IE not displaying .INC background

Anon

I'm using Netscape 4.7 to verify my PHP stuff. Turning to IE 4.0 to confirm browser compatibility, though, gave me an unexpected problem:

The background jpg file called in an include file does not display in IE. Just white. Viewing source gives me same browser input as source viewed with Netscape.

I thought it might have something to do with Windows registered file types but playing with them did not help. I decided to temporarily do away with the include file and all is well. Anyone else see this before?

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Anon

This is the include function in question:

function html_begin ($title, $header)
{
print ("\n");
print ("<HEAD>\n");
if ($title)
print ("<TITLE>$title</TITLE>\n");
print ("</HEAD>\n");
print ("<BODY
BACKGROUND = \"background4.jpg\"
TEXT = \"white\"
LINK = \"yellow\"
VLINK = \"yellow\"
BASEFONT = \"3\"
>\n");

if ($header)
	print ("<H2>$header</H2>\n");

    print ("<BR>");

}

Anon

how about trying
BACKGROUND = \"http://my.domain.com/images/background4.jpg\"

or in other words, try the absolute url

Anon

Let's see the live problem. Otherwise, I don't think that anyone will be able to help you.

Anon

Well I tried that and it didn't work. Also, I kept the same code when I successfully merged the include file in my html document. The only difference is that it's not getting the code via an include file. Although the (view) source looks perfect with the include!?

Anon

For some reason I remember older browsers can only do .gif backgrounds? Could this be the problem?

Anon

I ran into something strange with images, IE, and include files, too. My directory looks like this:
root
root/include
root/menu
root/images

I have a file, menu/coffee.php which includes include/jsfunc.php.

jsfunc contained the following javascript function:
function showLogo()
{
parent.banner.document.logo.src='../images/logo.gif';
}

It worked fine in Netscape, but not IE.

I added this code:
if (browser_get_agent()=='IE')
$imgpath="images";
else
$imgpath="../images";

and changed the line to this:
parent.banner.document.logo.src='<?php echo $imgpath;?>/logo.gif'

Now it works in both browsers.

I have no idea why this happens, I only know it does.

HTH,
Beth