CSS: background image not rendering

by: hieloPosted on 2008-06-30 at 13:14:35ID: 21902661

Make sure you provide the correct path to your image. Try:
h1
{
border: thin solid #0000FF;
font-family: 'Century Gothic';
font-size: large;
font-weight: bolder;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: capitalize;
color: #0000FF;
background: #C1D7DB url(http://www.yoursite.com/images/pic.gif) scroll no-repeat top left;
}

by: newbiealPosted on 2008-06-30 at 13:16:54ID: 21902678

I did that as well and it is still not rendering.

by: luoshibenPosted on 2008-06-30 at 13:20:28ID: 21902705

I believe that the problem may be due to the "no-repeat" value in your "background-image" property definition. Background-image can only take one value: the url() (file or http reference) of the image. The background property, on the other hand, can take a list of definitions. You can do it one of two ways:
h1
{
background-color: #C1D7DB;
border: thin solid #0000FF;
background-image: url(pic.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
font-family: 'Century Gothic';
font-size: large;
font-weight: bolder;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: capitalize;
color: #0000FF;
}

--OR--
h1
{
background: #C1D7DB url(pic.gif) no-repeat;
border: thin solid #0000FF;
font-family: 'Century Gothic';
font-size: large;
font-weight: bolder;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: capitalize;
color: #0000FF;
}

Hope that helps!

by: hieloPosted on 2008-06-30 at 13:33:06ID: 21902792

The syntax I gave you is correct. If the url to the image is correct, then try adding a height property and see if it shows up:
height:150px !important;

by: newbiealPosted on 2008-07-01 at 05:43:16ID: 21907132

I continue having the issue of the image not rendering. I've added the 'no-repeat' attribute and also have added the height, still same issue.

by: hieloPosted on 2008-07-01 at 06:53:16ID: 21907786

Then you must be doing something else wrong. Attached is the proof that it works! You will need to post a url to your page or you code.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
 
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
 
h1
{height:15em;
      border: thin solid #0000FF;
      font-family: 'Century Gothic';
      font-size: large;
      font-weight: bolder;
      font-style: normal;
      font-variant: normal;
      text-transform: capitalize;
      color: #0000FF;
background: #C1D7DB url(http://<site_name>/IM/I_JP/0005/320/Dichelostemma_capitatum,_flowers,I_JP523.jpg) scroll no-repeat top left;
}
 
-->
</style>
 
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello!</h1>
</body>
</html>

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by: newbiealPosted on 2008-07-01 at 06:58:52ID: 21907843

Here is my moste recent code that does not work.

h1
{
	border: thin solid #67BAFE;
	font-family: 'Century Gothic';
	font-size: large;
	font-weight: bolder;
	font-style: normal;
	font-variant: normal;
	text-transform: capitalize;
	color: #67BAFE;
	background-color: #B3D9FF;
	background-image: url('file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/MyComputer/My%20Documents/Visual%20Studio%202008/WebSites/WebApp1/Images/pic1.gif') no-repeat;
	height: 153px;
}

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by: newbiealPosted on 2008-07-01 at 07:06:31ID: 21907905

Here's the ref in the aspx page:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <link href="App_Themes/StyleSheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />    
<head runat="server">
<h1>AHeader</h1>
   <title>A Page</title>
</head>

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by: luoshibenPosted on 2008-07-01 at 08:59:35ID: 21908973

You still have the "no-repeat" value in your background-image attribute. Please see my original post for the solution. Also, referencing the image using "file:///" may not work in all browsers. It is best to reference the image relative to the page or absolutely via http://.

by: newbiealPosted on 2008-07-01 at 09:17:52ID: 21909158

I had the no-repeat removed and it still does not render. Also, I've tried relative path, however http:// would only apply if the image was not local, correct?

by: luoshibenPosted on 2008-07-01 at 09:52:03ID: 21909443

Assuming that your web page is running under SOME kind of web server (IIS, Apache), even if it is only a web server set up on your local machine, you could still use "http://" to reference the image, like http://localhost/pic.gif (if your image was in your web root folder). The way to test is to copy the http:// url to your image from your CSS file and paste it in your browser. If the image displays on its own then your path is correct, obviously.

For testing purposes, I would suggest either using the full, verified http:// path to the image on your web server, or just put the html file, the css file, and the image file all in the same directory (then reference the image like "background-image: url(pic.gif);"), just to ensure that referencing the image isn't the problem. You could even start with the CSS from hielo, as he has written out a complete and correct version of the css for you. Just change the path to the image in the url() value.

Also, when referencing the path to the image (either with http:// or relative path) make sure that you don't put quotes or "ticks" around the file path. For example:
GOOD -- background-image: url(pic.gif);
BAD -- background-image: url('pic.gif');

by: newbiealPosted on 2008-07-01 at 09:58:38ID: 21909508

Ok, that was very helpful. I finally realized that IE was not rendering my image, but when I click on Design View it renders it correctly. What could the issue be that IE is not displaying the updated page?

by: luoshibenPosted on 2008-07-01 at 10:20:34ID: 21909698

Is IE not rendering the image when using url(file:///....) to reference the image, or when you use http:// or the relative image path to reference the image? Do other browsers (FireFox, Opera) render the image when IE does not? If you are seeing the image in some editor's (Dreamweaver?) design view, it could be that the editor's internal browser does recognize the file:/// path, whereas a browser may not. Since you are creating this web page to be deployed to a web server, always use the full url to the image, or even better because it is faster, the relative path to the image.

by: newbiealPosted on 2008-07-01 at 10:27:10ID: 21909761

I'm using this in my css:

background: #B3D9FF url(../App_Themes\Images\pic1.gif);

It renders in VS2008, but not in IE nor Firefox (regardless of the path I use, whether relative or file or http for the image).

It only renders in the design view in VS2008.

by: luoshibenPosted on 2008-07-01 at 10:45:07ID: 21909905

The way you are referencing your image says that your html page is in some folder (call it HTML), and your image (pic1.gif) is in the images folder under the App_Themes folder, which is on the same level as the HTML folder. An illustration of this is:
ROOT
----[HTML]
--------html file here
----[App_Themes]
--------[Images]
------------pic1.gif

Is this correct? If not, then "../App_Themes/Images/pic1.gif" is not the correct relative path to the image file. As suggested, you might want to first eliminate some of the complexity by putting the image file directly into the same folder as the html page and then just reference the image directly, like url(pic1.gif). When you know that part works, then you can move your image file back to where you really want it and adjust your CSS accordingly. Also, it is probably best when making a relative web server path to use forward slashes "/", not backslashes "\".

by: newbiealPosted on 2008-07-01 at 12:08:49ID: 21910592

Yes, the folder structure is correct. Reading your recommendation again made me move the image and the stylesheet.css away from the App_Themes folder, Then it finally rendered. It wasn't sufficient to just move the image.

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