Learn Intermediate CSS by Building a Cat Painting - Step 59

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Tell us what’s happening:
Step 59: I do not know how to construct the descendant selector " select the two div elements inside the div with class cat-mouth. Give it a width of 30px, a height of 50px, and a border of 2px solid #000."

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>fCC Cat Painting</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css">
</head>
<body>
    <main>
      <div class="cat-head">
        <div class="cat-ears">
          <div class="cat-left-ear">
            <div class="cat-left-inner-ear"></div>
          </div>
          <div class="cat-right-ear">
            <div class="cat-right-inner-ear"></div>
          </div>
        </div>

        <div class="cat-eyes">
          <div class="cat-left-eye">
            <div class="cat-left-inner-eye"></div>
          </div>
          <div class="cat-right-eye">
            <div class="cat-right-inner-eye"></div>
          </div>
        </div>
        
        <div class="cat-nose"></div>
          
        <div class="cat-mouth">
          <div class="cat-mouth-line-left"></div>
          <div class="cat-mouth-line-right"></div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </main>
</body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
* {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
  background-color: #c9d2fc;
}

.cat-head {
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  margin: auto;
  background: linear-gradient(#5e5e5e 85%, #45454f 100%);
  width: 205px;
  height: 180px;
  border: 1px solid #000;
  border-radius: 46%;
}

.cat-left-ear {
  position: absolute;
  top: -26px;
  left: -31px;
  z-index: 1;
  border-top-left-radius: 90px;
  border-top-right-radius: 10px;
  transform: rotate(-45deg);
  border-left: 35px solid transparent;
  border-right: 35px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 70px solid #5e5e5e;
}

.cat-right-ear {
  position: absolute;
  top: -26px;
  left: 163px;
  z-index: 1;
  transform: rotate(45deg);
  border-top-left-radius: 90px;
  border-top-right-radius: 10px;
  border-left: 35px solid transparent;
  border-right: 35px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 70px solid #5e5e5e;
}

.cat-left-inner-ear {
  position: absolute;
  top: 22px;
  left: -20px;
  border-top-left-radius: 90px;
  border-top-right-radius: 10px;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 40%;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 40%;
  border-left: 20px solid transparent;
  border-right: 20px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 40px solid #3b3b4f;
}

.cat-right-inner-ear {
  position: absolute;
  top: 22px;
  left: -20px;
  border-top-left-radius: 90px;
  border-top-right-radius: 10px;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 40%;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 40%;
  border-left: 20px solid transparent;
  border-right: 20px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 40px solid #3b3b4f;
}

.cat-left-eye {
  position: absolute;
  top: 54px;
  left: 39px;
  border-radius: 60%;
  transform: rotate(25deg);
  width: 30px;
  height: 40px;
  background-color: #000;
}

.cat-right-eye {
  position: absolute;
  top: 54px;
  left: 134px;
  border-radius: 60%;
  transform: rotate(-25deg);
  width: 30px;
  height: 40px;
  background-color: #000;
}

.cat-left-inner-eye {
  position: absolute;
  top: 8px;
  left: 2px;
  width: 10px;
  height: 20px;
  transform: rotate(10deg);
  background-color: #fff;
  border-radius: 60%;
}

.cat-right-inner-eye {
  position: absolute;
  top: 8px;
  left: 18px;
  transform: rotate(-5deg);
  width: 10px;
  height: 20px;
  background-color: #fff;
  border-radius: 60%;
}

.cat-nose {
  position: absolute;
  top: 108px;
  left: 85px;
  border-top-left-radius: 50%;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 50%;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 50%;
  transform: rotate(180deg);
  border-left: 15px solid transparent;
  border-right: 15px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 20px solid #442c2c;
}


/* User Editable Region */

.cat-mouth {
  width: 30px;
  height: 50px;
  border: 2px solid #000;
}

/* User Editable Region */

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Challenge: Learn Intermediate CSS by Building a Cat Painting - Step 59

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Hello!
Try leaving a space after the .cat-mouth and adding div before the opening {

See if that works. It should. But, if it doesn’t, I suggest trying to submit from a different browser, because except for that little change, you have got this.

Happy coding! :slight_smile:

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This was the solution to the same question for me. But I still don’t understand why I’m adding a div before the opening {. I can’t recall doing this before?

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Thank you.

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It’s the first time it has been used in the curriculum! So the div with the ".cat-mouth " class contains the other two divs. So the descendent selector uses the “.cat-mouth” div to style both of the contained divs as they are descendants of that div.

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