to get to the img directory you need to go up one directory ( "../" ) and
then into the img directory
<body background="../img/backgroundimage.jpg">
hope that helps
nick
At 04:38 10/07/01 -0700, Ken Sommers wrote:
>I Looked up the root..sorry
> it is DOCUMENT_ROOT ...... /htdocs/www
>so I guess browsers think they are starting out at /htdocs/www and can't go
>below to get anything?
>so if I have phtml pages at /htdocs/util/ like
>www.util.consumergrapevine.org/showdatabases.php and images at
>/htdocs/www/img can I use an image in /htdocs/www/img as sa background imge
>in a page located in dir /htdocs/util/ ??
>if so,what would be the body tag look like?
><body background="/img/backgroundimage.jpg"> ?
>or should I move my /img/ dir somewhere else like maybe throw 'em in with
>all the pages in /htdocs/www
>?
>
>thanks again,
>
>Ken
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tom Peck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 4:00 PM
>Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] HTML question
>
>
> > Is /htdocs/ your web root? If it isn't the browser loading up the page
> > would not have access to /www/img/backgroundimage.jpg. If it is - try
> > removing the space after the .jpg in your body tag look like?
> ><body background="/www/img/backgroundimage.jpg">
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > At 15:51 10/07/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Hello, pure HTML server question:
> > >
> > >images like (backgroundimage.jpg) stored on server at: /htdocs/www/img
> > >
> > >util.showpic.html is stored at : /htdocs/util/
> > >
> > >How to use backgroundimage.jpg as background in util.showpic.html ?
> > >
> > >
> > ><body background="/www/img/backgroundimage.jpg ">
> > >
> > >does not work..
> > >what if anything will work?
> > >
> > >Thnaks
> > >Ken
> > >
> > >
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