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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Enhancing the Design With CSS Border Radius

Posted by Ambria Phillips
Ambria Phillips
8,483 Points

i need help

.wildlife { border-top: 20px 5px; border-bottom: 5px 20px; }

Add the shorthand property for setting rounded corners. Set the top-left border radius to 20px, the top-right radius to 5px, the bottom-right radius to 20px, and the bottom-left radius to 5px.

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.wildlife {
  border-top: 20px 5px;
  border-bottom: 5px 20px;
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Lake Tahoe</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
  </head>
  <body>
        <div class="primary-content">
      <div class="wildlife">
        <h2>Check out all the Wildlife</h2>
        <p>
          As spawning season approaches, the fish acquire a humpback and protuberant jaw. After spawning, they die and their carcasses provide a feast for gatherings of <a href="#mink">mink</a>, <a href="#bears">bears</a>, and <a href="#eagles">bald eagles</a>.
        </p>
      </div><!-- End .wildlife -->
        </div><!-- End .primary-content -->
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Erik McClintock
Erik McClintock
45,783 Points
Erik McClintock
Erik McClintock
45,783 Points

Ambria,

This challenge is asking you to use the shorthand property for setting the 4 border radius' of your .wildlife element. As you may recall, the property for this is called border-radius, and you can set all 4 border radius' individually in one declaration, starting with the top-left, then going clockwise around the element (next is top-right, then bottom-right, then finally bottom-left). Alternatively, you can set the top-left and bottom-right as a pair, and the top-right and bottom-left as a pair. Lastly, you can simply set one value to have it apply to all of your corners!

Thus, you could write your declaration in either of the following two ways:

/* setting all 4 corners individually */
.wildlife {
   border-radius: 20px 5px 20px 5px;
}

/* setting top-left/bottom-right as a pair, and top-right/bottom-left as a pair */
.wildlife {
    border-radius: 20px 5px;
}

Erik

Riku S.
Riku S.
11,322 Points
Riku S.
Riku S.
11,322 Points

You're setting border, not border-radius. Here's the right way to do it

.wildlife {
  border-radius: 20px 5px;
}

edit: Erik was just a bit faster :)