I have this in my CSS file:
body {style.css (line 3)
background:#CDF8FF url(images/final_bg.jpg) no-repeat scroll center top;
clear:both;
font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
That images exists, as I can get to it via the browser, but it is never displayed to me! What is wrong?
I use firebug to see if its there, every time I put my mouse over it, firebug just shows a loading icon to indicate its not there.
Thanks to anyone that can clear this confusion.
Btw, I have cleared my cache several times! I am using Firefox on my Fedora Linux box.
Odds are that the specified image doesn't really exist.
A common mistake is to place an HTML document at:
http://example.com/foo.html
with a stylesheet at
http://example.com/css/style.css
referencing an image at
http://example.com/css/images/final_bg.jpg
but actually putting the image at
http://example.com/images/final_bg.jpg
URLs in stylesheets are relative to the stylesheet, not documents which reference that stylesheet.
Move the image, or change the URL (to start with a / in the above example)
If you use relative URIs in your stylesheet, you need to make them relative to the URI of the stylesheet.
So if your stylesheet is in /css/style.css, you need to use ../images/final_bg.jpg to reference /images/final_bg.jpg correctly (or you use the absolute URI path /images/final_bg.jpg).
It's a relative URL. Should it be /images/final_bg.jpg?
Look at your web server's access log and see what's being requested.
Also, in Firebug, look at the network traffic -- are you seeing the request you expect and a success response (200)
Edit: corrected based on David's comment
try using an absolute path, especially if your css is in an external stylesheet.
url(/images/final_bg.jpg)
If that does not work try adding quotes
url('images/final_bg.jpg')
Hope this helps!
I bet on ../images/final_bg.jpg:
background:#CDF8FF url(../images/final_bg.jpg) no-repeat scroll center top;
you need to put the path inside quotes:
background:#CDF8FF url('images/final_bg.jpg') no-repeat scroll center top;
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I'm styling a form, using an input where type=image. It renders fine in FF, but not in IE (pic below), where it adds a bevelled border. It's also showing the little icon thing over my image, although I'm guessing that's because it's a form element with no action associated, perhaps? -
styling for the input is as follows, all pretty simple:
input.search-button {
display:block;
float:left;
width:25px;
height:25px;
background:url(images/search.png) no-repeat;
}
I've tried adding border:0, no joy. Any ideas as to how to best tidy up the presentation?
For the border, try setting border:none;. For the input, I would double-check your path. It looks like you are trying to use a background image INSTEAD of an actual image in the src attribute.
Also, try leading your image paths with a forward slash (/) which will take you all of the way to the root, and then drill down from there.
Hope this helps!
Matt
I hope IE9/any can be rendered as IE8/IE7 by adding below line of meta in the head of html
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8"/>
then the same css fits for every IE version
I have a background image that I want to repeat across (repeat-x) however when I try to view the page, nothing shows up. I'm also using javascript to use a different CSS file for different times of the day, however I am sure that is not the problem because firebug shows that the CSS file was added to the head.
Edit: The problem is that the browser cannot find the file, however when I attempt to link to it, it still cannot find the file.
You can download the archive of the site here:
http://cdn.duffcraft.net.adam543i.net/sitebkp-1845.zip
Its only 200 or so kb. Nothing massive.
As there is no text in your header the div will not get displayed.Try following css
#header {
background-image:url(img/night/night-time-tile.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
position:absolute;
height:100px; // Adjust height according to your image height
top:0;
left:0;
}
And you are sure the path to your image file is correct? Does Firebug load the image?
Your file structure is probably like this
index.html
css/
style.css
img/
night/
night-tile.png
Now, from your style.css you have to use a relative path to your image file. So not img/night/night-tile.png but ../img/night/night-tile.png. In your path it is looking for the image within the css directory, which is wrong.
==Update==
After downloading your code I found 2 more errors.
The first is that you forgot to add rel=stylesheet to the <link> element in which you link to your stylesheet. This way, browsers will not know it's a stylesheet.
The second is that you forgot to add a ; at the end of your first rule in your night.css, resulting in a parse error which causes the background rule not to be rendered.
Good luck fixing these issues!
If you have the Chrome browser, inspect the element where the background image should appear.
Hover over the background-image declaration in the firebug window
background-image:url(img/night/night-time-tile.png);
and you will see the full path of the image.
