CSS not working?

Raekwon · 11-19-2006, 12:29 AM

ok, so I've been building a site for myself, just a bit about some bands, and other interests of mine.

today I figured it'd be nice to have a picture relevant to each band hanging out in the background to the side of the main content. I went about it in the normal way, as I've seen it done before, with these tags:

Code:

body	        {background-image: url(../pics/opeth.gif);
		 background-position: left center;
		 background-repeat: no-repeat;
                 }

no luck. can anyone tell me why its not working? am I actually doing anything wrong?

I'm using an external stylesheet for most of the site, but these need to be page specific, so I'm using it in <style> </style> tags in the head.

penfold · 11-19-2006, 01:40 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Raekwon

Code:

body {background-image: url(../pics/opeth.gif); background-position: left center; background-repeat: no-repeat; }

Did you make sure the picture was uploaded to the proper directory? And that the case matches?

I see nothing wrong in the code above.

Alternately, though, you could try using a specific link
url(http://mywebdomain.com/pics/opeth.gif);
instead of a relative one.

Raekwon · 11-19-2006, 02:17 AM

still no luck,

I'm hosting it from my computer, the links are all right, thats the first thing i checked cos often i make stupid mistakes like that.

I was thinking... maybe I could just use a specific body class for the band pages.

.opeth {bg stuff}

and use it in <body class="opeth">

But yeah, the problem remains that the css isn't working as it should, any idea at all why?

thanks for your help

Raekwon · 11-19-2006, 04:15 AM

ah dw, I made a class for each band page and that seems to work perfectly.

thanks for the help though penfold

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