From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2009-04-16T01:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Background image defined in stylesheet doesn't display

Rob Blimploid wrote:
> application.html.erb is correctly finding the stylesheet for my project
> via <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'style1' %>.  My webpages reflect the
> styling properly with a few exceptions .. the most notable being some
> .jpg images defined for background do not display at all.  I have those
> images in public/images.
>
>   

So, the URL for the images is images/... relative to the path of your 
application.

> The following is the stylesheet code containing the reference to the
> image.
>
> #navigation {
>   width: 180px;
>   height: 484px;
>   background: #7da5a8 url(backgrounds/nav-bg.jpg) no-repeat;
> }
If your stylesheet is in public/stylesheets/styles.css [example], then 
the relative path to the images directory is:
url(../images/...jpg) or url(../images/backgrounds/image.jpg)
depending on where exactly you placed the files.

Cheers,
Mohit.
4/16/2009 | 12:30 AM.