Backgroundimage is not working in react

Question

I am new to react and trying to get background image with inline styling. But it's not working.

Showing error "url is not defined"

  render() {
    return (
        <div className="phase1" 
             style ={ { backgroundImage: url('https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/MOf9Kxxkj7GvyZlTZOnUzuYv0JAweEhlxJX6gslQvbvlhLK5_bSTK6duxY2xfbBsj43H=w300') } }>

            <input id="search" 
                   type="text" 
                   placeholder={this.state.search} 
                   onChange={this.updateSearch.bind(this)}/>
            &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;

            <Link className="button1" to="Form"> + </Link>
        </div>
       )
    }
 }

Answer 1

CSS values are always strings. Wrap the backgroundImage value in quotation marks to make it a string:

<div className="phase1" style ={ { backgroundImage: "url('https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/MOf9Kxxkj7GvyZlTZOnUzuYv0JAweEhlxJX6gslQvbvlhLK5_bSTK6duxY2xfbBsj43H=w300')" } }>

Answer 2

Faced a similar problem and this did the trick for me

style={{backgroundImage: 'url(' + require('./images/sword.png') + ')'}}

the trick was adding the require

Answer 3

In my case, i have url with space on it, so it needs to be wrapped with quotes mark ex: 'url', because i got url (imagePath) directly from server.

<div style={{ backgroundImage: `url('${imagePath}')` }} />

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 4

In React putting relative paths for images like this

<div className="container-login100" style={{ backgroundImage: "url('./folder/images/bg-01.jpg')" }}>

doesn't seems to work as it is JSX, you need to import the image or require it

import BackgroundImage from './../frontend_authentication_copied/images/bg-01.jpg'

...

styles = {
        backgroundImage: `url(${BackgroundImage})`
    }

...

<div className="container-login100" style={this.styles}>

Just make sure you put all the images inside the src folder since relative imports are not supported from outside the src folder if create-react-app is used.