Hi,
I''d like to call a background image for every item in a list. Something
like
div#nav li.submenu {background: url(dropmenu.gif) 95% 50% no-repeat;}
the image is in public/images/dropmenu.gif
Thanks,
Peter
"background: url(/images/dropmenu.gif)" should work... "public" is your document root as far as the server is concerned... b Peter Michaux wrote:> Hi, > > I''d like to call a background image for every item in a list. Something like > > div#nav li.submenu {background: url(dropmenu.gif) 95% 50% no-repeat;} > > the image is in public/images/dropmenu.gif > > Thanks, > Peter > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
Thanks Ben.
I just got it to work with
div#nav li.submenu {background: url(../images/dropmenu.gif) 95% 50% no-repeat;}
I don''t know why. I just experimented.
-Peter
On 1/29/06, Ben Munat <bent@munat.com> wrote:> "background: url(/images/dropmenu.gif)" should work...
"public" is your document root as
> far as the server is concerned...
>
> b
>
> Peter Michaux wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I''d like to call a background image for every item in a list.
Something like
> >
> > div#nav li.submenu {background: url(dropmenu.gif) 95% 50% no-repeat;}
> >
> > the image is in public/images/dropmenu.gif
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rails mailing list
> > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
Same idea... The "public" directory is the web root (where the server looks for static files). In it is an "images" dir and a "stylesheets" dir. So, the image you want can be found at /images/dropmenu.gif (start at root, go into images) or -- when you''re in the stylesheet and hence in the stylesheets folder -- it can be found at ../images/dropmenu.gif (meaning go up one level and then down into images). Hope I''m not being too pedantic. b Peter Michaux wrote:> Thanks Ben. > > I just got it to work with > > div#nav li.submenu {background: url(../images/dropmenu.gif) 95% 50% no-repeat;} > > I don''t know why. I just experimented. > > -Peter > > On 1/29/06, Ben Munat <bent@munat.com> wrote: > >>"background: url(/images/dropmenu.gif)" should work... "public" is your document root as >>far as the server is concerned... >> >>b >> >>Peter Michaux wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I''d like to call a background image for every item in a list. Something like >>> >>>div#nav li.submenu {background: url(dropmenu.gif) 95% 50% no-repeat;} >>> >>>the image is in public/images/dropmenu.gif >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Peter >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Rails mailing list >>>Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org >>>http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Rails mailing list >>Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org >>http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >> > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
I prefer using absolute paths. /images/image.gif is much cleaner and much more clear than ../images/image.gif. What''s the ../ ? You might know now, but you may not always know. =P - Rabbit --- On 1/29/06, Ben Munat <bent@munat.com> wrote:> Same idea... > > The "public" directory is the web root (where the server looks for static files). In it is > an "images" dir and a "stylesheets" dir. So, the image you want can be found at > /images/dropmenu.gif (start at root, go into images) or -- when you''re in the stylesheet > and hence in the stylesheets folder -- it can be found at ../images/dropmenu.gif (meaning > go up one level and then down into images). > > Hope I''m not being too pedantic. > > b > > Peter Michaux wrote: > > Thanks Ben. > > > > I just got it to work with > > > > div#nav li.submenu {background: url(../images/dropmenu.gif) 95% 50% no-repeat;} > > > > I don''t know why. I just experimented. > > > > -Peter > > > > On 1/29/06, Ben Munat <bent@munat.com> wrote: > > > >>"background: url(/images/dropmenu.gif)" should work... "public" is your document root as > >>far as the server is concerned... > >> > >>b > >> > >>Peter Michaux wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I''d like to call a background image for every item in a list. Something like > >>> > >>>div#nav li.submenu {background: url(dropmenu.gif) 95% 50% no-repeat;} > >>> > >>>the image is in public/images/dropmenu.gif > >>> > >>>Thanks, > >>>Peter > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>Rails mailing list > >>>Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > >>>http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Rails mailing list > >>Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > >>http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Rails mailing list > > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
> I prefer using absolute paths. /images/image.gif is much cleaner and > much more clear than ../images/image.gif. > > What''s the ../ ? You might know now, but you may not always know. =PThere is a little problem with absolute paths. Internet Explorer does not cache them: " ... P.S. There''s an other bug in Intenet Explorer (unrelated?) that causes caching of images in CSS only happen with relative paths, so never use background-image:url(/images/blah.png) but do a background-image:url(../images/blah.png), relative to the path your CSS file is in." See the rest of the wonderful post of Thomas Fuchs here: http://mir.aculo.us/articles/2005/08/28/internet-explorer-and-ajax-image-caching-woes Best regards, Luben