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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Basic Layout Styling the "Wildlife" div with Background Properties

Ken Fuller
Ken Fuller
4,315 Points
Posted by Ken Fuller
Ken Fuller
4,315 Points

Challenge question, background image path.

I don't understand why this is a 'bummer':

.wildlife { background-image: url('../img/bear.jpg'); }

Ken Fuller
Ken Fuller
4,315 Points
Ken Fuller
Ken Fuller
4,315 Points

Now I get it, the image is NOT in a separate folder, so the .. is not needed.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

Actually, the image is in a separate folder (img). But that folder is inside the folder that the document is in. So you want to reference it as img/bear.jpg. You would reference it as ../img/bear.jpg if it was in a different folder that was a peer in the folder hierarchy to the one the document was in.