Referencing images in CSS File asset fail

Squiz Matrix Support
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We had always reference images in our CSS File assets (not CSS Design) via keywords such as:

background: url('./?a=299885');

/* or */


background: url(’%asset_url:299885%’);

Since being upgraded to V 5.3.1.1 we've noticed such images aren't displaying unless logged in the backend.

 

Is this bad practice we should of purged long ago or a possible bug? 

 

I can rectify this by updating with static URLs for these, but for many sites and style sheets, I'd rather avoid that scenario if possible.

 

Cheers for any assistance.

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CSS File assets are just static files, so they won't do any matrix parsing of the content before being served, so none of those methods would be re-written to full urls.

 

./?a=1234 might still work even though it doesn't get parsed.

 

If you want to use those references, I suggest using a CSS Design Asset instead, but can't remember if both methods work or just ,/?a=

 

Any reason why you are not using CSS Design Assets instead?

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Thanks Bart, Cheers for the info. I thought as much but was puzzled why these worked in the past (just luck I guess).

 

I'll look at updating these to CSS Design Assets. I can't recall why these weren't previously created as such - I vaguely recall some issues around performance with CSS Design Assets at some stage which may have spooked us.

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Since you're using 5.3, why don't you look at using the git bridge for your css+images?