I'm new to HTML and CSS in general. Please help me with the code. I cannot get the background-image to appear in my browser although i typed the syntax correctly. All i get is an orange box, with no alert.png image. I'm following an online tutorial btw: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/31-css-background-images/#thecode
Edit 1: The image, html file and css file are all inside the same folder. Yet no success.
Edit 2: I used an unique css file name instead of a generic "style.css" (which i have several of them in my system) and it worked! Make sure there's no space between url and the parenthesis.
HTMl code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
<title>alert message</title>
</head>
<body>
<p class="alert">
<strong>Alert!</strong>
This is an alert message.
</p>
</body>
</html>
CSS code:
.alert {
width: 20em;
background-image: url(C:\Documents and Settings\USER\My Documents\alert.png);
background-color:orange;
margin: auto;
padding: 2em;
}
The url must be a string:
url("C:\Documents and Settings\USER\My Documents\alert.png");
I would guess it's a permissions issue, regardless you will most likely have problems with the URL being a file reference when you move this to a server, I would recommend moving your image into the same location (or better yet an image folder in the root of your site) as your html file and then modify your css to be this
.alert {
width: 20em;
background-image: url('/alert.png'); /* '/images/alert.png' */
background-color:orange;
margin: auto;
padding: 2em;
}
Another way of doing things is to put your text into a div, and set the image as the div's background image using css, like so:
<div class="alert">
<p>
<strong>Alert!</strong>
This is an alert message.
</p>
</div>
And, for the CSS:
.alert {
width: 20em; (Width of entire div, which includes text and bg image)
background-image: url('../alert.png');
background-color: orange;
margin: auto;
padding: 2em;
}
You can see the live JSFiddle example here: http://jsfiddle.net/Cwca22/TdDJY/
Also, in the code above, the background image will tile (repeat) both horizontally and vertically to fill the space of the div. In order to prevent this, you could make the div the same height and width as your background image, or put background-repeat: no-repeat in your css under the .alert class.
Hope this helps and good luck!
Please check your URL, if possible you can use firebug which is addon of firefox, which will definitely help you, by indicating if image has been loaded or not.
Else another solution would be give height to your alert class as follows
.alert {
width: 20em;
background-image: url('/alert.png'); /* '/images/alert.png' */
background-color:orange;
margin: auto;
padding: 2em;
height: /* height of image*/
}
First put your alert.png picture in the same folder as your html file.
Then try this in your CSS file:
body {
background: orange url("alert.png") no-repeat;
}
I think the problem was the "\" in \alert.png
Good luck!
In the original question he had in his css
background-image: url(C:\Documents and Settings\USER\My Documents\alert.png);
I ran into problems with a gallery page that had images as background thumbnails. Any image filename that had spaces would not appear. It was only the fact that one image happened to have underscores in place of spaces and that did appear that I was able to track it down. As there are spaces in his url, this could be the problem. I fixed my problem by using \ to escape any characters like spaces causing the problem. i.e.
A\ space\ in\ the\ filename.jpg
though this might not work in a Windows pathname!
If the image is in the same directory as the script he shouldn't need the full url anyway.
Related
I know there are similar questions but they don't exactly answer my problem. Am trying something really simple, turning a background image into a link, am following a tutorial and he did it easily so i tried it but it just didn't work, the image just doesn't show, i did all my checks from the tutorial but it just doesn't work for me.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="s017.css">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans|Roboto" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<h1>CSS</h1>
</body>
</html>
body{
font-family: open-sans, sans-serif;
}
#fb/*, #tw, #sc, #in, #ig, #wa*/{
height: 60px;
width: 60px;
display: block;
position: absolute;
}
#fb {
background-image: url('image03.png');
background-position: 0px 0px;
}
as for the result:
as you can see there is nothing in there other than the title
i taught it was the browser but i tried it with Mozilla and Chrome with same result.
If you are trying to use this as thumbnails, I recommend just using images instead of trying to set background images. When you are setting the background image, it isn't resizing the image, but showing a small 60x60px section of the image in the background. If the top left corner is white, that's what you are seeing. Instead of background image, try this:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com">
<img id="fb" src="http://blog.addthiscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/logo-facebook.png">
</a>
Here's a working codepen showing what I believe you are looking for. If this isn't exactly it, or there's a reason specifically you must use background image, let me know and i'll update my answer to reflect.
