How to Insert Image in HTML using CSS

Friday, March 27, 2009 · Posted in

This is a tutorial about on how to inserting an image in HTML by using the CSS or the Cascading Style Sheet, most web programmers are using CSS in creating their websites. To begin with follow the steps that I provide for you below.

1. Make a directory/folder name myfirstcss.
2. Look for an image which you were going to use for this activity.
3. After creating the directory and looking for image. Open your text editor and create a file titled first_activity.html.
4. Next, create another file name style.css. This is were we are going to put all our css later.
5. You may now start. just try to follow the code given below.


HTML:

<html>
<head>
<title>your title goes heretitle>
head>
<link rel="text/css" type="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
<body>
<div id="image">div>
body>
html>
This is now the css and you have to save it in the same directory and has a filename of style.css.
#image
{
position:absolute;
width:600px;
height:100px;
background-image:url('john.gif');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
Sample Output:



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3 Responses to “How to Insert Image in HTML using CSS”

Unknown said...

doesnt work :\

lmc said...

try typing single quotation marks (') around the phrase john.gif (inside the brackets).

Donna said...

Seems to me the div wasn't closed

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