I'm making a personal website and my CSS background-image doesn't seem to be working. Link to the site is http://distorts.me/new/ it seems that it doesn't find the image because it doesn't load, it is just a white area. (Sorry for the improper punctuation not very literate ) I'm using chrome.
style.css
body {
background-image: url("http://distorts.me/new/includes/background.png");
color: #C0C0C0;
}
.navbar {
margin-bottom: 0;
border-radius: 0;
}
.row.content {height: 450px}
.sidenav {
padding-top: 20px;
background-color: #808080;
height: 100%;
font-size: 20px;
}
a {
color: #C0C0C0;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #404040;
}
footer {
background-color: #555;
color: white;
padding: 15px;
}
@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {
.sidenav {
height: auto;
padding: 15px;
}
.row.content {height:auto;}
}
index.php
<html lang="en">
<!-- George M. -->
<!-- 2/26/16 -->
<?php
include 'includes/head.php';
?>
<body oncontextmenu="return false" background="includes/background.png">
<header class="container-fluid text-center" style="background-color: #404040;">
<h1>George M. - Welcome</h1>
</header>
<div class="container-fluid text-center">
<div class="row content">
<div class="col-sm-2 sidenav" style="height: 183%">
<p><a href="index-2.html">Home</a></p>
<p><a href="/about">About Me</a></p>
<p><a href="/services">Services</a></p>
<p><a href="/contact">Contact</a></p>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-8 text-middle">
<h1>Welcome</h1>
<p>test</p>
<hr>
<h3>Test</h3>
<p>test</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<footer id="foot" class="container-fluid text-center">
</footer>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('foot').innerHTML =
"<p>© " + new Date().getFullYear() + " Distorts | George M. All rights reserved. <span style='color: #808070;'>Made by George M.</span>"
</script>
</body>
</html>
head.php
<head>
<title>George M | Home</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
<meta name="author" content="Distorts">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
<script src="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.0/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
When the code is right, the most likely problem to be causing issues is caching. Some web hosting servers have caching preconfiguration and since you are using PHP, you can simply send PHP headers that prevent caching - add these lines at the very top of your header.php:
<?php
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");
?>
Another trick which can be used is timestamping / querystring - this approach basically forces the browser to reload the file since its URL is different than what it previously loaded. So naturally, we add the time variable (because time is always changing). Other developers use this method by adding a version query but that requires more maintenance.
Adding file timestamp with PHP:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css?t=<?php echo date('YmdHis');">
Output
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css?t=20160227182425">
File version example
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css?v=2.1">
Also, keep in mind that CSS background paths are relative to the CSS file itself, not HTML document. Links in html are relative to html document, links in CSS are relative to CSS file. So the correct way to reference your image is by the following:
background-image: url("includes/background.png");
Try changing your background url to background src :
background-image: src ("http://distorts.me/new/includes/background.png");
Working fine on Chrome. Try changing your background url to:
background-image: src("/includes/background.png");
And place that image to that server rather than giving full path.