Background hides when moving css to css folder? - css

when my css is located in the root of my website, the background loads fine by adding
background: url(images/main-bg.jpg) repeat;
into the body, but when i move the css into a folder named "css" and re-link the HREF it seems to disappear?

Are you using relative links correctly? If you're moving that .css file into a folder, the new relative path should be
background: url(../images/main-bg.jpg) repeat;
...if the images folder is in the root folder as well.
You can use a debugger like Chrome's developer tools or Firebug to double check if the resource is being loaded correctly.

Try to change path to resource background: url(../images/main-bg.jpg) repeat;

You'll need to update the CSS. The url is relative to the relationship of the CSS to the image (not the document). Try background:url(../images/main-bg.jpg) repeat;

That's because your CSS is now searching for the image in (root)/css/images/main-bg.jpg, you need to use a relative path.
background: url(../images/main-bg.jpg) repeat;
.. means go back one directory.

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Background: url('') shorthand isn't retrieving my image in CSS

My image is called main-homepage-img.jpg, it is located in the img folder that is in my project folder along with index.html and style.css. I have tried background: url('../img/main-homepage-img.jpg') and plenty more variations, none working. How do I retrieve it? I have no issue doing it in HTML but I'd like to retrieve it via CSS.
If your file directory tree is structured how it sounds, it sounds you can just use background-image: URL('./img/main-homepage-img.jpg'); and it should be able to find the image.

Load image url from css subfolder

My css file is available on the inner folder of css subfolder /css/coverdesign/mycss.css.
From that css I need to load background image url. Image is available on sub-folder /images/
I had used the following code.
background: url(../images/cover.jpg);
Guide me to load image by using proper url
Folder Structure:
/css/
/coverdesign/
- mycss.css
/images/
- cover.jpg
you need to go up 2 levels
background: url(../../images/cover.jpg);
first level to coverdesign, then css, then down into images
try absolute path
background: url(/images/cover.jpg);
or relative (go up two level)
background: url(../../images/cover.jpg);

CSS Background-Image refuses to display in ASP.Net MVC

I am having trouble displaying an background image in my ASP.NET MVC 2 application. Currently, In ~/Views/Shared/Site.master, I set my link to the style sheet to:
<link href="<%:#Url.Content("~/Content/Site.css") %>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
The image I plan to display is in my ~/Content/Images/Designs.png
Here is what I have tried
body
{
background-image: url(~/Content/Images/designs.png);
background-repeat: repeat;
font-size: .75em;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: #696969;
}
Other Tries Included:
background-image: url(./Content/Images/designs.png);
background-image: url(Content/Images/designs.png);
background-image: url(Images/designs.png);
none of the above tries worked. What can I do?
The url inside a CSS file is relative to the location of the CSS file.
So if we suppose that you have ~/content/foo.css and you want to include ~/images/foo.png here's how to reference it inside foo.css:
background-image: url(../images/foo.png);
Don't use any ~ inside a CSS file. It has no meaning.
So in your case if the CSS file is ~/Content/Site.css and you want to reference ~/Content/Images/Designs.png the correct syntax is:
background-image: url(images/designs.png);
If this doesn't work for you there might be different causes:
The image doesn't exist at that location
You didn't specify width and height to the containing element so you don't see the image
What I would recommend you is to use FireBug and inspect the corresopnding DOM element to see exactly what styles and images are applied to it.
This is what I had to do:
background-image: url('#Url.Content("~/images/foo.png")')
If you use bundles and have the directory structure like :
-Content
--lightbox
---css
----lightbox.css
---imgages
----close.png
then you can make a separate bundle for content in subdirectories by defining the bundle in that subdirectory:
bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/lightbox/css/bundle")
.Include("~/Content/lightbox/css/lightbox.css"));
background-image: url(../images/close.png);
In my case I had to back out to the root and include a path to the Content directory.
So even if my directory structure looked like:
-Content
--css
---site.css
--img
---someImg.png
I couldn't do
background-image: url(../img/someImg.png)
I had to do:
background-image: url(../../Content/img/someImg.png)
This worked locally in debug mode (no minification) and deployed to AWS (with minification) correctly.
Also, don't forget if you're using Bundle minification and you use #import in your CSS to still include the asset in the bundle. For example:
main.css
#import url(../../Content/css/some.css)
Be sure to include some.css in your bundle:
bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/global").Include(
"~/Content/css/some.css",
"~/Content/css/main.css"));
No need to do this if you're using LESS or SASS bundlers as the handler knows how to find the files and include them (that's the point!); however, if you're doing it as a straight CSS import, the bundler won't know to include it when it minifies.
Hope this helps someone!
It could be a caching issue in the browser; that is, the browser may cache an older version if the css file. Clear the cache and try again.
use below code
.background
{
background-image: url("../Images/backimage.jpg");
background-position: inherit;
}
Keep it simple stupid.
At all times, try to stick to relative paths with css url attribute.
/* Assuming your Site.css is in the folder where "Images" folder is located */
/* Your Css Image url */
background-image: url("Images/YourImageUrl");
The problem with wrong urls is that css can't locate that image as it doesn't understand the convention used on that url, hence the image is not displayed. So to keep it simple use the reigning relative path approach, and you'll never have problems.
For anyone experiencing a similar problem with a razor page.
You can use your regular CSS form, you just need to play with your folder levels.
This avoids having to do CSS inline.
Using normal HTML/CSS
body{background-image: url("images/sparks.jpg");}
My folder structure for razor
body{background-image: url("../../images/sparks.jpg");}
This Works For Me
<div style="background-image:url('/images/home.jpg')">
AS i have images folder direct in my project so
i used in url
/images/image.jpg
like
<div style="background-image:url('/images/image.jpg')">
I would recommend to just drag and drop the image. Visual Studio will generate the code automatically for you,
body
{
background-image: url('../../Content/Images/dark123.jpg');
}
This URL code is auto-generated by Visual Studio you don't need to write the code manually.
Hope this will fix your issue.
Cheers!
Had the same problem. Solved by adding double quotes in the URL specification:
No:
background-image: url(../images/ic_Chevron_bottom.svg);
Yes:
background-image: url("../images/ic_Chevron_bottom.svg");

