table/css background not showing.

illmatic · #1 02-02-2007, 05:20 PM

I'm having difficulty getting a background to show up in my table. I'm using an external style sheet with the following coding:

body { background-color:#cccccc; background-image:url(/orange/BACK4.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x; }

table { width:704px; height:2000px; position:absolute; top:0px;
background-image:url(/orange/TBK.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
background-attachment:scroll;
background-color:white; }

Now, the one in the body tag works just fine, but for some reason it won't load the image bckgrd in the table.. The code that I used for the table in the other page is simple:

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="orange.css" />
</head>

<body>

<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="background-image:url(/orange/TBK.png)">
<img src="/orange/SPACER.png">
</td></tr>
</table>

Is there anything wrong that I've done? If not, any suggestions how I can still get the same look by using div layers?

J to the izzosh · #2 02-02-2007, 05:43 PM

The only thing "wrong" that I noticed with your source (assuming that it's somewhat incomplete) is that you've specified a column span of two without actually having two columns, but that could be due to the incompleteness and I'm not sure that it would prevent the display of a background image.

Is it possible that you could provide a link to the page so we could see it in situ?

illmatic · #3 02-02-2007, 06:03 PM

Yeah, I haven't completed the coding just yet. I have a billion images to upload & just wanted to be sure things were looking okay before I continued.

Here is a link:

http://u-chain.org/orange/orange.html

J to the izzosh · #4 02-02-2007, 06:27 PM

I dunno, man. I poked around with it for a bit, correcting the HTML, double checking the CSS... didn't come up with much. All I can tell you that "/orange/TBK.png" doesn't exist or is a solid white image. Remember that because of the absolute path of the URI, the image must be located at http://u-chain.org/orange/TBK.png, and is case-sensitive. I only get a 403 when I visit that, so I can't tell if it's there or not, but when I replaced the background image with another image that I knew would work, it did.

In short: double check your URI, mate.

illmatic · #5 02-02-2007, 06:33 PM

It's a dotted border image.. I tried to check that too and it gave me that same error. The url is correct, but I'm wondering do I have to change permissions on the file folder and CHMOD is to 755 or something of that nature?

J to the izzosh · #6 02-02-2007, 06:41 PM

The 403 error on images usually pops up when remote linking is blocked through the server configuration or .htaccess files. I don't think that this is the case or that it's to do with the folder permissions because the link, http://u-chain.org/orange/layout.png, works fine.

Is the capitalization the same in the image name? "TBK.png"?

illmatic · #7 02-02-2007, 07:10 PM

the capitalization is fine.. but i do have the option on that prevents hotlinking. so is it best to disable that?

J to the izzosh · #8 02-02-2007, 08:21 PM

It shouldn't make a difference to your own domain, and it doesn't seem to be working very well for PNG images as I can access both your header image and the body's background, but it's worth a shot.

coffeecup · #9 03-22-2007, 06:38 PM

Quote:

All I can tell you that "/orange/TBK.png" doesn't exist or is a solid white image. Remember that because of the absolute path of the URI, the image must be located at http://u-chain.org/orange/TBK.png, and is case-sensitive.

J to the izzosh: Try 'TBCK.png' instead of 'TBK.png'. (orange/TBCK.png)
I miss things like that too when I've been staring at the monitor too long.

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