Question

I have an HTML document type which is designed to display a form pulling data from a database application and generating a webpage that can then be printed. It’s not intended to be published online, I’m just using HTML & CSS to format the page as the reporting tools within the application don’t allow for decent formatting.

I’m trying to display pictures which are held on a shared drive. The code used is

<IMG SRC="X:\images\<primarykey>.jpg" height="100">

where X is the drive on which the pictures live (which users have access to), and is the unique identifier for each picture populated by the reporting tool when the html is generated.

IE can display the pictures, but Firefox does not and displays the text instead. I really need to make this work in Firefox as IE is messing up the layout of the form further down.

I’ve experimented with changing the IMG SRC declaration, using a relative path and forward slashes, etc. but haven’t been able to get it to work.

Any advice would be great!

Thanks
Kat

Answer 1

Suggestions:

1. At mentioned by Sam, lower case the element and attributes.
2. Try src as: src="file:///X:/images/.jpg"
3. If the output is expected to be valid XHTML, you might need to ensure the is self closing, eg:<img .... />