I already double checked my URL, and the name of the files, but I can't seem to get the image to show up. Why is it like that? Here's my code (take note the <p> is inside the body tags, I didn't add the full code, I only added the head and the specific problem).
<html>
<head>
<title>Head First Lounge.</title>
<link type="text/css"
rel="stylesheet"
href="stylesheet/style.css"
media="screen"/>
</head>
<p class = "guarantee">
Our guarantee: at the lounge, we're committed to providing you,
our guest, with an exceptional experience every time you visit.
Whether you're just stopping by to check in on email over an
elixir, or are here for an out-of-the-ordinary dinner, you'll
find our knowledgeable service staff pay attention to every detail.
If you're not fully satisfied, have a Blueberry Bliss Elixir on us.
</p>
And here's the CSS rule for that part
.guarantee{
background-image: url(images/background.gif);
font-family: "Geogia", "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
border-color: black;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
background-color: #a7cece;
padding: 25px;
margin: 30px;
line-height: 1.9em;
font-style: italic;
color: #444;
}
Try this:
background-image: url(../images/background.gif);
Without the ../ it is looking for an images folder inside your stylesheet folder which does not exist. So you have to go back a directory where the images folder is located.
Edit: You can also shorten up your CSS styles like so:
.guarantee{
background: #a7cece url(../images/background.gif);
border: 1px solid black;
}
The browser will be searching for the image within your stylesheet directory at the moment.
Might be worth trying changing
background-image: url(images/background.gif);
to
background-image: url(/images/background.gif);
which might be the cause of the problem.
I was having this same problem solved it by adding / to the beginning of the image url
(example: background-image: url(/images/background.gif);)
Hope this helps :)
I know this answer is a bit late but this link will give you a detailed explanation for css file paths.
/ returns to the root directory
../ moves one directory backwards
../../ moves two directory backwards
https://css-tricks.com/quick-reminder-about-file-paths/
FYI This page just helped me figure out the solution to my problem, where I was viewing an html page in my Chrome browser and the main.css was not loading the background image, and THE REASON WAS, because the 'relative link' in the main.css had a / at the beginning, and as someone said above, that goes to the ROOT folder, which on my Windows OS is of course C:, but on the server it is the root for that site which DOES work! So I had to remove that initial / at the beginning of the /images/backgroundimage.jpg link and then it DID work on windows. Now lets see if it works on my server without that slash...YUP!
So it DOES work with or without the / at the beginning of /images/backgroundimage.jpg in my css on this server, but on Windows the / brings it to the root c:\ drive. And btw I used "inspect" in the Browser and the "Console" at the bottom to see the link C:\images... that it was looking for, then found this page with this answer, that beginning / brings it to the ROOT folder.
May be you've used backward slashes (\) instead of forward slashes (/) in the image path.
I did this mistake and was fighting with my chrome browser. I copied the image path from Windows Explorer (which uses backward slashes)
Related
I'm trying to understand why some CSS isn't being friendly with me - I was messing with this codepen:
https://codepen.io/arcs/pen/OmZaex
When you enter information into the input, it has the label move up and out of the way.
I'm almost positive this line of CSS is doing the work:
#inputContainer input:valid + #inputLabel {
top: -15px;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: normal;
color: #9e9e9e;
}
I have never seen this convention before and when I try to use it on a Wordpress page, this CSS state is not being triggered.
CSSLint also declares this as invalid.
Any CSS experts out there know how to make this work on a Wordpress Page...or at least why it's not working?
Edit: I failed to mention this was inside of a Wordpress Page - I apologize for forgetting probably the most important aspect of this question
Maybe issue with relative paths to your local environment vs. where they are on the server. Try changing the paths to your files to absolute/full paths based on server. Also, is any of the css formatting working? For example,
Relative Paths
/files/style.css
Absolute Paths
http://www.yoursite.com/files/style.css
sorry i am new to CSS. I am doing a school unit where i have to create a web page using CSS based on an image design. Anyway, i finally finished and everything works great. though i found out that as a requirement for my unit i need to have my CSS file in a folder called 'styles'. so i created a new folder called 'styles', i placed my site.CSS file in there then updated my css link from:
<link href="site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
to
<link href="styles/site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> to cater for the new file path.
