"She is as beautiful as her mother."
Translation:Lei è bella quanto sua madre.
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"Tanto" should go BEFORE "bella". The order is always " tanto (adjective) come (pronoun/subject of sentence) (noun)"
Can any native speakers give me a hand? Is "Lei è bella quanto sua madre" a more common translation than "Lei è bella come sua madre"?
"Tanto ... quanto" implies quantity, so you're putting their beauty on a scale and comparing; "così ... come" implies quality, so you're saying that their beauty is similar, or that they're both beautiful. The nuance is hardly meaningful in contexts such as this. By the way, the first elements of the comparisons, "tanto" and "così", can be omitted, and usually are, I only put them in for clarity.
As far as I know, you don't use the article when speaking about family members
Only for singular ones, and this is the only exception, all other substantives, including plural family members, need the article.
No; "her" here is a possessive, not a personal pronoun, and "quanto a" isn't used for comparisons, but rather as "regarding", "about", in certain contexts.
I said "tanto bella come sua madre" and it was accepted. Does that sound natural to a native speaker, or does tanto only go with quanto?
You don't use "come" or the correlative "cosi... come" when comparing nouns. Only use them with adjectives. :)
You can read more here: http://tutorino.ca/grammatica/2007/2/19/comparing-things-in-italian-equality-as-much-as.html
The drop down is just a general indication of possible translations, you should view it as a very poor dictionary, not as a correction sheet for Duo exercises.