Doesn't Visual Web Developer 10 allow background images?

dennisvb · Sep 26, 2010

I admit I'm a newbie to this but this should be so simple but nothing works.

I have created an Images folder in my Web page folder.

There is a bitmap called Baseball1.jpg in it.

I have tried <Body Background="/Images/Baseball1.jpg">

Nothing

I tried:
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body {background-image:url(\Images\Baseball1.jpg');}
</style>
</head>

Nada

So I tried putting;
background: url(\Images\Baseball1.jpg');}

Nothing

I know I'm doing something wrong, but what?

kulrom · Sep 27, 2010

Please explain this:

dennisvb said:
I have created an Images folder in my Web page folder.

Is the Images directory located in the root of the application? Is it outside ...?
Means, how the hierarchy of your app looks like.

JohnH · Sep 27, 2010

In VWD select Design view, select the background of the page (or the DOCUMENT element in Properties window), in Properties window select Background property and use the [...] file browser to select the image from the image folder. Now if you switch to Source view you could see something like this:

HTML:

<body background="Images/Baseball1.jpg">

This url is a client side relative url.

kulrom · Sep 27, 2010

However even if it's correct path you should always use CSS.... more flexible and powerful.

Doesn't Visual Web Developer 10 allow background images?

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