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

Posted by Christian Lorza
Christian Lorza
Courses Plus Student 1,361 Points

how do i set a background image to 20px square?

I was tasked to set the background image of an anchor element to '20px square' could someone explain what that means? I presume the 20px means the dimensions of the background ( 20x20 ) but I don't understand the 'square' bit.

5 Answers

Robert Manolis
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Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Robert Manolis
Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest Teacher

I think you got it. 20px square should mean a shape with 20 px on each side, four equal sides makes a square.

what you want to do is set the dimensions of the anchor element, width and height, and then apply a background image with your css since you can't really style background images directly.

hope that helps

Christian Lorza
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Christian Lorza
Courses Plus Student 1,361 Points
Christian Lorza
Christian Lorza
Courses Plus Student 1,361 Points

Thanks man, managed to figure it out now. Silly mistake on my part. Many thanks.

Robert Manolis
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Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Robert Manolis
Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Good. Love it when it all works out. I don't want to sound greedy, but how about a bump or best answer or something, if it's not too much trouble, and if you are okay with it.

happy coding :)

Christian Lorza
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Christian Lorza
Courses Plus Student 1,361 Points
Christian Lorza
Christian Lorza
Courses Plus Student 1,361 Points

xD sure thing.