CSS Battle: #5 - Acid Rain

In this article, I will solve a Acid Rain CSS Challenge on CSS Battle. Let's look at the problem first.

Problem

We need to create the following container by using CSS Properties only:

Solution

So now look at the Solution and how we are going to achieve this.

HTML

<div class="one"></div>
<div class="two"></div>
<div class="three"></div>

There are three divs, each one represents a single raindrop.

CSS

Now let's style the Body first.

body {
  margin: 0;
  background: #0b2429;
}

After doing that, we can style the raindrops.

.one, .two, .three {
  position: absolute;
  width: 120;
  height: 120;
  background: #998235;
  border-radius: 50% 0 50% 50%;  
}
.one, .three {
  background: #f3ac3c; 
}

In the above code, we are initializing the height and width of the raindrops to 120px and applying the border-radius property to make the perfect raindrop shape.

Now I'll define positions for all the raindrops individually with z-index.

The z-index property specifies the stack order of an element. An element with greater stack order is always in front of an element with a lower stack order.

.one {
  left: 20%;
  top: 50%;
  z-index: 11;
}
.two {
  z-index: 10;
  left: 35%;
  top: 30%;
}
.three {
  transform: rotate(180deg);
  left: 50%;
  top: 10%;
  z-index: 9;
}

This is all you need to solve this CSS Problem.

In CSS Battle you can use 100 instead of 100px. You don't need to define px in CSS. However, if you are using rem or % then you need to pass them separately. That's why in the above CSS code there are no units mostly. For more info visit here

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Alternate Solution

There could be many Alternative Solutions I've used this one because of the fewer characters and simplicity.

HTML

<p t></p>
<p m></p>
<p b></p>

Here I am using the <p> tag and inside them t stands for a top, m stands for middle and b stands for the bottom raindrop.

CSS

* {
  margin: 0;
}
body {
  background: #0b2429;
}
p[t],
p[m],
p[b] {
  position: absolute;
  width: 120px;
  height: 120px;
  background: #998235;
  border-radius: 50% 0 50% 50%;
}
p[t],
p[b] {
  background: #f3ac3c;
}
p[t] {
  transform: rotate(180deg);
  left: 50%;
  top: 10%;
  z-index: 9;
}
p[b] {
  left: 20%;
  top: 50%;
  z-index: 11;
}
p[m] {
  z-index: 10;
  left: 35%;
  top: 30%;
}