Setting background-image using jQuery CSS property

Question

I have an image URL in a imageUrl variable and I am trying to set it as CSS style, using jQuery:

$(\'myObject\').css(\'background-image\', image         


        

Answer 1

Alternatively to what the others are correctly suggesting, I find it easier usually to toggle CSS classes, instead of individual CSS settings (especially background image URLs). For example:

// in CSS 
.bg1 
{
  background-image: url(/some/image/url/here.jpg);
}

.bg2 
{
  background-image: url(/another/image/url/there.jpg);
}

// in JS
// based on value of imageUrl, determine what class to remove and what class to add.
$('myOjbect').removeClass('bg1').addClass('bg2');