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Alex Thomas
Alex Thomas
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Posted by Alex Thomas
Alex Thomas
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setting an image as background using css

Hello, i'm trying to set an image from the file tree as the background to the html using css. I can't seem to get it to appear. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

body { background-image: img("classic.jpg"); }

2 Answers

Tray Denney
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Tray Denney
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Tray Denney
Tray Denney
Courses Plus Student 12,884 Points

Hey there! You were very close but it appears you have made a slight syntax error while setting the background image.

Try using 

body {
   background-image: url("path/to/image");
}

https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_background-image.asp is a wonderful resource on how to set the background image using CSS.

Marco Fregoso
Marco Fregoso
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Marco Fregoso
Marco Fregoso
379 Points

Tray is totally correct, however if you need to find some resources in the future the Mozilla Developer Network(MDN) is a more trustworthy source.

Tray Denney
Tray Denney
Courses Plus Student 12,884 Points
Tray Denney
Tray Denney
Courses Plus Student 12,884 Points

Thanks for adding that! It slipped my mind. Here is the MDN documentation on the background-image property: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/background-image?v=control