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CSS CSS Foundations Backgrounds and Borders Box Shadows

Posted by Randhir Rana
Randhir Rana
4,754 Points

What am I missing in this line?

.box { box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 15px rgba(,#222) ; }

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Box Shadows</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="box"></div>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.box {
  box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 15px rgba(0,0,0,#222) ;
}
Randhir Rana
Randhir Rana
4,754 Points

Create a drop shadow for the .box div. Make it appear 10px to the right and 10px down, with a spread radius of 5px, a color of #222, and a blur radius of 15px.

Mireille Pasos
Mireille Pasos
35,469 Points

Hello. The last value in the RGBA color should be a number between 0 and 1. It could be something like 0.2, 0.8, etc... that value is supposed to be the alpha, so: 0.0 is fully transparent and 1.0 is fully opaque.

1 Answer

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points
Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

You have your blur radius and your spread radius mixed up. Switch those, and change the color to just #222. It asks for the hexadecimal color of #222, not an rgba color.

Randhir Rana
Randhir Rana
4,754 Points

Thanks for that answer.