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Bronwyn Wolfe
267 PointsImages don't appear
Have started Basic Web Design, have downloaded text editor and have files from class in folder - have named that folder Treehouse. Have tried both <img src="img/logo.gif" alt="Smells Like Bakin"> and <img src="Treehouse/img/logo.gif" alt="Smells Like Bakin"> and don't get the logo on my webpage. Have also tried to download photos for cupcake without success Am working on a PC with Firefox
9 Answers
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 PointsHi again Bronwyn,
This is what should happen:
- You should have one folder somewhere on your computer that by convention should be named after your project, eg 'Smells Like Bakin'
- Within this folder you should have your index.html file, your other .html files and folders called 'img' and 'css'.
- The 'img' folder should contain all images used in the website
- The 'css' folder should contain all .css files used for the website
This makes it easier to know exactly where to source your css and images from.
<img src="img/logo.gif">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
If you take a look at this code, you will notice that the src="" has img/ and css/ - This is telling the browser to source the image and css from those folder.
I hope this makes sense, I may be repeating myself :D
James Barnett
39,199 PointsCheck out the Treehouse blog post helpfully entitled How to Fix a Broken Image.
If you've still got questions after you read through that post your code here. For some tips on how to do that, check out the tips for asking questions video located in the right hand sidebar.
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 PointsHi Bronwyn,
Within your Treehouse folder, do you have a folder containing the images? This folder might be called something like 'img' or 'imgs'.
To make the images appear, you must source the images using the correct 'path', the syntax looks something like this:
<img src="img/logo.gif" alt="Bronwyn's Website">
In this HTML code, we are searching for the images in the 'img' folder for an image named 'logo.gif'. Please change this code accordingly for the 'path' of your image.
Hope this helps :D
Bronwyn Wolfe
267 PointsHi John
I do have a folder containing the images and have used that syntax ie <img src="img/logo.gif" alt="Smells Like Bakin"> I have also tried <img src="Treehouse/img/logo.gif" alt="Smells Like Bakin"> The webpage just shows Smells Like Bakin as text - can't work out what I'm doing wrong
Bronwyn Wolfe
267 PointsA screenshot for you https://www.dropbox.com/s/dzc8k4zlxl8glyv/Screenshot%202014-02-26%2017.06.30.png Sorry also don't know how to show the html code I'm writing on this forum...
James Barnett
39,199 PointsThe forum uses markdown to correctly format code, check out this thread on how to type code in the forum for some examples.
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 PointsHi Bronwyn, when writing a comment, you will see a link below to 'Markdown Cheatsheet'. This will show you how to show the html
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 PointsIs your logo.gif inside your img folder?
Bronwyn Wolfe
267 PointsHi John Will check the cheatsheet for clues, in the meantime I have worked out how to acces the images and css - it is making an html page that is saved in the same folder and so is in Documents and Settings on my hard drive - is that what should happen? Apologies if my questions are pretty basic but this is my first attempt at a site.
Bronwyn Wolfe
267 PointsCheers John - it appears I am making (slow) progress!
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 PointsYour doing fine. Everyone has a problem with broken links when they start out (I obviously did).
You will be great :D I hope your enjoying it despite the issues :D