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

Sahar Nasiri
Sahar Nasiri
7,454 Points

background-size and min height

Hi :) We set both, min-height and background-size 20px? I comment the min-height and there's no change? Why should we use both of min-height and background-size?

1 Answer

Codin - Codesmite
Codin - Codesmite
8,600 Points

min-height defines the minimum height of the element that the class is applied to.

So basically min-height: 20px means it the element can be scaled 20px or higher but can never be scaled less then 20px. So unless you are scaling the window down below 20px you would probably not notice any changes by commenting out min-height.

background-size defines the size of the background image of the background set in the class and not the size of the element the class is applied to.