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vlevsha
vlevsha

Reputation: 179

background:url is not displayed properly

I'm stuck. I created an image and want it to be a background image accessed through CSS for the navigation menu with text placed over it in HTML.

Here is my CSS:

.menu_item {
    background:url(../images/menu_normal.png) no-repeat;
}

Here is the HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>Quotation Form</title>
        <link href="css/menu.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

    </head>
    <body>

            <ul>
                <li class = "menu_item"><a href="#">About</li>
                <li class = "menu_item"><a href="#">Services</a></li>
                <li class = "menu_item"><a href="#">For Translators</a></li>
                <li class = "menu_item"><a href="#">Free Quotation</a></li>
            </ul>

            <img src = "images/menu_normal.png">
    </body>
</html>

Here is the result: http://eximi.dreamhosters.com/turbolingvo/menu.html

I want the image to be displayed behind the menu items just like it is displayed in the <img src...> below it.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 129

Answers (3)

tejash
tejash

Reputation: 167

You have to style your li element to adjust look

for example 

.menuitem{
background:url(../images/menu_normal.png) no-repeat;
display: block;
height: 33px;
padding: 10px;
width: 207px;
}

this is just example, you can style it however you like as per requirement

Upvotes: 1

Richard Schneider
Richard Schneider

Reputation: 35477

Change the background to be on ul element and give the ul element the class menu.

CSS

.menu {background:url(../images/menu_normal.png) no-repeat; }

HTML

<ul class='menu'>
 <li><a href="#">About</li>
 <li><a href="#">Services</a></li>
 <li><a href="#">For Translators</a></li>
 <li><a href="#">Free Quotation</a></li>                  
</ul>

Upvotes: 0

Tyssen
Tyssen

Reputation: 1711

You'll need something like:

.menu_item {
background: url("../images/menu_normal.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
float: left;
height: 53px;
line-height: 53px;
list-style: none;
text-align: center;
width: 227px;
}

Upvotes: 2

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