Your URLs if absolute would need to contain the web application name unless your web appliation was the ROOT web application (the only one that runs at /).
Therefore if you webapp was called apple and was in webapps/apple, your image refs would need to be /apple/images/ You can use relative image URLs in your CSS OK "BUT" if you are linking to a CSS sheet, again youd need the href to point to /apple/css/mycss.css. Other than that, you can define your CSS styles in the <head> of your pages and then use relative refs to your images, e.e ../images/ Allistair -----Original Message----- From: Kristian Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 November 2005 12:28 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: css and images (stupid question?) <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="VERDANA,ARIAL" COLOR=BLUE> ------------------------------------------------------- QAS Ltd. Registered in England: No 2582055 Registered in Australia: No 082 851 474 ------------------------------------------------------- </FONT> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="VERDANA,ARIAL" COLOR=BLACK> Disclaimer: The information contained within this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. 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Initially, I created a folder "images" within my web application and referred to the images using url(images/...) with relative path names, which didn't work. Also tried to place the images folder inside $CATALINA_HOME/webapps and then using absolute image urls (/image/...), which also didn't work. So, where's the magic? I've always been through some tougher moments with css and images while dynamically generating content, but right now I feel really helpless about that. Can someone enlighten me? Cheers and thanks, Kris - -- Kristian Rink * http://zimmer428.net * jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 48874445 * fon: ++49 176 2447 2771 "Be yourself the kind of change you want to see in this world." 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