I am trying to use images in css file in my laravel project that makes use of twitter bootstrap and Jason Lewis' Basset.
Now when I use a image in my css like
.div {
background: url('asset/img/photo.jpg');
}
I get the path to
http://localhost/asset/css/less/assets/img/photo.jpg
However the real path should be
http://localhost/~Username/laravelProject/public/asset/img/photo.jpg
The only way to achieve this is to use this url in my css
/../~Username/laravelProject/public/asset/img/photo.jpg
You guys would understand this is a no go if I have to move the site from local to server and have to change all the urls every time.. So Why is this not working properly? I am using this laravel starter site made by andrew13
startersite github
Last but not least.. this is the structure
The issue is that the path is bellow the css doc, relative file paths work by adding there files location to the beginning of the url, this means that it is looking for (Mypath)/asset/img/photo.jpg
(or: public/asset/css/asset/img/photo.jpg from what I can see)
Without a PHP server to return dynamic url's, sadly your only 2 options are:
Move the CSS to the root, or at least lower then the IMG
Use a absolute url
With php you have a few options, my favorite being a "Node" structure
How this works is placing a php file in the root folder that sets a constant of its location:
<?php
define('ROOTPATH', dirname(__FILE__));
?>
When ever you want to use this just include the file, and use ROOTPATH:
<?php
include 'TheFileName.php';
echo ROOTPATH,'/public/asset/img/photo.jpg';
?>
On most php servers this is already set to $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], but on a local host with will need to use a node.
Please note this is sudo code, some things may have to be changed
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I have a problem where I want to redirect to a css file which stylesheet link is inside essentials.php in the main directory. however when including the essentials.php the browser redirects to the wrong url see image. how can i fix this?
I fixed my issue with a php variable $site which is defined as the url, in this way i can change the variable from localhost to the real site and is it easy to switch. In this way I do not have directory problems since the whole url is given.
$siteurl=localhost/project
href="<?php echo "$siteurl";?>/videos/watch?v=">
Good day.
My structure is like this:
/
index.html
style/
main.css
images/
test/
test.html
/style/main.css says something like this:
body {
background-image: url('/images/SomeImage.png');
background-color: #000;
}
/index.html has a link to this CSS file, but, as the title says, no image will load. But it's connected though, cause the background is actually black, so the rest of the style (but images) does work.
Also, if I write the same style internally into /index.html the background will load.
Also, I created /test/test.html which says nothing but
<img src="/images/SomeImage.png" />
and the image is displayed on that page.
So, obviously, for some reason my /style/main.css can't reach files, that any other file from any other location reaches. Why does this happen? There's clearly nothing wrong with the syntax. I'm lost.
add ../ to the beginning of /images so it read ../images/imagename.jpg
Here's what your code should be:
body {
background-image: url('../images/SomeImage.png');
background-color: #000;
}
Because your image is in another folder (thats a level up than your style sheet), you need to start with "../" for a level up folder in hierarchy relative to the style sheet. So you need a relative URL:
background-image: url('../images/SomeImage.png');
Try to copy webpage, css and example image in one folder temporarily. Then use only image name for url a see what happens. If it works, it will be the image path, if not something else.. possibly position.. is this complete css you are posting?
Initially, it looks like your code is fine.
So how do you know the image isn't loading? Look in your browser's developer tools to see if the image is loading, or returning an error, or not even being referenced. My guess here would be that it is loading, but not display because of something in your CSS.
if you are in /styles/style.css you need to add:
../ 2 levels back to get to the root folder.
So as Rokin answered :
background-image: url('../images/SomeImage.png');
is the way to do it.
To link your CSS within your index file use the following:
<link href="./style/style.css" rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
./ 1 level back within the index.html to reach the root folder.
In addition your problem might also be a file permission problem, I always face this issue when i download images from my email and use them directly.
If you are working locally on a mac:
- Right click on the selected image
- click on **get info**
- In sharing and permissions, make sure that the **everyone** has the **Read only** permission instead of **No access**
If you are working directly on a live server:
- login using FTP (with any ftp client such as File Zilla)
- Go to the selected image
- Right click and select file permissions
- set permissions to : **664**
Ok, so basically, I replaced the not-working /style/main.css with the copy of it (test.css - described in post comments) and now it works. Why is still the question, but the problem is kinda solved I guess.
Same with me, I guess images that used in css must be in the same folder as css file. I tried every possible solution while checking with the browser tool and the only thing that works is when I put the image and stylesheet in the same folder.
I am having the same problem. Working with Visual Studio Community.
I went inspect elements in browser and found that the file directory "automatically" (i did not set it this way) says that my image folder is nested inside my css folder. dont know why yet... so I then went and moved my image folder into my css folder seeing that this is what my browser showed me in the dev tools...
so maybe for some reason when working with css your images inside your image folder should be located in your css folder and not the complete Webpage Folder..it worked.
I'm improving a word-press web site. I need to include a file to a index WordPress theme, but that happen is really frustrating for me.
