May 29, 2012

CSS Background Image Replacement Tutorial

In this CSS Video Tutorial we learn how to replace plain text elements with CSS background images.  This is a great strategy to improve your SEO (search engine optimization) performance, and also increase accessibility.

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Brad Schiff

Brad Schiff is a front-end developer, designer, and educator who has been building user interfaces for over a decade. He’s done work for Fortune 500 companies, national political campaigns, and international technology leaders. His proudest achievement is helping people learn front-end web development.

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2 thoughts on “CSS Background Image Replacement Tutorial

  1. Hello Brad,
    I just recently discovered your videos in YouTube and I’m impressed with your clarity in explaining this subject that over the years it was completely Greek to me; even managing to do some websites (I don’t know how) thinking that with the WYSWYG editors was enough.
    Now, trying to follow your tutorials I wanted to apply a class to four different images and two of them obey the orders the other two don’t. Can you explain to me what it’s wrong with the code?
    .ic{
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0 auto;
    }
    Two of the images centred alright the other two didn’t obey and aligned to the left of the page.
    I appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.

  2. Hi Marta,

    I just created a new video about center aligning images:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiA7BRTL1A0&list=UUHRp19HU7Y2LwfI0Ai6WAGQ&index=1

    The “text-align: center;” method requires the image’s parent element to have that style instead of the image itself. If you make the image a block level element instead of an “inline” element (by using “display: block;”) then you can use “margin: 0 auto;” on the image itself to center it.

    Thanks!
    Brad

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