what is fallback value??

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<style>
.penguin {
  --penguin-skin: black;
  --penguin-belly: gray;
  --penguin-beak: yellow;
  position: relative;
  margin: auto;
  display: block;
  margin-top: 5%;
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
}

.penguin-top {
  top: 10%;
  left: 25%;

  /* Change code below this line */
 background: black;
  /* Change code above this line */

  width: 50%;
  height: 45%;
  border-radius: 70% 70% 60% 60%;
}

.penguin-bottom {
  top: 40%;
  left: 23.5%;

  /* Change code below this line */
  background: black;
  /* Change code above this line */

  width: 53%;
  height: 45%;
  border-radius: 70% 70% 100% 100%;
}

.right-hand {
  top: 0%;
  left: -5%;
  background: var(--penguin-skin, black);
  width: 30%;
  height: 60%;
  border-radius: 30% 30% 120% 30%;
  transform: rotate(45deg);
  z-index: -1;
}

.left-hand {
  top: 0%;
  left: 75%;
  background: var(--penguin-skin, black);
  width: 30%;
  height: 60%;
  border-radius: 30% 30% 30% 120%;
  transform: rotate(-45deg);
  z-index: -1;
}

.right-cheek {
  top: 15%;
  left: 35%;
  background: var(--penguin-belly, white);
  width: 60%;
  height: 70%;
  border-radius: 70% 70% 60% 60%;
}

.left-cheek {
  top: 15%;
  left: 5%;
  background: var(--penguin-belly, white);
  width: 60%;
  height: 70%;
  border-radius: 70% 70% 60% 60%;
}

.belly {
  top: 60%;
  left: 2.5%;
  background: var(--penguin-belly, white);
  width: 95%;
  height: 100%;
  border-radius: 120% 120% 100% 100%;
}

.right-feet {
  top: 85%;
  left: 60%;
  background: var(--penguin-beak, orange);
  width: 15%;
  height: 30%;
  border-radius: 50% 50% 50% 50%;
  transform: rotate(-80deg);
  z-index: -2222;
}

.left-feet {
  top: 85%;
  left: 25%;
  background: var(--penguin-beak, orange);
  width: 15%;
  height: 30%;
  border-radius: 50% 50% 50% 50%;
  transform: rotate(80deg);
  z-index: -2222;
}

.right-eye {
  top: 45%;
  left: 60%;
  background: black;
  width: 15%;
  height: 17%;
  border-radius: 50%;
}

.left-eye {
  top: 45%;
  left: 25%;
  background: black;
  width: 15%;
  height: 17%;
  border-radius: 50%;
}

.sparkle {
  top: 25%;
  left: 15%;
  background: white;
  width: 35%;
  height: 35%;
  border-radius: 50%;
}

.blush-right {
  top: 65%;
  left: 15%;
  background: pink;
  width: 15%;
  height: 10%;
  border-radius: 50%;
}

.blush-left {
  top: 65%;
  left: 70%;
  background: pink;
  width: 15%;
  height: 10%;
  border-radius: 50%;
}

.beak-top {
  top: 60%;
  left: 40%;
  background: var(--penguin-beak, orange);
  width: 20%;
  height: 10%;
  border-radius: 50%;
}

.beak-bottom {
  top: 65%;
  left: 42%;
  background: var(--penguin-beak, orange);
  width: 16%;
  height: 10%;
  border-radius: 50%;
}

body {
  background: #c6faf1;
}

.penguin * {
  position: absolute;
}
</style>
<div class="penguin">
<div class="penguin-bottom">
  <div class="right-hand"></div>
  <div class="left-hand"></div>
  <div class="right-feet"></div>
  <div class="left-feet"></div>
</div>
<div class="penguin-top">
  <div class="right-cheek"></div>
  <div class="left-cheek"></div>
  <div class="belly"></div>
  <div class="right-eye">
    <div class="sparkle"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="left-eye">
    <div class="sparkle"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="blush-right"></div>
  <div class="blush-left"></div>
  <div class="beak-top"></div>
  <div class="beak-bottom"></div>
</div>
</div>

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.111 Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Attach a Fallback value to a CSS Variable

Link to the challenge:

Fallback value is basically the backup value if the one you want is not working.

:root{
    --color-a; pink;
}

.example{
    color: var(--color-a), black;
     /* If the variable --color-a (pink), is not working, 
          then the color of the font will "fallback" to the 
          color black. */
}

Hey @sumiakter-js!

Fallback values in css are used for better cross compatibility between browsers. In web development, you might want to use some of the newer features but you have to consider the fact that not all browsers are able to support those newer features.

The Can I use website is a great resource because if you are not sure if a feature in css (or other technologies) are supported by all browsers you can check by using this site.

If you want to go more in depth about css fallback properties, then I would read this article. https://modernweb.com/using-css-fallback-properties-for-better-cross-browser-compatibility/

For this problem I would look at FCC example that was provided in the lesson.

Hope that helps !

@ jwilkins.oboe, Thanks, I understand :slightly_smiling_face:

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