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CSS background: shows when in page; not in css file

May 14, 2009 8:13 PM

I put this in the css file:

#body {
background-image:url(images/llbckgrnd.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
}

It doesn't show in the design window of DWCS4. If I use the "Page Properties" button down in the inspector and choose the background image via that dialog box, it shows. I cut-n-pasted the exact css DW generated for that and put it in and it doesn't work.

I just don't know why the background image isn't showing up in DWCS4... (I remember seeing this happen in CS3 as well)

Any ideas?

399 Views 4 Replies Latest reply: MurraySummers, May 15, 2009 5:56 AM

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1. mk@mkcolling.com,

May 14, 2009 9:10 PM in reply to I_am_Thumbslinger

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Are the source code and css buttons showing on the top of your html document?

That happened while I was doing my tutorial this afternoon. I think it corrected when I opened the css style sheet with the document open at the same time.

Unless I open them both at the same time, the source code and main.css buttons don't show on the top of the html document.

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2. Nadia-P,

May 15, 2009 5:12 AM in reply to I_am_Thumbslinger

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I_am_Thumbslinger wrote:

I put this in the css file:
#body {
    background-image:url(images/llbckgrnd.jpg);
    background-repeat:repeat-x;
}

What happens if you change it to:

body {
    background-image:url(images/llbckgrnd.jpg);
    background-repeat:repeat-x;
}
without the hashtag in front of body

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3. I_am_Thumbslinger,

May 15, 2009 5:35 AM in reply to I_am_Thumbslinger

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awesome! Thanks to you both. The solution in this case was removing the hash mark in the css file.

(I did have both files open, just in case you were wondering)

thanks again!
kj

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4. MurraySummers,

May 15, 2009 5:56 AM in reply to I_am_Thumbslinger

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Just goes to show that there is no substitute for proper CSS syntax and usage!

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