If you want it to appear in a table background I'm guessing you'll need to generate html that looks something like this in teh template

<table style="background-image-url:whatever.jpg" />

except it wouldn't look exactly like that as my css is rubbish.

I've tried putting umbraco tags within html tags and it generally doesn't work.. see below

<table style="background-image-url:<umbraco:Item runat="server" field="mediaItem" xslt="concat('&lt;img src=&quot;',umbraco.library:GetMedia({0},'true')/data[@alias='umbracoFile'], '&quot; /&gt;')" xsltDisableEscaping="true"/>" />

so what I generally do is create a macro to do this for me. the macro essentially writes the html out based on criteria you give it.

<table style="background-image-url:{umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/data [@alias = 'ArtworkImage'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']}">

There's bound to be a syntax error or three in there, but basically it's pulling the path to teh image from umbraco, the {} allow you to place that umbraco.library:Getmedia call anywhere you like, its rather like <?=blah?> in PHP

table style="background-image-url:<umbraco:Item runat="server" field="mediaItem" xslt="concat('&lt;img src=&quot;',umbraco.library:GetMedia({0},'true')/data[@alias='umbracoFile'], '&quot; /&gt;')" xsltDisableEscaping="true"/>" />

need to use single quote with in double quotes....

ex:

<img src="<umbraco:Item field='Img' useIfEmpty='Img' runat='server'></umbraco:Item>" alt="image" />

Hi Peter

If you need to insert the image path into a variable you'll need to fetch it using  a XSLT macro where you can declare a variable.

<xsl:variable name="myImage" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/data [@alias = 'ArtworkImage'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']" />

<table style="background:url({$myImage})">

Hope this is what you are looking for.

/Jan

<xsl:variable name="imgAlias" select="./data [@alias = 'yourImagepath']" />

  <li style="background-image:url({$imgAlias})">

     <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">

      <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>

    </a>

  </li>

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