In the screenshot you can see the equivalent for the stackoverflow logo at the top of the page.
You can then click on the css declaration and change the url until you find the correct path for your image.
The element has no height (either explicit or from content).
This means there are no visible pixels of the element to see the image across.
I have tried different options and also the ones posted on stackoverflow. But nothing seems to work. I have logo.png file in /public/images and a custom.css file in stylesheets.
I want the background of every page to be logo.png (full screen)
I tried the following after searching a lot. But i got nothing. The background is just blank.
Please help
body{
background: url('../images/logo.png') repeat-x ;
text-align:center;
color:#fff;
}
You definitely do NOT want to use repeat-x
To illustrate why, Use the following link http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_background-image and paste the code below and see what happens, then remove the repeat-x and see the results
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body {
color: white;
background:url('paper.gif') repeat-x;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hellos World!</h1>
</body>
</html>
If your image is not displaying after remove repeat-x, it will most likely be a path issue (as others have already pointed) out or a bad image.
The only other thing is if there are other classes/divs defined in your css that override the background property that you have set in the body text. Others have suggested you use firebug. I have to whole heartedly agree. Firebug is pretty essential when dealing with HTML and CSS issues.
Firebug is available to Chrome and Firefox browsers (Firefox as a plugin, Chrome by default) but I'm unsure of other browsers.
Instead of repeat-x put repeat.
Other than that check if the path to your image is correct.
Path problem ? ^^
Can you see your image if you just navigate to it ? If not try to use firebug to see what is the problem and to solve it easily.
Full Screen background image :
I found an interesting article on css-tricks may be usefull, the author offers some solutions.
There's a JQuery plugin I've used for full screen background images, and it's called bgStetcher. You can use it to stretch background images to fill the screen. Such a thing cannot be done in CSS.
I have a background image set to my main div. The background image shows up fine in Chrome but doesn't show at all in IE. Any ideas on what would cause this?
<div class="container" style="height:900px; margin-top:0px; background-image:url(Images/bg-stadiuminner.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat;;">
Thanks
The only thing that I can think of that could be causing this is that the JPEG file is in CMYK format rather than JPG. IE can't digest CMYK images.
I think a layout issue might be more probable, though. Are you 100% sure the DIV is stretching to where you expect it to stretch? What happens if you set a background colour?
A few thoughts:
You should really opt for a stylesheet instead of embedding styles right into your div.
Your background may not be showing up because you never properly close your <div> with a </div>. Also you have an un-needed semicolon at the end of your style, but that probably wouldn't break anything.
.container {
height:900px;
margin-top:0px;
background:url(images/bg-stadiuminner.jpg) no-repeat;
}
<div class="container">
</div>
This would be a better way - try using classes rather than inline styles where possible to make maintaining the code far easier.
you also had a double ;; which may very well confuse IE.
Is the relative url available for both browsers? Attempt to plug in the url for your image in IE and see if you can even load the image from the attempted url.
Don't you need quotes around that url?
style="background-image:url('paper.gif');"
You are using inline style and also using the class 'container'. In the inline code there is no problem except there is ';;' at end of the line. We cannot see what is there in the container class. The problem might be there in the container class
I understand that elements can have multiple classes:
.rfrsh-btn {
background-image:url(../../upload/rfrsh_nb_grey.png);
...
}
.submit
{
font-size: 0.85em;
padding: 0;
}
This was working perfectly as an ID before. now I changed it to a class and lo and behold, no images.
But for some reason this <button> element doesn't seem to want to display with a background image and styles applied.
Is there a reason for this? Or am I codeblind and doing something wrong.
I can't use ID either as it's repeated many times on the page.
Thanks all :)
There are several reasons. For instance, it's quite possible your image path is not correct. It 's worth noting that paths in CSS are relative to the .css file 's location, and not to the including page.
To better understand what's going on now and in the future, however, I recommend either working with Chrome, which offers a nice set of debugging tools, or use Firefox with Firebug installed. This way you can inspect your elements and see what styles get applied, overlapped, or any images the browser cannot locate.
For more information: http://www.thetruetribe.com/2008/03/firebug-tutorial-getting-started/
Underscores in class names can cause issues. Try renaming rfrsh_btn.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Underscores_in_class_and_ID_Names