Extempore » css http://michaelhendrickx.com random ramblings of the disturbed mind Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:39:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 CSS Background not showing in IE http://michaelhendrickx.com/200912_css-background-not-showing-in-ie.html http://michaelhendrickx.com/200912_css-background-not-showing-in-ie.html#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:25:43 +0000 Michael Hendrickx http://michaelhendrickx.com/200912_css-background-not-showing-in-ie.html I searched for a while, and could not find out why places.ae wasn’t showing it’s background in IE, but it was showing it in Firefox (didn’t check other browsers).

Apparently, I had a “mistake” in my CSS files, and IE seem to trap more on this than firefox. I had the following line:


#city{ background:url(http://img.places.ae/p2bg.jpg)repeat-x scroll left top; width:100%; height:208px;}

And the missing space aftedr the url() parameter, prevented IE from showing the background. Just a quick tip in case you run into the same problems.

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Very useful tool, especially on mobile sites or sites where bandwidth is an important factor.

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