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CSS

Posted by Mark Duplock
Mark Duplock
9,549 Points

Building a simple website - early CSS lesson.

Hello everyone!

I just started the web designer courses today and I'm having a slight problem that I can't figure out.

I'm trying to add a background texture to my website, the image file is in the correct location but it is refusing to do anything - instead I'm getting the hex colour. Please take a look at my code as I cannot see what I'm doing wrong.

body{
font-family: 'Nunito', sans-serif;
color: #FAF3BC;
background: #420600 url('img/bg-texture.jpg') repeat;
}

Thanks!

2 Answers

John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points
John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points

Hi Mark:

Try putting a slash in front of your url path to your jpg. That indicates that it's starting at the root folder and working down the tree.

Mark Duplock
Mark Duplock
9,549 Points
Mark Duplock
Mark Duplock
9,549 Points

Hi John,

I figured it, lol! I thought I could use the same img folder for the the textures I was using in CSS as I was using for the HTML images. I now have funky textures, yay!