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Databases

dylan kane
dylan kane
2,772 Points
Posted by dylan kane
dylan kane
2,772 Points

Insert Json document with an image path value into a css background attribute

I have a mongodb database with documents that have img values set up like this:

"img": "../folder/img.jpg"

is it possible to use this string in my css to change the background image? I need to do this because the image should change with other values in the json document.

1 Answer

Ken Alger
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Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Dylan;

You would need to utilize some JavaScript/JQuery in there too to alter the CSS, right? You could write a script that will read the JSON document and determine if name = "Dylan", for example you pull the user.photo data from your JSON data and "push" it into your CSS/HTML. There is likely something like this out there already, perhaps not exactly or with your particular dev stack, but I can't image that it doesn't exist.

Ken