image does not appear in Firefox while it appears in IE8 and Chrome

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I have a simple html file. Image appears in Chrome and IE8 but does not appear in Firefox. Why ? Can anyone tell me what is wrong ? :)

XML

<html>
<head>
</head>

<body>

<img src="C:\Sunset.jpg" width="150px" height="150px" >

</body>
</html>

Posted 2-Jan-11 8:29am

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-02T08:36:00

Solution 1

Try it with a correct URL:

XML

<html>
<head>
</head>

<body>

<img src="file:///C:/Sunset.jpg" width="150px" height="150px" >

</body>
</html>

That'll do for FireFox (proven) and probably Chrome too.
A file URL has to start with schema file:/// and you should always use only forwared slashes (/) instead of backward ones (\).

Best Regards,
Manfred

Posted 2-Jan-11 8:36am

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

Updated 2-Jan-11 8:38am

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Valery Possoz 2-Jan-11 14:38pm

You could also use relative path <img src="../Sunset.jpg" width="150px" height="150px" >

Valery.

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 2-Jan-11 15:10pm

Thanks Valery, I forgot to point that out to OP. I even favor using relative paths over fully qualified ones as it makes it easy to try something from your local disk and then push to a web server without to much to edit (as long as your relative paths on disk are the same as on the server).
Cheers!

Close Network 2-Jan-11 15:17pm

Thanks..