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Ruby

Posted by Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points

How do I nest an image_tag inside a link_to?

I want to nest this:

<%= image_tag "logo.svg", id:"logo" %>

inside this:

<%= link_to root_path %>

inside one of my views (it's so users are taken to the home page when they click on my logo).

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

This should work:

<%= link_to root_path do %>
  <%= image_tag "logo.svg", id:"logo" %>
<% end %>
Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points

Didn't work unfortunately. In Development, the image is there, but nothing happens on hover or click. Strangely, in Production (deployed to Heroku), it shows up as a broken image.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

That is weird, because I just tested this code locally in my own app:

<%= link_to root_path do %>
  <%= image_tag "deleted_user.png", id:"logo"  %>
<% end %>

And it works perfectly fine - displays and goes to root path on click, the html generated by these tags also looks perfectly fine. The image file is stored in the app/assets/images folder.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

If you tell me which branch this is on your github, I can take a look in deployment.

Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points
Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points

Even weirder is that when I tried it this time, it worked perfectly ;-)

Maybe the mystery is not the code, but my mind!!

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Or your browser is possessed by demons (in one of his videos, Nick Pettit mentioned that this sometimes happens, can't remember which video it was though).