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First of all, I don't know whether I have selected a proper section for this or not. I didn't find a perfect section for this. If the selected section for this trick is not valid, I am sorry; and if possible, I would change it if you have a good section suggestion.]
I accidently found a new thing that the extension (including the dot) of an image file can be omitted in the SRC attribute of IMG tag in HTML file.
So
<img src="pencil" />
is valid and showing the image if the actual file name is "
pencil.jpg".
When I put 3 images
pencil.png,
pencil.jpg and
pencil.gif in a folder and put 3
IMG tags in HTML file.
<img src="pencil" />
<img src="pencil" />
<img src="pencil" />
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Update:
This code is showing 3
PNG images in Firefox and Internet Explorer; but Chrome, Opera and Safari are showing 3
JPEG images!
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Omitting file extension also worked when I used stylesheet:
<div style="width:100px; height:100px; background-image:url(pencil)"></div>
It is displaying the image as background in a 100x100 pixel sized Div.
This trick worked on my computer on WAMP server (Apache) (http://localhost/example.htm), but it didn't work when I opened the file directly in browser (
file:///c:/wamp/www/example.htm). This trick also worked with HTML-5 document.
I have Win 7 Ultimate 32-bit with WAMP Server 2.0c installed.
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Update:
I checked this on both Windows and Linux servers but it is not working on live servers. :-(
Totally confused. It is working on my computer having server of Apache and Windows 7 OS but it is not working on live Windows or Linux servers! It is also not working when the file is opened from local harddisk.
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