CSS background image help!

[pb910]

Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum, I joined up because I'm studying many programming and mark-up languages, and because I am stuck with using CSS background image

I'm trying to set an image as my background on my ASP.NET.
I've only started on CSS today, so I have no idea why this isn't working;

body   
{
    background-image: url('I:\COMP1551(Web Applications)\CWK\TestApp\TestApp\Images\cwcHeaderBackground.png');
    font-size: .80em;
    font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", "Segoe UI", Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    color: #696969;
}

What's confusing to me is that it appears to work in microsoft visual studios design view, but when I run the application in IE (the latest version), it appears to have no effect.

Any ideas?

[Sammy12]

pb910, a warm welcome to the forums!

It is highly likely that this is your problem:

url('I:\COMP1551(Web Applications)\CWK\TestApp\TestApp\Images\cwcHeaderBackground.png');

you can always just use a shortened pathway. Say your file is in the folder CWK. To access the image, you can just use

background-image: url('/CWK/testApp/testApp/images/cwcHeaderBackground.png');

Also check to make sure you have 2 testApp folders (did you mean to do that?) Also take note that the url uses forward slashes!
Let me know how it goes

Sammy

[pb910]

Originally Posted by Sammy12

pb910, a warm welcome to the forums!

It is highly likely that this is your problem:

url('I:\COMP1551(Web Applications)\CWK\TestApp\TestApp\Images\cwcHeaderBackground.png');

you can always just use a shortened pathway. Say your file is in the folder CWK. To access the image, you can just use

background-image: url('/CWK/testApp/testApp/images/cwcHeaderBackground.png');

Also check to make sure you have 2 testApp folders (did you mean to do that?) Also take note that the url uses forward slashes!
Let me know how it goes

Sammy

Thanks for reply,

According to the advice, it doesn't seem to work in designer view either :L

[Sammy12]

what file is the background-image: ; css in ?

[pb910]

Originally Posted by Sammy12

what file is the background-image: ; css in ?

you mean the location?

I:\COMP1551(Web Applications)\CWK\TestApp\TestApp\Images\cwcHeaderBackground.png

[Sammy12]

That's the location of the image. Where would be the location of the file you are using the image on?

If you are using an external stylesheet, then we need to know where that is. Wherever you used background-image: ;