[typo] Referencing an image from within a CSS file of a theme

[de Villamil Frédéric]

Le 5 avr. 09 à 11:57, Tobias Weisserth a écrit :

> Hi everybody,
>
> I can't figure out something that's probably not that complicated.  
> Maybe you can sort this out easily for me.
>
> I have a theme called "mytheme" residing in themes/mytheme. That  
> theme folder looks like this:
>
> themes
>              \mytheme
>                              \... (some stuff)
>                              \images\bg_header.jpg
>                              \stylesheets
>                                                \css
>                                                        
> \application.css (this is included in the main layout and works)
>                                                       \screen
>                                                                   
> \basemod.css (this is included from within application.css and works)
>
> Now, within basemod.css I am doing this:
>
>   #header { padding: 323px 2em 1em 20px; color: #000; background:  
> #000 url(../../images/bg_header.jpg) no-repeat scroll left top; }
>
> But when running Typo using Mongrel (from within Netbeans 6.5) I am  
> getting this when it tries to access the bg_header.jpg file:
>
> Processing ThemeController#stylesheets (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-04-05  
> 11:52:06) [GET]
>   Parameters: {"filename"=>"images/bg_header.jpg"}
>   Trigger Load (0.1ms)   SELECT * FROM `triggers` WHERE (due_at <=  
> '2009-04-05 11:52:06')
>   Blog Load (0.1ms)   SELECT * FROM `blogs` ORDER BY id LIMIT 1
> Completed in 6ms (View: 0, DB: 1) | 404 Not Found [http://localhost/stylesheets/theme/images/bg_header.jpg 
> ]
>
> What is the correct way to refer to files in the images directory  
> from within stylesheets? Why is the request going to http:localhost  
> and not http://localhost:3000 where Mongrel is running? Calling the  
> request URL with port 3000 directly within the browser does not work  
> anyway, but I'm curious.
>
> Any help is welcome. Thanks!
>
> Tobias W.


Hi Tobias,

What you're looking for is ../../images/theme/some_picture.whatever

Cheers,
Frédéric

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