We use the tomcat method and have found there are no issues:
What you do is that in either your tomcat web.xml or your app xml specify :
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Which will treat the css files as jsps and parse any el expressions they
contain and in your css place the following at the top so the browser knows
its a CSS file.
/* <%@ page contentType="text/css;charset=UTF-8" %> */
And the your style cane be set as follows:
background-image:
url('${pageContext.request.contextPath}/images/image.gif');
If it sounds complex its not. The only drawback is that the CSS file won¹t
be cached by browsers and there may be a small performance hit.
Z.
>
> Haroon Rafique wrote:
>> >
>> > If your file structure is somewhat like:
>> >
>> > styles/base.css
>> > images/image.gif
>> >
>> > then you can simply change your background-image directive to say:
>> > background-image: url('../images/image.gif');
>> >
>> >
>
>
> and
>
>
>
> Musachy Barroso wrote:
>> >
>> > assuming your dir structure is like:
>> >
>> > css
>> > ...main.css
>> > images
>> > ....someimage.jpg
>> >
>> > you can use this in your css: url(../images/someimagejpg)
>> >
>> >
>
>
> Now I'm at my desk, I can see that this does indeed work. Thanks for the
> help guys.
>
> Later,
>
> Andy
