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PHP Enhancing a Simple PHP Application Cleaning URLs with Subfolders Moving the Other Pages

Posted by Mai Lon Ross
Mai Lon Ross
5,891 Points

Extra Credit CSS

I'm trying to position the About icon in the header. I have it awkwardly showing up, but can't move it to be like the shirt and phone. This is my line in the css that makes it appear:

.header .nav li.about a {background: url('../img/questionmark.png') no-repeat}

Thanks.

2 Answers

Mai Lon Ross
Mai Lon Ross
5,891 Points

Thanks Geoffrey for your reply. I'd looked at the element already there, but it seemed to me like they are taking slices of a single long image that is the right width to get the pictures positioned correctly. I got mine to work with background-position: center;

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points
geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

Nice, you found a way to fix it !

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points
geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

Hi Mai, If I were you, I would look at the styles applied to the others icons already set. In your case, without more info, I would tell that's an issue with the background-position property.

Furthermore, I 've taken a look on the project and to the styles applied to the others icons, you should have something like that to apply your new icon.

.header .nav li.contact a {
    background-position: 0px -105px;
}
.header .nav li a {
   color: white;
   text-decoration: none;
   display: block;
   line-height: 95px;
   padding: 10px 0 0;
   margin: 0 0 0 40px;
  width: 90px;
  text-align: right;
  background: url('../img/nav-sprite.png') no-repeat 0px 105px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  white-space: nowrap;
}

In other words, inspect the others elements using the dev tool bar, or directly through your css stylesheets as you have the project locally.

Hope it helps ;)