At first please be sure that your link for CSS file is working , As you know you should put your Style codes in s017.css file that is in your html file folder.
Probably your image size is big and didnt fit in your 60*60 (a) tag block or your image have a white space in left top position that you intered.For the first you can use background-size in css for " #fb " :
background-size:contain;
and for the 2nd probability you should crop your image with paint or other image editors.Of course,you can set the position in center of image but this is not recommended.
I hope this work for you!
Have fun !!
I cannot get this background image to appear. It is supposed to appear in the background with the header overlapping it. I'm using an id selector. I literally copied this straight from the book i have for my class and it's not working at all.
Here is my code. I'm very new to css
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Fall Nature Hikes</title>
<style>
#content { background-image: url(fall.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 640px;
height: 480px;
padding-top: 20px; }
h1 { background-color: #FFFFFF;
opacity: 0.6;
font-size: 4em;
padding: 10 px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
<h1>Fall Nature Hikes</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In my browser it works right for another image, you can check the url(fall.jpg) path is right？
I checked, your code can show the image, you can see this sample:
> https://jsfiddle.net/a9qm1j2t/
It's just copy all your html and css source code.
I think you should check image path and image type again, and make sure it's right.
May be your image path is not proper.
First check where is your css file and image file.You can verify your image path by inspecting your code on browser and in style check your image path.
I want to add a GIF image to my webpage via CSS, the size of the image should be 100px X 100px.
The file structure is as follows:
Folder:
/index.html
/car.gif
I have added the JSFiddle of the code. Can someone correct it? The GIF is not getting displayed on index.html:
Code
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#position {
background-image: url('car.gif');
width: 25px;
height: 25px;
position: absolute;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
dd
<div id="position"></div>
ss
</body>
</html>
The image (car.gif) must reside in the same directory as the CSS if you do not specify an absolute path. For this reason, the JS fiddle is useless. Check to make sure that your files are in the places you suggested they are in.
You also might benefit from a more explicit background statement, such as:
background: url('car.gif') top left no-repeat transparent;
Moreover, if your image's native size is 100px by 100px, you will need to resize it to see it properly:
background-size: 25px 25px;
I updated the other fiddle to include a more relevant version for your question:
http://jsfiddle.net/qtxg2jz5/6/
To answer Astro's comment, I can't comment on posts because I don't have enough reputation yet.
I have tested your code in my browser by replacing an image from my desktop and Image was showing up.
Once just make a change to its width and height :
width: 25px;
height: 25px;
to
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
Also Once Check this...
Ex : If our Page Url is :
www.yoursite.com/css/index.php
make sure car.gif can be accessed if you replace index.php with car.gif,
www.yoursite.com/css/cars.gif
is accessible or not.
Thats nothing but means that that file should be in same folder..
try them and hope you will get results you need..
Make sure the file car.gif is exist at the same directory or use absolute url to the image
DEMO
I have a quick question, I'm making a simple html document, with an image that I want to fill the entire page.
For some reason, it wants to create a border around the image. I've tried border="0"; and padding 0px 0px 0px 0px;
Here is the code in which I have: (You can also check it out live if you prefer www.kidbomb.com/chefwannabe)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Pre-Order Now!</title>
</head>
<body>
<img style="width: 100%; overflow:hidden;" src="http://www.kidbomb.com/chefwannabe/chefwannabepreview.png" />
</body>
</html>
Add the following CSS in your code. Default body will give some margin and padding. So better whenever you start new work, add this style in your css for getting the proper result.
body
{
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
Instead of using the img tag, set the background-image property of the body tag so it encompasses the entirety of the page.
body {
background-image: url("path/to/image.jpg");
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
I am using CSS Sprite Generator to create sprites for a web page I am working on, but it doesn't seem to work, and I don't know why...I guess it's something obvious but..!
