背景图像不显示

Question

I am trying to display a background image in my CSS and have used the relative path to the image. I have tried using different browsers but nothing seems to work. Below is my HTML.

<header>
  <h2><a href="#">Rachel Doyle Studio</a></h2>
  <nav>
    <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Embroidery</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
  </nav>
</header>
<section class="thimble">
  <div class="background-image" style="background-image: url(assets/img/art-arts-and-crafts-bright-colours-2564890.jpg)"></div>

  <div class="thimble-content-area">
    <h1>Rachel Doyles Studio</h1>
  </div>
</section>

and below is the CSS styling for the class of background-image.

.thimble background-image {

position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-size: cover;
z-index: -1;
}

I have attached a picture of the structure of my files.

Why is it doing this even though I have the correct path to jpeg.

Answer 1

You are missing a dot before background-image class name:

.thimble .background-image {

position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-size: cover;
z-index: -1;
}

Answer 2

You can use this code

 body { margin: 0; } .thimble .background-image { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-size: cover; background-image: url('https://www.w3schools.com/images/picture.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; z-index: -1; }

 <header> <h2><a href="#">Rachel Doyle Studio</a></h2> <nav> <li><a href="#">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#">Embroidery</a></li> <li><a href="#">About</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li> </nav> </header> <section class="thimble"> <div class="background-image"></div> <div class="thimble-content-area"> <h1>Rachel Doyles Studio</h1> </div> </section>

Answer 3

I think you need to add to the path you're specifying

<div class="background-image" style="background-image: url(../assets/img/art-arts-and-crafts-bright-colours-2564890.jpg)"></div>

This should work now..

Answer 4

Based on the code given, I don't think you need a separate div for the background image, either. You don't need to position it if you put the background image on .thimble directly:

.thimble {
  background-size: cover;
}

<section class="thimble" style="background-image: url(assets/img/art-arts-and-crafts-bright-colours-2564890.jpg)">
  <div class="thimble-content-area">
    <h1>Rachel Doyles Studio</h1>
  </div>
</section>