any ideas why a background image tag is not working?

[photoxprt1868]

Hello,

This simple tag is not working, and I can't seem to figure out why. This is a cfm file.

<td background="/images/rightShadow.jpg" class="rightBG">&nbsp;</td>

I've tried it with and without the / infront of images. In dreamweaver it looks good the way it's supposed to look, but when I preview it, the shadow doesn't show up. The class that you see there rightBG is a style which also has the same background applied to it.

.rightBG{
width:28px;
background-image:url(/images/rightShadow.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}

 

[photoxprt1868]

actually, this is bizarre. It's working in the production server, but not locally in my machine.

Any ideas why? Thank you very much.

 

[GUJUm0deL]

This isn't really a coldfusion quetion, its more like an HTML question (forum215). But in any case, did you check to see if the image is placed on the right directory on your local machine? If it works fine on the production machine then the code is right. Make sure the image is saved in the right directory.


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[TamedTech]

Why do you have the background image defined both as an attribute on the <TD> tag and in your CSS ... i know when running HTML4 through the W3 Varification process it doesnt like have the Background as an attribute.

Like GUJ duggested, check the directory for the image on your local machine. that sounds like it is the root of your issue.

Rob

 

[photoxprt1868]

yes the directory is good. I defined it in both css and td in a desperate attempt. I posted the question here because everything was fine when it was html, but when I converted to cfm with includes and stuff is when it started acting up

 

[ecobb]

...with includes and stuff...

This means that it is almost definitely a directory issue. Remember, an include will act as if it's in the directory that it's INCLUDED IN, not the directory that it came from.


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