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

Posted by Luis Dominguez
Luis Dominguez
3,516 Points

Why use a background image for the iconography?

I don't understand why we're using a background image for this part; it seems harder than adding an image and giving it a set height/width. Why not just a regular image? Is it used just to explain the concept?

1 Answer

James Clodfelder
James Clodfelder
13,950 Points
James Clodfelder
James Clodfelder
13,950 Points

Here's some discussion on the topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/492809/when-to-use-img-vs-css-background-image. Seems to come down to whether or not your image would be considered part of the content of the page or not.