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CSS How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Add and Style Icons

Samanthi Sembakuttige
Samanthi Sembakuttige
1,430 Points
Posted by Samanthi Sembakuttige
Samanthi Sembakuttige
1,430 Points

code challenge

Hi, question: set background size to 20px and left padding to 30px for anchor tag inside the contact info class.

my answer: .contact-info a{ background-size: 20px; padding: 0 0 0 30px;}

but it is wrong. dont understand why though.

css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

h1 {
  font-family: ‘Changa One’, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}

nav ul {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0 10px;
  padding: 0;
}

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

nav a {
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
      max-width: 150px;
  border-radius: 100%;
}
.contact-info{
  font-size: 0.9em;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style-type: none;
}
.contact-info a{
  display:block;

}
.contact-info a{
  min-height:20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;

}
.contact-info a{
  background-size: 20px;
  padding: 0 0 30px;
}

3 Answers

Dan Garrison
Dan Garrison
22,457 Points
Dan Garrison
Dan Garrison
22,457 Points

Hi Samanthi,

First of all, you don't need to select the anchor elements 3 different times. Technically it will work, but it's better to not repeat yourself. For this particular issue there are two problems with your code.

First, the background-size property needs two values. The question is asking you to put in a background size property to a 20px box. A box (or a square ). A square has the same height and width. So you set the first value to 20px to set the width and then you set the second value to 20px to set the height. For padding, you need one more zero value. When you use the padding property the first value designates the top, the next value designates right, the next value designates the bottom and the final value designates the left. The best

So your code should look like this: 

.contact-info a{
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
  padding: 0 0 0 30px;

}
Kallil Belmonte
Kallil Belmonte
35,561 Points
Kallil Belmonte
Kallil Belmonte
35,561 Points

The background size must be:

background-size: 20px 20px;

; )

Aleksey Fishouk
Aleksey Fishouk
8,788 Points

bacground-size can have only one value.

Kallil Belmonte
Kallil Belmonte
35,561 Points
Kallil Belmonte
Kallil Belmonte
35,561 Points

Hi Aleksey Fishouk, but I tested this code and it worked...

Aleksey Fishouk
Aleksey Fishouk
8,788 Points
Aleksey Fishouk
Aleksey Fishouk
8,788 Points

Try to set only left padding like this:

.contact-info a{ background-size: 20px; padding-left: 30px; }

And try not to make second rule for anchor tag.