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background image is not displaying

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. structure of project

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

Solution

  • 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>