When i open the webpage every thing remains the same except for my unordered list background image does not display? everything else that is styled in the CSS file all works fine, just only the background image for my UL disappears. But when i put the CSS file back where it was originally from(same path as my Index.html file) and change the path back to it all works fine again and the background image re-appears.
What could i be doing wrong? i just can't figure out what to do.
the css code for the particular style:
#menu a {
height: 30px;
display: block;
vertical-align: middle;
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
font-size: small;
padding-top: 8px;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
background-image: url('images/pg_menu_bg.png');
}
Thanks for your help, i hope this isn't a stupid question!
This is because you've changed the directory structure of your project.
When you reference a filepath in css without a slash at the start, the browser assumes you are referencing relative to where the CSS file is, so when you place the CSS file in the styles directory, it's looking for the image in:
/styles/images/pg_menu_bg.png
Where the image actually exists in:
/images/pg_menu_bg.png
This is why it works when you put the css file back in the root directory (I hope that makes sense?)
You should be able to get around this by changing your background css to:
background-image: url('../images/pg_menu_bg.png');
the ../ essentially means go up one directory from the directory the css file is located in.
It would be even better to write is as:
background-image: url('/images/pg_menu_bg.png');
The slash at the beginning tells the browser to look in the root directory, this means that regardless of where your css file is located the code should work. Unfortunately this doesn't work if you're accessing the html files on your computer (as the root of your computer is C:/)
You have to change the path of your background image also. Now your CSS file isn't in the root location anymore. So you have to use something like this -
background-image: url('../images/pg_menu_bg.png');
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");
I'm trying to use background image in CSS but even though I gave the full path of the image, it doesn't work. Firebug shows "Failed to load given URL".
I'm sure that there is no permission problem in that folder.
My CSS class is
body {
background: url("H:/media/css/static/img/sprites/buttons-v3-10.png") repeat-x scroll left -800px #DCDCDC;
color: black;
font: 13px/1.2em arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;
height: 100%;
position: relative;
}
What could be causing the issue?
You are using a local path. Is that really what you want? If it is, you need to use the file:/// prefix:
file:///H:/media/css/static/img/sprites/buttons-v3-10.png
obviously, this will work only on your local computer.
Also, in many modern browsers, this works only if the page itself is also on a local file path. Addressing local files from remote (http://, https://) pages has been widely disabled due to security reasons.
I know this is really old, but I'm posting my solution anyways since google finds this thread.
background-image: url('./imagefolder/image.jpg');
That is what I do. Two dots means drill back one directory closer to root ".." while one "." should mean start where you are at as if it were root. I was having similar issues but adding that fixed it for me. You can even leave the "." in it when uploading to your host because it should work fine so long as your directory setup is exactly the same.
Source location should be the URL (relative to the css file or full web location), not a file system full path, for example:
background: url("http://localhost/media/css/static/img/sprites/buttons-v3-10.png");
background: url("static/img/sprites/buttons-v3-10.png");
Alternatively, you can try to use file:/// protocol prefix.
source URL for image can be a URL on a website like http://www.google.co.il/images/srpr/nav_logo73.png or https://https.openbsd.org/images/tshirt-26_front.gif or if you want to use a local file try this: url("file:///MacintoshHDOriginal/Users/lowri/Desktop/acgnx/image s/images/acgn-site-background-X_07.jpg")
So i have my website, www.alphenweer.nl, and that uses some images in the template.
Now the images are on the right url, they work fine, but when i load my website the images won't load? You can try it here. Please help, why won't the images load?
Greetings
Ok, so I gave a look at your css :
#header {
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
width: 985px;
background-image: url('http://images.alphenweer.nl/i/header-winter.png');
text-align: center;
height: 250px;
}
Even when I copy the url in my browser, I got a 404, so the image isn't on your webserver.
Ahh no! I found my own answer. I needed to reupload the css files, i forgot =)!
God, i'll understand when you guys are gonna thumb down! =)
if other images are loading and some are not loading on same location then it is due to hyphen that you have in your image name.
Hyphen in names gives problem in many places. Not only in CSS but when access database and table tables, directories and file names etc. So, try to avoid hyphen instead use underscore.
But I do not know why hyphen give problem. If anyone know that, pleas share your knowledge.