CSS background-image: url(none) leading to errors in apache log file

Question

I have run into a strange problem. When I use:

background-image: url(none);

in my css file, it generates an error in the apache log file:

File does not exist: /...../styles/none, referer: http://blabla.com/styles/styles.css

I have used the W3C CSS validator and there are no errors (just some warnings about floats needing widths).

I used to have:

background-image: none;

but I have changed all instances and the most up-to-date stylesheet is used.

Is this normal behaviour or is it more likely that I have an error somewhere in my stylesheet?

Answer 1

This is normal. By using the url() syntax, anything you put into the brackets is considered to be a URL. The browsers are making an http request for a resource called none.

Basically, you've specified an invalid url for a background image.