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

Posted by Reginald Beneke
Reginald Beneke
Courses Plus Student 4,282 Points

CSS {Background-repeat:no-repeat;} Not working. The images still repeat.

What am I doing wrong and how can I fix this?

Here's the code.

.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.phone{ background-image:url("../img/photo.png") }

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

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

6 Answers

Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points

Hi Reginald,

There is a semi-colon within the round brackets of background-image:url(). The semi-colon needs to be the last character after the property value.

This typo is within all 3 instances of the .contact-info listings.

e.g. 

/* Currently */
.contact-info li.phone a {
background-image:url("../img/phone.png"; ) /* <-- semi-colon needs to be outside the brackets */
}

/* Change To */
.contact-info li.phone a {
background-image:url("../img/phone.png");
}

Easy to make typo, yet sometimes hard to find without a second set of eyes. :-)

Raphaël Seguin
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Raphaël Seguin
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 29,228 Points
Raphaël Seguin
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Raphaël Seguin
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 29,228 Points

Hi, ensure the property is effectively overriding the user agent stylesheet by selecting the element in chrome dev tool (command + alt + i) and reading the css properties in the right column. Hope it helps,

cheers

Reginald Beneke
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Reginald Beneke
Courses Plus Student 4,282 Points
Reginald Beneke
Reginald Beneke
Courses Plus Student 4,282 Points

I done that. Now I see the images aren't even showing in the webpage. I quadruple checked and the syntax is correct. So I'm not sure how I can fix this?

Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points

If you have a Workspace for this project, would you mind taking a snapshot and posting the link so we can take a better look, please.

Reginald Beneke
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Reginald Beneke
Courses Plus Student 4,282 Points
Reginald Beneke
Reginald Beneke
Courses Plus Student 4,282 Points

Sure, I hope I did it correctly! https://w.trhou.se/tcnr7h8y7u

Reginald Beneke
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Reginald Beneke
Courses Plus Student 4,282 Points
Reginald Beneke
Reginald Beneke
Courses Plus Student 4,282 Points

Oh my God! LOL I can't believe I didn't see that! I double checked everything at least twice! LOL the funniest thing is,I have a second pair of eyes, my glasses! Wow,thank you so much!!!! I was stuck on this too long!

Thank you so much Sean, once again!

Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points

My pleasure.

Good luck and happy coding! :-D

ARIBA SIDDIQUI
ARIBA SIDDIQUI
1,922 Points
ARIBA SIDDIQUI
ARIBA SIDDIQUI
1,922 Points

I got the same issue http://w.trhou.se/7ke0s11hhj Please check.