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

William Richert
William Richert
6,418 Points
Posted by William Richert
William Richert
6,418 Points

I don't understand the question.

I do not understand the following code challenge question: "Use the shorthand notation to shorten the border-radius value down to two units."

What units? pixels?

1 Answer

Elisabethann Bennett
Elisabethann Bennett
8,186 Points
Elisabethann Bennett
Elisabethann Bennett
8,186 Points

The shorthand notation is when you take all four of the border-radius values and condense them down to one. For instance, instead of having: border-top-left-radius: 10px; border-top-right-radius: 15px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px; border-bottom-left-radius: 15px;

you can instead shorten that to just one border-radius value, as such: border-radius: 10px 15px 10px 15px;

to condense it even further, you'd simply go: border-radius: 10px 15px;

This will make your top-left and bottom-right the same value and the top-right and bottom-left the same value.