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CSS

Posted by Ryan Decker
Ryan Decker
3,451 Points

Why is my background image disappearing when I add the "no-repeat center" properties?

I have a background image in my header. It displays until I add "no-repeat center" into the CSS. 

* {box-sizing:
    border-box;
  }
body {
    margin: 0;
      font: 1em/1.2 "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;
}


/*-----------Font Sizes-------------*/

h1 {
    font-size: 5rem;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
    display:inline-block;
    border-bottom: 2px solid black;
}

h2 {font-size: 2rem;}

/*-----------Header-------------*/

#header {
    text-align:center;
    padding-top: 100px;
    background-image: url('../img/sky.jpg') no-repeat center;
    background-size:cover;
    padding-bottom: 400px;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Pittsburgh</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400,300,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css">
</head>

<body>
  <div id="header">
    <h1>PITTSBURGH</h1>
    <h2>The Steel City</h2>
  </div>
</body>

2 Answers

Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points

Hello Ryan Decker,

You are so close to getting it right. Here's the problem. You CSS is targeting speficially the image itself. By removing '-image' from the declaration you code should work. look below.

#header {
    text-align:center;
    padding-top: 100px;
    background: url('../img/sky.jpg') no-repeat center;
    background-size:cover;
    padding-bottom: 400px;
}
Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points
Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points

background-image takes a single parameter with a value of an URL, none, or inherit.

If you want to use short-hand, i.e. combining property values, you want to use background.