extension on a browser can affect the tests.

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currently kicking and screaming, all i had to do was remove the background color element omggg ive been looking at this for like 30 minutes. thank you so much! <3

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I wonder if the reason for this is because you didn’t place the new code in the last line? The way Cascading Stylesheets work is that the bottom-most style gets applied last (so since your code was before the background-color, the test didn’t see the result…)
If you want to check and see if this also would have helped, feel free…

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