images not displayed in firefox 3.0.1

[Der Martin]

Hi Stefan,

your name doesn't sound as if you were English or American, but maybe you aren't German either. ;-)

I am using the following code to dynamically create a table displaying users stored in a database.

Christoph Schnauß, a regular in this forum, once wrote (translated):

Databases do not store users.
That's because right now databases still have problems with the supply
of nutrition for stored biological lifeforms.

Okay, back to topic:

I am creating hyperlinks with small icons for actions you can perform on users.
This works fine in IE, but in Firefox (3.0.1) only the 'alt' text gets showed.

Yes, this problem of IE is well-known.

echo("<a href='?page=show_operators&delete_user=1&username=$name&userid=$guid'><img src='.\icons\action_delete.png' width='16' height='16' alt='delete' border='0' ></a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;");

What the heck is a backslah good for in a URL path?
IE has a built-in pseudo intelligence that transforms backslashes to regular forward slashes before the URL is submitted to the server. Firefox, however, does not do such a translation, an so the server tries to locate files with backslashes in their names.

I'm surprised, though, that you say Firefox does show the images when you directly enter the URL in the address bar. Did you fix the backslashes manually when you tried that?

Hope that helps,
 Martin