If I do in the index.php wordpress theme file, everything is ok:
include('myfile.php'); // myfile.php is of course in the same folder as index.php.
And the include is done properly.
But, if I try to move "myfile.php" to , for example, the father folder, the next thing should work, but no...:
include('../myfile.php');
This is for me really frustrating because doesn't have sense...
Next thing I have tried, setting all the absolute path:
include('http://example.com/myfile.php') but again, it doesn't work.
Wordpress has shortcuts for this. Try using
<?php get_template_part('myfile'); ?>
In fact, this is the right way to do an include
the absolute path must be the path of your file system.
you can try use realpath() php function, which solves the absolute path of the file through the parameter relative path.
see documentation http://php.net/manual/en/function.realpath.php
I'm developing a site locally using xampp. The path the images are using is
/devsite/sites/default/files/icon_facebook.jpg
When I check out of the site on my server the path remains the same for the images, even though the image is now at
/~devsite/sites/default/files/icon_facebook.jpg
Are the image URLs just hard-coded by the wysiwyg including the wrong base path? Is there something I can do to make them work?
When you're using wysiwyg, the image path is saved along with the rest of the HTML, and the filters don't convert it. So under some conditions - especially if you're moving from a subdirectory to the HTML root - you'll have images that are misplaced.
The pathologic module might be of some help here. Otherwise you could use Views Bulk Operations to do a string_replace() operation your HTML fields.
Try setting the $base_url in sites/default/settings.php. I'm not sure how the WYSIWYG is setting images, but it's pretty standard that it should be using a path relative to the base url.
I'm working on an HTML5 mobile app and I initially have the background of a DIV item set through the CSS as follows:
background-image: url('images/ClanSpider.png');
In my app, I have a method that changes the background DIV based on a selection made in a dropdown list from a previous method using jQuery:
function ResetMyHonor()
{
ClanImage = 'images/Clan' + MyClanName + '.png';
$("#MyClanName").html(MyClanName);
$("#MyHonorBox").css('backgroundImage', 'url(' + ClanImage + ')');
}
All of this works fine when I'm on the root of my page. However, I have some links within the app using hash tags to navigate the page (such as #MyHonor). When I've navigated to one of these tags and call my reset function above, the image breaks. When I pull up the Chrome Inspector to look at the DIV tag, it says that the image it is trying to load is "images/MyHonor/ClanSpider.png" which doesn't exist.
I know the CSS url will generate links in reference to its location within the application, but it doesn't matter where I move the CSS files in the application.
Is there a way for me to rewrite what comes out of the url processing or an alternate way of specifying the background image of the DIV without doing any kind of server side processing? Ideally this app will run through the manifest cache feature of HTML5, so I won't have access to any server based languages.
Try putting a leading slash on those paths to represent the root.
ie use:
url('/images/ClanSpider.png')
instead of
url('images/ClanSpider.png')
From reading through your comments on the other answers I think you're creating a problem for yourself that doesn't really exist. If url('/images/ClanSpider.png') is going to work when you upload to the web server then the trick is to make it work the same way when working locally. By far the easiest way to do this, especially if your focus is an offline app which has little in the way of server side requirements (which I'm assuming is true, as you mentioned file:/// URIs), is to run a local web server.
Python ships with a module SimpleHTTPServer, if you have Python installed then starting it is as simple as going to your L5RHonor project directory in a command prompt and issuing the following command:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Then instead of accessing your files with URIs like this:
file:///H:/Projects/L5RHonor/images/ClanSpider.png
You will access them like this:
http://localhost:8000/images/ClanSpider.png
All your root relative file paths will now work correctly, as an added bonus the offline caching will work correctly in Chrome and you'll be able to see from the log in the command prompt window that it is requesting and caching the correct files according to your manifest.
The simplest solution is obviously adding a slash to the URL to make it absolute. That will work fine, but it makes it impossible to move the application into a sub-directory, or to move static resources to a different server. If that is a problem, there are various alternative ways.
If the number of possible background images is finite, you could define every one in a class of its own:
.bgSpider { background-image: url('images/ClanSpider.png'); }
.bgFalcon { background-image: url('images/ClanFalcon.png'); }
...
and then do an .addClass() to set the correct image.
Other than that, as far as I know, there is no way to specify a path relative to the style sheet (rather than the current document) when setting a background image path in Javascript. You would have to work with absolute paths, or define a root path in JavaScript, and use that:
// in the script head
imageRoot = "http://www.example.com/mysite/images";
// later....
$("#MyHonorBox").css('backgroundImage', 'url(' + imageRoot + ClanImage + ')');
The location of the CSS file is irrelevant, you are modifying the .style property of an HTML element. This is the same as using the style attribute.
As this is CSS embedded in the document, all URIs are relative to the document.
You probably want to start the URL with a /, or if you really want the absolute location specified in your question: http://
Try adding a / at the start of the URL?