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

Tarad Humphrey
Tarad Humphrey
1,116 Points
Posted by Tarad Humphrey
Tarad Humphrey
1,116 Points

How do I set the background size of an anchor element to 20 pixels square?

I have an element with a class of contact-info. The question says "set the background size to 20 pixels square. I typed "background-size: 20px" and I keep getting an error.

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

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

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


#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%;
}

1 Answer

Karsten Harrison
Karsten Harrison
5,185 Points

Hello Tarad! Your error is quite simple, and can easily be fixed. To square the background size you have to list 20px twice. Think of it like finding the area of a square. (Multiply the width and length) In the end, your code should look like this. Hope this helped :D

background-size: 20px 20px;