So, I picked up 3 images, zipped, generated the PNG file (I checked out the result it is seems fine) and I got the following css classes back:
.sprite-welcom1 { background-position: 0 -30px; }
.sprite-welcom3 { background-position: 0 -109px; }
.sprite-3 { background-position: 0 -188px; }
So here is the HTML I am testing on, and for some reason all I get is a nice blank page:
<html>
<head>
<style>
.sprite-welcom1 { background-position: 0 -30px; }
.sprite-welcom3 { background-position: 0 -109px; }
.sprite-3 { background-position: 0 -188px; }
.sprite-bg {
background: url(csg-495a902b04181.png) no-repeat top left;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="sprite-bg sprite-3"></div>
</body>
</html>
Any tips?
Don't use a generator. Take the time to do it yourself from scratch. Then next time you use this method, you'll know what to look for when something has gone wrong and you'll answer your own question, and heck, maybe someone else's on Stack Overflow.
This generator isn't producing any meaningful class names for your styles, which means if you go to edit them later you're not going to know two classes from Tuesday what's going on unless you've memorized the numbers. Meaningful names will save you headaches when you return to your stylesheet later on.
Open up Photoshop, GIMP, or almost any modern image editing software. Make sure your program has the rulers option switched on, and measure your element's background image coordinates this way. In the absence of rulers - which is probably a rarity, you could always fudge around with the MeasureIt Firefox extension and the .png opened in a tab.
Define a width and height for <div class="sprite-bg sprite-3">.
Your .sprite-bg rule for background-position, set as part of the composite rule for background (the top left part), has higher precedence than the stand-alone background-position setting for .sprite-3 because it appears later in the stylesheet.
Place the rule for .sprite-bg first.
the div is empty. put something inside. like space ( ).
You have to declare a height and width for the div element. That's it.
Hrm, not quite sure what you're trying to achieve here. The multiclassing seems a bit messy. I've posted my method of spritemaps below, see if this does what you need. Usually this involves a combination of elements, the most common being an unordered list with links for navigation, but for this purpose it's just divs.
Also don't forget the order of background-position.
background-position: |top| |left|;
That's screwed me up a couple of times. Finally, A List Apart has a great article on Sprite Maps (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites/)
<html>
<head>
<style>
.sprite-container div {
background: url(csg-495a902b04181.png) top left no-repeat;
width: 20px; //width is neccessary
height: 20px; //height is neccessary
}
.sprite-3 { background-position: 0 -188px; }
.sprite-4 { background-position: -20px -188px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="sprite-container">
<div class="sprite-3"></div>
<div class="sprite-4"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
As others have mentioned, your sprite-bg element needs to have either some content to give it a height / width, or have those properties specified in the css, thusly:
.sprite-bg {
background: url(csg-495a902b04181.png) no-repeat top left;
width: 100px; /* (or whatever the width should be) */
height: 100px; /* (or whatever the height should be) */
}
As someone else mentioned, I'd move the rules for the .sprite-welcom1, .sprite-welcom3 and
.sprite-3 to beneath the main .sprite-bg in the stylesheet.
For some reason, Firefox 3 sometimes wants 2 classes in the CSS Selector to make the sprite map work. My hunch is that the rules of specificity are causing problems while the sprite map loads. By adding the additional class, it works correctly.
/* Bad */ .childClass2 { background-position: -10px -20px; }
/* Good */ .parentClass1 .childClass2 { background-position: -10px -20px; }
It's always good to “namespace” your CSS with a parentClass, to avoid unexpectedly styling a DOM tag someplace else. Here are some additional enhancements to everyones ideas from above.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.sprite-container div {
background: transparent url(//www.yourDomain.com/csg-495a902b04181.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
width: 200px; /* width is necessary */
height: 20px; /* height is necessary */
}
.sprite-container .sprite-3 { background-position: 0 -188px; }
.sprite-container .sprite-4 { background-position: -20px -188px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="sprite-container">
<div class="sprite-3"></div>
<div class="sprite-4"></div>
<!-- Empty divs are fine! Unless you *really* want text on top of
your sprite map. :o) Btw: is invisible when a hyperlink
is wrapped around it.   is not... it creates an
underscored hyperlink. Use which is a soft-hyphen.
-->
</div>
</body>
</html>
This code works in: IE 7, Firefox 3, Google Chrome 1, Opera 9 & Safari 3.
Tip: Avoiding http:// in the URL will allow the sprite map to be served up from both http:// and https:// connections.
(Scroll to the right to see the “no-repeat scroll 0 0;” )