Hi David,
I think John meant that, while he's writing the code he doesn't know what the name of the image will be, or the complete path, so he just puts a #, with no effect on css (no image found = no image shown). When the image will be ready to be shown he will replace the # with its URL, but meanwhile he doesn't stop writing code, waiting for it.

Emanuele

Il 06/06/2013 19:12, David Hucklesby ha scritto:
On 6/6/13 9:01 AM, John D wrote:

I agree with Tom Livingstone.  When someone is writing the code, he/she
didn't have the exact URL reference so a # sign is palced to later replace it with the correct URL. I do it all the time when writing code for Menus.



I'm picking up someone else's code and found this unfamiliar thing:

background: url("#") 100px 50px no-repeat;

Can someone tell me what 'url("#")' means?

I'm confused. Why would you use a background url like this for a menu item?
If you are now talking about the href attribute of an <a> element, that's
something else entirely, surely?

FWIW you may like to know that an href attribute of "#" actually works as a
"return to top" link - at least, in all the browsers I tried it in.
But that's HTML, not CSS. (Slaps self on wrist.)

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Emanuele Venezia
Politecnico di Torino - Area IT
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino
Tel. 011 090 6735

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