Posted by Jon Slaughter on 04/19/07 08:36

"Geoff Berrow" <blthecat@ckdog.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Message-ID: <hfFVh.342$im2.312@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net> from Jon
> Slaughter contained the following:
>
>>> Tried it. Doesn't work.
>>>
>>> I'll try again to be sure but from what I recall it has the same effect
>>> in
>>> both cases.
>>>
>>
>>Nope, doesn't work.
>
> Are you working on a live server or a development subdirectory?

Both.

The issue seems this, I suppose the absolute directory is working... but the
links in the css file are not.

That is, the css file contains links to images for the background...

so in the css file there is lines like

background-image:url('images/someimage.gif');


But its not finding these images.

changing it to

background-image:url('/images/someimage.gif');

doesn't help either.

I guess I have to write a simple test case to see what the real problem is.
I can't tell if its not including the css or if it is but not the images
since theres not much in the css to tell the difference.


Its all work fine though as long as I'm accessing the css file from the root
dir but as soon as I try to reference it from a sub dir it gives me
problems.

Yeah, it seems to not be finding the images...

so the

background-image:url('/images/someimage.gif');

isn't working properly.


Ok, when I copy the Images directory to the Mathematics sub dir then
everything works...

so

background-image:url('/images/someimage.gif');

is trying to find the image in the sub directory instead of w.r.t to the
root dir.

Guess I gotta figure out what url actually does ;/


Thanks,
Jon

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