Re: Background URL property in different browsers.

oopaevah (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk (Gaz) wrote in message news:<76ee1253.0407300651.6b433ca1 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com>...

This css will work for Firefox :


body
{
background:white url('Images/background test.gif') bottom right
no-repeat fixed; /*firefox works*/
}

And this css works for IE.

body
{
background:white url('../Images/background test.gif') bottom right
no-repeat fixed; /*IE6 works*/
}

Is this just one of those things? It would be nice to know which
browser is doing it right though.

I don't know if there's a way around it, but it looks like IE is the
one doing it right:

For CSS style sheets, the base URI is that of the style sheet, not
that of the source document.

Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#x48

Thanks, there are two workarounds I can think of.

1) Put css files in the same directory as the source. Not good if you
want to centralize your css files.

2) Put background/list style/etc.. images in the css directory, which
feels semi-natural I suppose since they are directly linked to style.

Of course this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cross
-browser differences in rendering css. Isn't it feasible to centralize
a browsing rendering engine and for all browsers to use it? Like Open
GL or other cross-system APIs. Rendering is only one element of a
browser so the bigger browsers would lose none of their other features
if they did this. This would solve all this stupidity with different
companies doing different things with something that should be the
same!!!

Let's start a petition. Perhaps in 2016 it might all be sorted out.

I don't know if there's a way around it, but it looks like IE is the
one doing it right:

For CSS style sheets, the base URI is that of the style sheet, not
that of the source document.

Meant this :

2) Put background/list style/etc.. images in the css *and* the source directory...


Not this :

2) Put background/list style/etc.. images in the css directory, which
feels semi-natural I suppose since they are directly linked to style.