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Image is not showing in my webpage
My image is not showing in my page. I used the share button to copy the link and place it in the html, but wont show. Please help!
This is the page
The issue here is that you are using Dropbox... sorry but it isnt a web hosting platform. Simply put, its blocking the files.
You need to use a correct web host suitable for the job I'm afraid.
lukeyoSuper User
Hi
Can you give some more info about this?
Hi Lukeyo, thank you for answering.
Im super new at this and want to learn html and css. Im using a simple page to do it. I need to get an image as background and Im following a tutorial to do it. Each step I did exactly what the tutorial says but the image I want to use as background is not showing up, Ive tried so many things.
Im using the share button on dropbox to copy the link and paste it on the html. This is the image on dropbox:
this is the link produced by dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6xb3psv9z3i8qca/Bck_landing_Libro_image.png?dl=0
My friend told me to change the dl=0 for raw=1. so I did.
This is the code from sublime:
And this is what shows in the browser:
Am I sharing the dropbox link correctly? Can you tell what is wrong?
Thank you
- Mark
Super User II
The issue here is that you are using Dropbox... sorry but it isnt a web hosting platform. Simply put, its blocking the files.
You need to use a correct web host suitable for the job I'm afraid.
