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dianeloux
8,203 PointsImage inside a box.
Please look at this pen: http://codepen.io/CrystalVisions/collab/zmLkK and see if you can tell what I am doing wrong and why line 21 seems to fix the problem?
3 Answers
Gabriel Roczanski
Courses Plus Student 2,136 PointsTake off the WIDTH value from #deer then will fix it, setting the width with an fixed value it will not be inherit the parent element and ignore him width.
Sorry bad english, not my native.
Martin Linde
15,153 PointsWhat is it that you want? I'll try and help.
Martin Linde
15,153 PointsGood answer Gabriel. Also you might want to make an image tag instead of the background-image in a div. Then you can create alt-text etc. If the image doesn't load for some reason.
dianeloux
8,203 PointsThat is what I ended up doing but I did want to know why my first way did not work and Gabriel gave me that answer. Thank you all for responding to my question!