I want to refer to an image in my main stylesheet for a Grails app and I can't get it to work. My image lives in the standard location in my Grails app...
project\web-app\images\outbound-blue.png
In my stylesheet I want to use it as a background image for a class...
.messageimg {
height:17px;
width:16px;
background-image:url(images/outbound-blue.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
This doesn't work for some reason. My stylesheet is in the normal location too, i.e.
project\web-app\css\main.css
I get a missing image marker when I load the page in the browser. I have checked that I have no typos in names etc. I have also tried fiddling around with the virtual path in the url, but I can't figure out what I need to put in there to make this work in Grails.
I don't want to use GSP and insert an IMG tag into my code because I want to control the image through styles.
So, what am I doing wrong?
A more portable way to specify image locations is to use the resource() function:
.messageimg {
height:17px;
width:16px;
background-image:url('${resource(dir: "images", file: "outbound-blue.png")}');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
Try adding "../" at the beginning of the URI. For example:
../images/outbound-blue.png
The "../" at the start of the URI tells the browser to go up one level to the parent directory then look in the images directory. Currently you have it set up to look for a subdirectory called images in the directory containing stylesheets.
Be aware though. Using $resource{... does not work within a referenced .css file. You need to add a style element.
Typically you would reference a resource in a style sheet as a relative url. The url of your image should be relative to the CSS file's location. So ../images/outbound-blue.png from /appName/css/main.css will be referencing /appName/images/outbound-blue.png
If you are still having issues, You can debug this by using a tool like firebug to inspect the page and verify each step in your style.
Verify that:
The item that you think is being styled is picking up the styles.
The image that you are referencing can be accessed both manually, and via firebug.
The css file that you are loading isn't cached and is actually refreshed by the browser.
So the problem seemed to be that the browser was looking into
http://localhost:8080/<app-name>/assets/images/<background-image-name>
which seems correct but if you inspect other images on the page, they render from the path
http://localhost:8080/<app-name>/assets/background-image-name
So, just by excluding images in your path-name should fix the issue. However, this is just a work around which I am sure would have a better explaination and a solution. Cheers.
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Hi this way i give my image path in css. it works some time but not all the time.my site may have many sub folder and then the below path may not works. so i want to specify path in my css in such a way where ever i am on my site pages or whatever pages i will looking at but image show display on page. so tell me what trick i should apply in my css for specifying which works same way for all the pages. thanks
.labeltag {
background-image: url(../images/arrowbackground.png);
margin:2px;
border-radius:5px;
}
Try finding the image from the root of your site instead:
.labeltag{background-image:url('/images/arrowbackground.png');}
Assuming 'images' is a folder in your root directory
edit: I understand code can be more readable (regarding the suggested edit), but there is a reason I type it like this - it's better performance.
I'm having a problem where I have a background image that will show up perfectly fine when I'm using it in dreamweaver, but once I upload my site and the CSS files and everything it won't show.
Here's my CSS code:
.ELSsubbg {
background-image: url('../images/NTG_images.jpg');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:top left;
}
Any help would be great.
Because you are using a relative path in your CSS, where the stylesheet is looking for the image may be different than where you are seeing it when you go to it directly in the browser.
Try using an absolute path to your images directory instead of a relative one. Assuming you can see the image in your browser at http://www.website-name.com/images/NTG_images.jpg try removing the dots to make the path absolute from the root of your website.
background-image: url('/images/NTG_images.jpg');
Have you uploaded the image? Have you uploaded it to the right place? Is the CSS looking for it where you think it should be?
The easiest way to answer these questions is to use the browser's developer tools (eg Firebug) to watch the network traffic your page generates. Look for the request where it tries to load the graphic. Is it giving a 404 error? Probably.
If you are getting a 404, look at the URL it's calling to find out why. The answer should become clear.
Are there any common pitfalls to using this attribute? I can't seem to get it to work. The image is in the same directory as my HTML page and I checked the absolute path which is correct. I also tried setting the background to a random color to see if my div placement was off or something, but the color showed.
I used:
body{
background-image: url('url');
}
Try,
background:url(image.jpg). Notice, I'm not using background-image, and just background
Make sure the path of the image is correct and relative to the CSS file.
Make sure the filename of the image is correct. The filename, including the extension, can be case sensitive.
If the URL is absolute, there's very little that can go wrong. Try creating an <img> element with the src as the url you're trying to use. If that works, make sure you're specifying it correctly in the CSS. Since you didn't say exactly what you're putting in, it's kind of hard to judge.
The url specified inside url() is relative to the CSS file, so make sure your path to the image is relative to the css file.
e.g if your css file is in a folder, and your image in an images folder, and both folders are in the same parent directory, you would access the image in the css with the path ../images/file_name.png
Cakephp is giving me some problems as I have set as below (I have tried any number of urls, through localhost, placing it in webroot and giving reference from that file, giving full route from localhost (this is a local test ubuntu machine, not a 3rd party server), etc, etc but it just doesn't show up.. I am using a custom layout that overrides the default layout and, as far as I can tell, it contains no reference to any sort of background image.. here is from my css file:
body {
background-image: url('http://localhost/site1/app/webroot/img/bg1.jpg');
font-family:'lucida grande',verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
font-size:90%;
}
I have tested that this works fine with a regular HTML file, I am hoping someone has an idea of what cake is up to that is giving me this problem.. thanks
EDIT: I have tested and I can display exactly the same image within a DIV (as its background) from the same css file.. something in Cakephp is overriding the body background-image setting, but I can't figure out what.
Place images in webroot/img
Place CSS in webroot/css
Write relative paths to references images in CSS styles:
background: url('../img/imagename.png');
You spelling for background is wrong:
ackground-image: url('/root/Desktop/bg1.jpg');
If that is not the case in your actual code, make sure that you are specifying the correct path, try adding a dot before /root/
background-image: url('./root/Desktop/bg1.jpg');
I've added a jpg file to the App_localResources folder and in the document properites specified the photo in the Background propery. In the designer it shows up as the background but when i run the page i still get the white page background.
There's no distinctly ASP.Net way of doing this.
The canonical HTML way is to include this CSS:
body { background-image: url('background.jpg'); }
If you defined the body tag with runat="server" you could add the style inline using the Attributes property, but this wouldn't be a good idea. Layout details like this should go in the Stylesheet.
Guessing that perhaps you have a stylesheet which might be overriding the background?
I would check if the built in web server was still running and stop it, then re-run your application.
* Right click on the tray icon and select "Stop".
The page is being cached, you should see your changes now.
I used fiddler to trace the calls on the image. App_LocalResources\*.jpg return an 403 error. The App_LocalResources folder is really for use for localization. If I move the image into an image folder it works fine.
Also rather than setting the Background property, use the Style property and the background property there.
Sometimes you need to clear the cache of the browser after making changes to backgrounds and colors in order for it to apply when you run the site the next time.
Take a look here:
http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cache