Classpath-relative URLs in CSS

[David Grieve]

In the current implementation, absolute paths without a scheme are not resolved relative to the class path. I have created RT-21967 to track the issue.

On May 31, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Richard Bair wrote:

> I think absolute paths without a scheme (ie: /foo/bar/baz) will be relative to the classpath.
> 
> On Apr 2, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to be able to do them relative to the classpath too. I think we've seen this conversation before, what happened to the "classpath://" URL idea?
>> 
>> The W3C aren't building java applications. 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Dan
>> 
>> 
>> On 01/06/2012, at 3:54 AM, David Grieve <david.grieve at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> URLs in a stylesheet are relative to the stylesheet itself. This is per W3C standard. 
>>> 
>>> On May 31, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Werner Lehmann wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> last month I learned that FXML can process absolute paths (relative to
>>>> the root of the classpath, see quoted portion below). It would be nice to have the same in css as well:
>>>> 
>>>>> -fx-background-image: url("/some/source/folder/arrow.png");
>>>> 
>>>> Currently I have to do this instead:
>>>> 
>>>>> -fx-background-image: url("../../../arrow.png");
>>>> 
>>>> And when the css file is moved to a different package I have to remember
>>>> to update the relative urls. Also, it does not seem to work with
>>>> resources inherited from a dependency project (might be an Eclipse issue
>>>> but I suppose it would work if the class loader was used).
>>>> 
>>>> The css reference says:
>>>> 
>>>>> "/com/wicked/cool/resources/styles.css" is treated as
>>>>> "com/wicked/cool/resources/styles.css". This is consistent with FXML.
>>>> 
>>>> It seems logical to support this not only for the stylesheet but also for urls in the stylesheet, just like urls in FXML...
>>>> 
>>>> Rgds
>>>> Werner
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 23.04.2012 18:40, Greg Brown wrote:
>>>>>> Correct me if I am wrong but today FXML seems to support relative
>>>>>> paths only. For instance, if I have a shared image resource
>>>>>> "warning.png" in the root of the classpath, I have to specify it
>>>>>> like "../../../../warning.png" in the FXML, depending on which
>>>>>> package the FXML is in.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Currently, you can specify either a relative path (e.g.
>>>>> "../../warning.png") or an absolute path (relative to the classpath;
>>>>> e.g. "/warning.png") in FXML. This works for includes, script files,
>>>>> and attributes with a leading "@" symbol.
>>>>> 
>>>>> G
>>> 
>>> 
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David Grieve | Principal Member of Technical Staff
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Oracle Java Client UI and Tools
Durham, NH 03824 
 Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment