Local image displays in IE but not firefox?

Question

Hey everyone,

I have the following line to display an image:

$output .= '<div><img src="C:/backup/images/000001_full.jpg"></div>';

($output is then put into an html file as a local backup). When I view the page with IE, the image is displayed fine, but not with firefox. Any idea why?

Thanks,

Dave

Answer 1

I think you want:

$output .= '<div><img src="file://c:/backup/images/000001_full.jpg"></div>';

Answer 2

Maybe because your src is not valid urlfor Firefox.
Have you tried file://c:/backup/images/000001_full.jpg ?

Answer 3

You need to close your img tag. So,

$output .= '<div><img src="C:/backup/images/000001_full.jpg" /></div>';

IE likes to play it kind of loose with HTML specs, but Firefox pays more attention to the standards.

Answer 4

Why are you using a link to the file system location? The image should be part of the site, and should be linked to as a relative URL such as \images\000001_full.jpg.

Answer 5

use relative path. i am also not sure but Something like $output .= '<div><img src="../images/000001_full.jpg"/></div>'

Answer 6

I reproduced this problem. The image displays in IE (and Chrome), but not in Firefox. The reason is because local files can't be accessed directly. Prefix the src tag with file:/// and it will work just fine as in:

$output .= '<div><img src="file:///C:/backup/images/000001_full.jpg"></div>';