Images defined in CSS are not displayed in a deployed MVC3 site

I have created a basic MVC3 site and have added image paths into the site.css file (part of the original template).
When I run the application through dev studio the site looks OK and the images are displayed.
When I build my installer and deploy the site onto my server the images aren't displayed.
Here is a sample of my css file:
#CustomerLogo
{
position: relative;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 300px;
height: 96px;
background-image: url(/Content/themes/base/images/CustomerLogo.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center;
background-color: rgb(41,139,178);
}
Besides ensuring that the images are actually loaded on the server, you may want to check whether the application on the server is actually running at the root directory /. For example, if your site is located at facebook.com/myGreatApp by prefixing your url with / you are telling the browser to look for images at facebook.com/Content/... which is the root rather than at facebook.com/myGreatApp/Content/...
As some other posters have mentioned, the fix for this would be to determine what the actual path from your css to those images is and to use that. A relative path would serve this perfectly and which relative option to use depends on where the css is located in relationship to the images.
Seems like issue with deploying your site to virtual directory. Anyways, you should include images relative to css file, not to application. Try
background-image: url(themes/base/images/CustomerLogo.jpg);
Have you tried a relative path? Assuming your css file resides in ~/Content/themes/base, this should work:
background-image: url(images/CustomerLogo.jpg);
You may need a .. to assist in finding the Content folder,
Example:
background-image: url(../Content/themes/base/images/CustomerLogo.jpg);
Are you sure that the URL is working? If you try to access the URL directly through the address bar, do you see the image?

How to access my .png from a folder using CSS?

I have a folder called "Images" inside my IDE and I want to access this file for my CSS property background-repeat:repeat;
How do I "call" it?
images/background.png isn't working! :(
EDIT: Here's the solution showing the hierarchy. Any help? :)
EDIT3:
I've got this now on my CSS:
body
{
background-color: #FFFFFF;
background-image: ../../Images/BackgroundPatternAlt.png;
background-repeat:repeat;
}
According to my solution explorer picture, it should work but it isn't. Any help?
ps. To clarify my CSS can modify my page properly because if I change the background-color, everything changes properly. The error must be inside the background-image address. T_T
The background images you define inside CSS is always relative to the path of the CSS (if you do not explicitly say not to).
So, if you want to use:
background: url(images/background.png) repeat;
...the CSS-file must be located in the "parent"/root of the images-folder, so I suggest you move the Images folder into App_Themes/Default.
Depends where the css file is in relation to the image. Is the .css file in a folder off the root? If so try "../images/background.png"
Depending on your web-server, pathnames can be case sensitive, so it would be:
Images/background.png
Edit: If your Images folder is in the document root of the web-server, you can always use:
/Images/background.png
As I see the picture, you must try yet another level up, at this path: ../../../Images/
Try '../../images/background.png' if the folder structure remains the same as in your Solution Explorer.

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