I'm building a page and I want a material-ui element to have a background image using background-image
CSS property. I have googled for it of course, and there are solutions but for some reason I can't see that image.
P.S.1: even changing that MUI element to regular hasn't helped me at all.
P.S.2: when I'm using inside container it shows, but that's not what I want.
UPDATE1: Tried adding height and width to container, still no luck...
import React from 'react';
import Paper from 'material-ui/Paper';
import IconButton from 'material-ui/IconButton';
import ActionHome from 'material-ui/svg-icons/action/home';
const styles = {
paperContainer: {
backgroundImage: `url(${"static/src/img/main.jpg"})`
}
};
export default class Home extends React.Component{
render(){
return(
<Paper style={styles.paperContainer}>
</Paper>
)
}
}
You have to import the image as the following, using the relative path.
import React from 'react';
import Paper from 'material-ui/Paper';
import IconButton from 'material-ui/IconButton';
import ActionHome from 'material-ui/svg-icons/action/home';
import Image from '../img/main.jpg'; // Import using relative path
const styles = {
paperContainer: {
backgroundImage: `url(${Image})`
}
};
export default class Home extends React.Component{
render(){
return(
<Paper style={styles.paperContainer}>
Some text to fill the Paper Component
</Paper>
)
}
}
I've found a fix for my case. Actually setting container height in pixels have helped.
Here's the code:
import React from 'react';
const styles = {
paperContainer: {
height: 1356,
backgroundImage: `url(${"static/src/img/main.jpg"})`
}
};
export default class Home extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
<div style={styles.paperContainer}>
</div>
)
}
}
Had the same issues while working with Material UI React and the Create React App. Here is the solution that worked for me. Note that I set up a webpack alias for the relative path
import BackgroundHeader from "assets/img/BlueDiamondBg.png"
const BackgroundHead = {
backgroundImage: 'url('+ BackgroundHeader+')'
}
<div style={BackgroundHead}>
Like Romainwn said, you need to import the image to the file. Make sure you use the relative path to parent, so instead of
static/src/img/main.jpg #looks for static folder from current file location
Do
/static/src/img/main.jpg #looks for file from host directory:
Another hack to do it would be adding an inline style tag to the component:
import React from 'react';
import Paper from 'material-ui/Paper';
import IconButton from 'material-ui/IconButton';
import ActionHome from 'material-ui/svg-icons/action/home';
import Image from '../img/main.jpg'; // Import using relative path
export default class Home extends React.Component{
render(){
return(
<Paper style="background:path/to/your/image;">
</Paper>
)
}
}
I got this to work for material-ui, where the padding on my parent element was 24px so I added 48px to the width of the background image to make it work...
const styles = {
heroContainer: {
height: 800,
backgroundImage: `url(${"../static/DSC_1037.jpg"})`,
backgroundSize: 'cover',
backgroundPosition: 'center',
width: `calc(100vw + 48px)`,
margin: -24,
padding: 24,
}
};
<Grid
container
direction="column"
justify="flex-end"
alignItems="right"
style={styles.heroContainer} >
<Grid item>Goes here</Grid>
</Grid>