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I'm very amateur in theming. Using Basic theme for Drupal 6, I try to add an image to the very top of the page. (Something like repeating flags here) However, when I add 

<img src="images/flags.png"/>

to the upper side of page.tpl.php, the image has proper permissions but does not show up. No surprise though since the image is hyperlinked as 

http:// 127.0.0.1/drupal6/content/images/flags.png

I have also tried defining a div class="flags" at the top of page.tpl.php and then introduce the image as the div's background-image url('images/flags.png'). No success either.

Direct insertion of static images used to work on my other theme. So got really perplexed and appreciate your help.

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    Where is the image saved? You need to create an absolute path to the image.
    – sheena_d
    Jul 31, 2012 at 15:02

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Put all your theme images in a directory in your theme; let's call it img.

Then you can load them like so:

<img src="<?php echo drupal_get_path('theme', 'THEME_NAME'); ?>/img/flags.png">

Hope this helps.

(More info at drupal_get_path();)

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  • It worked Thanks! However I still can not theme it. I'v added class="flags" into image tag and defined the class in default.css as .flags{background-repeat:repeat-x;}. However the image does not repeat. Any ideas?
    – alfish
    Jul 31, 2012 at 15:20
  • That's not how img elements work. Set the background to a block element (i.e., a <div> using CSS. If you have a .css file in your theme, you just have to do .flags{background: url('img/flags.png') repeat-x;}
    – aendra
    Jul 31, 2012 at 15:37
  • Strangely, enclosing the image in a <div class="flags"... and then adding background: url('img/flags.png') repeat-x;} to layout.css did not work. So my workaround was to directly add width="100%" inside the <img> tag and use a wider image instead. I know it is not ideal, though. any ideas?
    – alfish
    Jul 31, 2012 at 16:38
  • Are you using Firebug or Google Chrome? It'd it'd help a lot if you're able to identify whether that declaration in layout.css is even visible to the div in question. Also, if at first you don't succeed -- try clearing the cache.
    – aendra
    Jul 31, 2012 at 16:43
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I think you should use the div header and css background image to put that kind of image. Anyway if you want to put a static image in the theme you can add

<img src="<?php print $GLOBALS['base_url'];?>/images/flag.png" />

$GLOBALS['base_url'] is the url of the website (http://www.example.com or http://www.example.com/folder if it's in a subfolder)

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