unable to get image to show same using CSS like it shows using standard <img>

[jasonc]

i am unable to get the image to show the same using CSS like it shows using the standard

<img src="images/myimg.gif" height="9" width="9" alt="the alt">

 

i am trying this but i get what i can only say looks like a broken image icon over the image that is shown.

img#myimg { background-image:url("images/myimg.gif"); background-repeat: no-repeat; line-height: 9px; }

<img id="myimg" alt="the alt">

 

what would be the correct way to do this.

[zeodragonzord]

I was able to get that to work.  I think perhaps the image path is incorrect.  Also, set the height and width attributes to your CSS style to match the image.  See if that helps.  If not, fully quality your image path so you can take that off the equation just for testing.  Change it back to a local path when done testing.

 

Fully qualify:  http:www.example.com/images/myimg.gif

[haku]

CSS paths are relative to the CSS document, not the HTML document. So if you are using the same path as you were in your HTML document, it's not going to work.