Background images

#1

Can someone explain why, when I select an image from file as a page background, it doesn't show when previewing in IE or Safari. (F12)

Thanks.

#2

Try using CSS like:
<body style="background-image:url(/images/background.jpg)">

Scott

"darrel" <notreal (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Can someone explain why, when I select an image from file as a page
background, it doesn't show when previewing in IE or Safari. (F12)

Not without more information.

Here are some wild guesses:

- you are not using a valid file format
- you are not linking to the correct location of the image
- you have a syntax error in your HTML

-Darrel

#3

Ugh. Don't use good technology with deprecated methods.

<style type="text/css">

</style>

would be a much better method.

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"Scott Horvath" <horvats (AT) onr (DOT) navy.mil> wrote

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Try using CSS like:
body style="background-image:url(/images/background.jpg)"

Scott

"darrel" <notreal (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message
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Can someone explain why, when I select an image from file as a page
background, it doesn't show when previewing in IE or Safari. (F12)

Not without more information.

Here are some wild guesses:

- you are not using a valid file format
- you are not linking to the correct location of the image
- you have a syntax error in your HTML

-Darrel

#4

Have tried the following:
<style type="text/css">

</style>

Tried to view using preview and still have a blank page.
Any ideas?

#5

Well yeah - the link to the image is broken (it's pointing to the file on
your hard drive), and you have created a custom class called "bckgrd" but
I'm guessing you have not applied it to anything on the page.

To have a page background image automatically applied, redefine the body
tag, as I showed in my previous post. Then you don't need to do anything.

But if you show me your page code, I can confirm why you are not seeing a
background image.

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"Kezele" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

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Have tried the following:
style type="text/css"
!--
.bckgrd {
background-image:

url(file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/username/Sites/site_name/1A9020.hires.jpg);
}
--
/style

Tried to view using preview and still have a blank page.
Any ideas?

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