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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Polish the Navigation and Footer

Christopher Mlalazi
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Christopher Mlalazi
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 17,305 Points

Footer social media icons not resizing

I think I copied this correctly, but my social media icons in the footer are not resizing, maybe I have an error in code I cannot spot, can somebody please assist.

First here is my index.html code, and then the CSS below:

<footer> <a href="https://twitter.com/chrismlalazi"><img src ="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cmlalazi"><img src ="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a>

This is the CSS

.social-icon { width: 20px; height: 20px; margin: 0 5px; }

there is no issue in your code.

can you provide us the html & css code so that we could find out which css property is overriding this one.

7 Answers

Hi,

There is no error in your code. I executed in codepen and it showed the results as expected with the twitter and facebook images small.

May be you can save and refresh your browser.

Thanks, Aishu

you can copy and paste here incase if your unable to figure it out .

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This is the html:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Christopher Mlalazi | Writer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> </head> <body>
<header> <a href="index.html" id ="logo"> <h1>Christopher Mlalazi</h1> <h2>Writer</h2> </a> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="books.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="theatre.html">Theatre</a></li>
</ul> </nav>
</header> <div id="wrapper"> <section> <ul id="gallery"> <li> <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture</p> </a> </li> <li> <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt=""> <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop</p> </a> </li> <li> <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt=""> <p>Trying to create an 80's style of gloss</p> </a> </li> <li> <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt=""> <p>Drips created using Photoshop brushes</p> </a> </li> <li> <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt=""> <p>Creating shapes using repetition</p> </a> </li> </ul> </section> <footer> <a href="https://twitter.com/chrismlalazi"><img src ="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cmlalazi"><img src ="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a> <p>© Christopher Mlalazi.</p> </footer>
</div> </body> </html>

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And this is the CSS:

/********************* GENERAL *********************/

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 5%; }

a { text-decoration: none; }

img { max-width: 100%; }

/********************* HEADING *********************/

header { float: left; margin: 0 0 30px 0; padding: 5px 0 0 0; width: 100%; }

logo {

text-align: center; margin: 0; }

h1 { font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif; margin: 15px 0; font-size: 1.75em; font-weight: 0.8em; }

h2 { font-size: 0.75em; margin: -5px 0 0; font-weight:normal; }

/***************************** NAVIGATION *******************************/

nav { text-align: center; padding: 100px 0; margin: 20px 00; }

nav ul { list-style: none; margin: 0 10px; padding: 0; }

nav a { font-weight: 800; padding: 15px 10px; }

nav li { display: inline-block; } /***************************** FOOTER *******************************/

footer { font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center; clear: both; padding-top: 50px; color: #ccc; }

.social-icon { width: 20px; height: 20px; margin: 0 5px; }

/***************************** PAGE: PORTFOLIO *******************************/

gallery {

margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; }

gallery li {

float: left; width: 45%; margin: 2.5%; background-color: #f5f5f5; color: #bdc3c7; }

gallery li a p {

margin: 0;

padding: 5%; font-size: 0.75em; color: #bdc3c7;

}

/********************* COLORS *********************/

/* site body*/ body { background-color: #fff; color: #999; }

/* green header / header { background: #6ab47b; border-color:#599a68; } / logo text */ h1, h2 { color: #fff; }

/* Links */ a { color: #6ab47b;
}

/* nav background on mobile */ nav { background: #599a68; }

/* nav link */ nav a, nav a:visited { color: #fff; }

/* selected nav link */ nav a.selected, nav a:hover { color: #32673f; }

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/********************* GENERAL *********************/

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 5%; }

a { text-decoration: none; }

img { max-width: 100%; }

/********************* HEADING *********************/

header { float: left; margin: 0 0 30px 0; padding: 5px 0 0 0; width: 100%; }

logo {

text-align: center; margin: 0; }

h1 { font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif; margin: 15px 0; font-size: 1.75em; font-weight: 0.8em; }

h2 { font-size: 0.75em; margin: -5px 0 0; font-weight:normal; }

/***************************** NAVIGATION *******************************/

nav { text-align: center; padding: 100px 0; margin: 20px 00; }

nav ul { list-style: none; margin: 0 10px; padding: 0; }

nav a { font-weight: 800; padding: 15px 10px; }

nav li { display: inline-block; } /***************************** FOOTER *******************************/

footer { font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center; clear: both; padding-top: 50px; color: #ccc; }

.social-icon { width: 20px; height: 20px; margin: 0 5px; }

/***************************** PAGE: PORTFOLIO *******************************/

gallery {

margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; }

gallery li {

float: left; width: 45%; margin: 2.5%; background-color: #f5f5f5; color: #bdc3c7; }

gallery li a p {

margin: 0;

padding: 5%; font-size: 0.75em; color: #bdc3c7;

}

/********************* COLORS *********************/

/* site body*/ body { background-color: #fff; color: #999; }

/* green header / header { background: #6ab47b; border-color:#599a68; } / logo text */ h1, h2 { color: #fff; }

/* Links */ a { color: #6ab47b;
}

/* nav background on mobile */ nav { background: #599a68; }

/* nav link */ nav a, nav a:visited { color: #fff; }

/* selected nav link */ nav a.selected, nav a:hover { color: #32673f; }

May be. Am not sure about it. I haven't tried in safari. can you try in google chrome.

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This is funny. While it was refusing to resize a while ago after countless refreshing of browser, now as you have said I have refreshed again and it has worked! Am confused why the browser let me spend almost an hour without responding. Thanks again Aishu, I know I will be back with more questions as I am still starting in coding and I am keen to master this and other scripting languages.