Why is background:url in CSS not working with Django?

Question

I have the following CSS code for my navigation bar:

#footer-navigation {
  background: #1841c8 url(\'../images/nav_background.gif\');
  height: 40px;
  padding:         


        

Answer 1

try setting MEDIA_ROOT in your settings to where the image lives and then use

{{ MEDIA_URL }}nav_background.gif

EDIT:

Jakub Gocławski is right. It would appear your issue is that the image does not exist where you think it exists. If you're still having a problem let us know what you get when you visit localhost:8000/< the path to the image > .