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CSS

Posted by Kyle Biancardi
Kyle Biancardi
1,674 Points

cant get social-thumbnails to change size

Hello, I can not seem to get my social thumbnails to change size. please help. Here is my code, much appreciated.

/******************************
 General Basic Design CSS Page
******************************/
a {
 text-decoration: none;
}

img{
max-width: 100%;
}

}
/**************************
Page Content imgs, captions
**************************/
#wrapper{
  max-width: 940px;
  margin:0 auto;
  text-align:center;
  padding:0 5%;
  font-family: 'ntr',sans-serif;
}
/******************
    Headlines
******************/
#logos{
  text-align: center;
  margin:0;
}
h1 {
  font-family: 'cinzel decorative', sans-serif;
  margin:5px 0;
  padding-top: 2%;
  font-size:1.5em;
}
h2{
  font-family:'cinzel decorative', sans-serif;
  margin: -2px 0 0;
  padding-bottom:-3%;
  font-size: 1.35em;
}
header{
  float: left;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 5px 0 0 0;
  width:100%;
  background:#990000;
}
h1,h2, h1:visited{
 color:#fff; 
} 
/******************
 Navigation 
******************/
nav{
  font-family:'poiret one',sans-serif;
  font-weight:800;
  font-size:1.75em;
}
nav li{
  display: inline-block;
  margin: 0 px 0 10px; 
  padding: 10px 10px;
}
nav{
   text-align: center;  
}
nav{
  background:#cccccc;
}
nav a, nav a:visited{
 color:#fff;
}
nav a.selected{
color:#cc0000;
} 
nav a:hover{
color:#cc0000;  
}
/******************
    Body
******************/
body{
  background:#fff;
}
footer{
  font-size: 0.75em;
  text-align:center;
  clear:both;
  color:#999;
  padding-top:-5px;
}

.thumbs{
  height:20px;
  Width:20px;
  margin:0 5px;
}

/**************************
Portfoilio Design
**************************/

#Gallery{
  margin:0;
  padding:0;

}

#gallery li{
  list-style:none;
  float:left;
  width:45%;
  margin:2.5%;
  background:#f5f5f5;
  text-align:center;
}

#gallery li a p{
margin: 0;
padding: 5%;
color: #bdc3c7;
font-size: 0.65em;
}

<html>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Kyle Biancardi | Designer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Holtwood+One+SC|Cinzel+Decorative|NTR' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Poiret+One' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logos">
        <h1>Kyle Biancardi</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <div id="nav">
        <nav>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="index.html"class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
            <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
            <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
          </ul>  
        </nav>
      </div>
  </header>
  <div id="wrapper">
    <section>
     <ul id="gallery">
      <li>
        <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
          <p>Learning texture and Colors</p>
        </a>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
          <p>Playing with Drips</p>
        </a>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
          <p>Trying 80's Glow!</p>
        </a>
      </li>
      <li>
       <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
        <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
         <p>playing with brush</p>
       </a>
      </li>
      <li>
       <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg"> 
        <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
         <p> playing with repitions</p>
      </a>
     </li>
     </ul>   
    </section>  
    <footer>
       <a href="http://www.facebook.com" alt="facebook logo" class="thumbs">
        <img src="img/facebook-wrap.png">
      </a>
      <a href="http://www.twitter.com" alt="twitter logo" class="thumbs">
        <img src="img/twitter-wrap.png">
      </a>
      <p>&copy; 2014 Kyle Biancardi</p>
    </footer>
  </div>
 </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Robert Richey
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 Points

Hi Kyle,

This was a tricky one! The problem stems from a CSS - Specificity issue.

Near the top of the style sheet, there is an img rule setting max-width: 100%;

Further down, there is a .thumbs rule, which targets a tags, wrapping the social media img tags. In this case, .thumbs is less specific than img, and so does not override the style rule max-width: 100%.

To fix this, we just need to add more specificity to the images we want to target.

/* change from */
.thumbs {
  /* ... */
}

/* to */
.thumbs img {
  /* ... */
}

Hope this helps!

Cheers