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Cannot Preview images or CSS


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Hi All,

As I could not find any posts that refered to my problem I am posting it here.

I am using PHPEd 4.5 and have found that I cannot preview images in a .html page I am working on. Nor does the CSS located in an external file seem to be applied.

My Project directory structure is thus:


Code:
   Project_Directory(PD)
                       |
                         site
                             |
                               html
                             |
                               images
                             |
                               css



I place an HTML file, test.html in the PD/site/html directory. I place an image in PD/site/images and I place a CSS file in PD/site/css.

In my HTML file I attempt to access the CSS file using:

<link href="../css/products.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

I also place an image in the HTML file using:

<img src="../images/logo.jpg" width="188" height="94" border="0">

I then attempt to style some text using styles defined in the CSS file:


<div id="aTextStyle">THIS SHOULD BE SOME STYLED TEXT</div>

Now, if I upload this to my server it works correctly, but if I try to preview it locally all I see is the broken link to the image and the bare, un-CSS styled text.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the Preview feature working correctly?

Thanks,

Jeff
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Shouldn't the relative links be

Code:
./../
..?
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Preview tab loads HTML file into browser directly and therefore you won't see neither imager nor CSS applied nor any other linked files.
To make a real preview you have to pass HTML through the web server. Right?
So, just press RUN button. It's easy Smile
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Joe Belmaati wrote:
Shouldn't the relative links be

Code:
./../
..?



Actually, the 'site' directory is the DocumentRoot on the web server for that project, so from the 'html' directory '../images/' would be the correct relative link to the 'images' directory.

The reason I start this project from the 'Project_Directory' is that I have multiple projects that are all located in that main directory. It makes it easier for me to access multiple projects using a single Account setup.

Jeff
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ddmitrie wrote:
Preview tab loads HTML file into browser directly and therefore you won't see neither imager nor CSS applied nor any other linked files.
To make a real preview you have to pass HTML through the web server. Right?
So, just press RUN button. It's easy Smile


Not to be contrary, but what is the use of a Preview tab if it does not preview anything? I would expect that it would at least show images if they are correctly referenced. Maybe I cannot expect a Dreamweaver type preview, which will actually allow you to use design-time CSS linking, but at least the preview can show the basic page graphical layout, dont' you think?

Why have a preview tab if you need to run everything through a web server? If that is the case, I can just use my Firefox or IE browser to test my files. The preview tab would just be adding confusion.

Jeff
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Quote:
I can just use my Firefox or IE browser to test my files.

Sure you can.
But I thnk [Run] button is a bit faster.
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