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HTML How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Add Iconography

Posted by John Luongo
John Luongo
5,735 Points

Icons won’t resize, why?

Here is my code.

html

        <h3>Contact Details</h3>
        <ul class="contact-info">
          <li class="mail"><a href="jwluongo@gmail.com"><img src="img/mail.png" alt="Email Logo" class="e-mail button"> jwluongo@gmail.com</a></li>
          <li class="twitter"><a href="http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?screen_name=jwluongo"><img src="img/twitter.png" alt="Twitter button" class="social-icon">@jwluongo</a></li>
        </ul>

css

.contact-info {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-size: 0.9em;
  color: #081443;
}

.contact-info a {
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
/*   padding: 0 0 0 30px; */
  margin: 0 0 10px;
}

contact-info li.mail a {
    background-image: url('../img/mail.png')
}
contact-info li.twitter a {
    background-image: url('../img/twitter.png')
}

3 Answers

John Luongo
John Luongo
5,735 Points

HEY, YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTOR AND SOURCE THE IMAGE AS A BACKGROUND FROM CSS INSTEAD OF CALLING IT IN YOUR HTML TOO.

Mike Schaming
Mike Schaming
13,925 Points
Mike Schaming
Mike Schaming
13,925 Points

Not sure if this would solve it, but it looks like you have a comment /**/ on your anchor styling that could be affecting it

John Luongo
John Luongo
5,735 Points

was just tooling with margins/padding from the end of the video. Does not affect the presentation. Images still won't resize to fit container.

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher
Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Well, you're missing a period before two of your (the last two) contact-info info styles. Here's an example:

contact-info li.mail a  /* should be .contact-info */
John Luongo
John Luongo
5,735 Points

just worked that out too :(. Half an hour to put 2 tiny pictures on the screen.

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher
Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Well the good news is that you're more likely to double check the periods before selecting a class next time! :)