Problem with image path in Firefox 1

[theniteowl]

Hi All,
I have a problem with a site I created for a local school.
This line:

<td width="770" height="6" background="../images/contenttop.gif" colspan="3"></td>

works in IE but not in Firefox.

Before this page loads I issue this command from PHP:

echo '<base href = "'.$mydomain.$folderpath.'/'.'">';

I do this because the template for the page loads from the root and then it does an include to insert the content section into the proper area of the page. The base tag sets the base href to the folder the content page resides in so all paths would work relative to that folder.
This works fine in IE and in Firefox the paths all work correctly for loading the pages but not for loading the images that are in the images folder off the root.

Any thoughts on why this would happen? Is ../ not compatible with Firefox in some way or just regarding images rather than hrefs?


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[Vragabond]

Background is not a supported attribute in html. It's implementation usually works, but there is no guarantee when using attributes that are not part of the standard. Maybe FF is simply ignoring it. I suggest you control all that via stylesheet for better cross-browser compatibility.

 

[theniteowl]

Ooh, stylesheet. That might work a lot better than my other options. I will give it a try.
Thanks.

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[Foamcow]

What is the resulting HTML from the PHP?

echo '<base href = "'.$mydomain.$folderpath.'/'.'">';

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[theniteowl]

That did the trick Vragabond.
IE supports the background property but not Firefox but moving it into the stylesheet fixed the problem.



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