Why is nth-child selector not working?

Question

I am using the nth-child selector to add background images for different social icons. However, all icons are appearing the same. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The nth-child selector counts siblings (i.e., elements having the same parent).

In your HTML structure, div.social-logo is always the first, last and only child of a. So nth-child has only one element to count.

However, there are multiple anchor elements, all of which are siblings (children of #social-links), so nth-child can target each one.

#social-links a:nth-child(1) div 
#social-links a:nth-child(2) div 
#social-links a:nth-child(3) div 
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