HELP - .NET 2--5 Themes Problem

[Smeat]

Hi All

In a .NET 2005 web application I am using themes to control my UI.

App_Themes
---Ford
---Images
---rvname-logo.gif
---Styles
---Default.css

In the themes stylesheet I have the following style:

img.logo
{
	src: url(../Images/rvname-logo.gif);
}

and in my aspx page I have the following html:

<asp:Image runat="server" CssClass="logo" Width="600" Height="48" ID="img1" />

My problem is that the image src is rendered as:

<img id="img1" class="logo" src="" style="height:48px;width:600px;border-width:0px;" />

which is not setting the image src attribute.

If I change the stylesheet to:

background-image: url(../Images/rvname-logo.gif);

it renders the same html but correctly sets the background image but this is no use to me as it shows a broken image on top of the background because it has not been set.

Has anyone else come across this? Does anyone know how to fix this?

Any help appreciated.

TIA

Smeat

 

[ca8msm]

which is not setting the image src attribute.

Which is the correct behaviour. CSS will apply a style to a HTML element but it cannot render or change an attribute of a HTML element.

Therefore, setting the "background-image" of an element will work correctly as this is a style whereas setting the "src" of the element will not work as the CSS "src" tag is designed to set the "location of a font file".


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[Smeat]

Thanks Ca8msm

On the assumption this can't be done i've come up with the following workaround:

In my theme directorym create a skin file:

<asp:Image runat="server" ImageUrl="Images/rvname-logo.gif" SkinID="logo" AlternateText="Logo" />

Then alter the image tag in the html to refer to the SkinID:

<asp:Image runat="server" SkinID="logo" Width="600" Height="48" ID="img1" />

Although this is not the way I expected though does work and adding a skin for the image is not really any different to adding a style in the stylesheet.

Hope this helps someone else as I spent far too long on this one.

Ta

Smeat