Background in IE not working.

[alan28]

I have set the background in my css file as so
body {
background-image: url(background.gif);
}

It shows up in firefox but not in ie 6. What is happening?

 

[j4606]

Try

body	{
	background-image:url('background.gif');
}

Thats the format I use on my sites. If that doesn't work, something else might be messing with your bg.

 

[Foamcow]

You don't need to use quotes.

It is either:

1. The path specified to the image is incorrect. The path should be relative to the file in which the CSS resides.

2. You can't see the background as the element has no height. Are there any elements inside this element? Are they floated? Floated elements will not effect the height of the element their containing element.

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[cLFlaVA]

i would also want to know what else you have in your style sheet. i find it hard to believe there's only one single style entry for one single element. css errors cause other css definitions to work improperly.



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[dkdude]

If the background.gif is a larger file, then try to clear IE's cache. I've had some funky problems due to caching of images...

Regards


Jakob

 

[PGoRule]

You can use this as:
<STYLE type="text/css">
<!--
BODY { background-image:url(image1.gif);}
-->
</STYLE>

or,
<STYLE type="text/css">
<!--
BODY { background-image:url(

http://yoursite.com/image.gif)}

-->
</STYLE>

depending on the image location path. This works perfectly on FF and IE. If you are getting the same output, do post the complete CSS. Any other contents in that CSS might be preventing the backgroud image.

Prashant

 

[cLFlaVA]

pgorule,

html comment tags are not valid inside of style definition tags. also, why are you repeating answers that already appeared?



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