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Pauline Hilborn
3,879 PointsWhy did we add a background image to our CSS file here instead of simply adding an image source into our HTML?
In the video, we added a background image to get a twitter, phone, and mail icon to show up in our contact page. Why did we add it to our CSS as a background image instead of writing <img src="twitter.png"> into our HTML file?
4 Answers
Alexander Nortung
6,930 Pointswell i think it was easier this way
if you wanted to add it with html you would still have to use padding and margin i also think that it is to learn you that you can do it this way and you learned the background-repeat,background-image and the diffrence between margin and padding
but of course you could add it through HTML :)
Pauline Hilborn
3,879 PointsOK. Thank you.
Michael Pavey
379 PointsI had this question too, and would love to learn Treehouse's response. But one point I noticed is that doing it this way makes the whole area (including the logo, text, and space in between) into a link.
Alina Cruceru
1,129 PointsNick's argument, as I understood it, was that it's best to put images that are mostly used for stylistic purposes (in this case, making the links look nicer) in the CSS file, while keeping images that actually serve as content in the HTML file.