HTML and CSS Background-image is not showing up

Question

I already double checked my URL, and the name of the files, but I can\'t seem to get the image to show up. Why is it like that? Here\'s my code (take note the

Answer 1

The browser will be searching for the image within your stylesheet directory at the moment.

Might be worth trying changing

background-image: url(images/background.gif);

to

background-image: url(/images/background.gif);

which might be the cause of the problem.