adding a background image

[Herodotus 0]

This does not help me at all
body {
 background-image: url("paper.gif");
}

How are you going to teach and certify people when I cant even learn to add a background image?
Why are you suing URL and not img?
That code above does not work at all
And apparently on the entire CSS standards you provide me with the vaguest littlest description with zero information and nothing else? Why?

That code does not work, not at all not even in the slightest.

[dsonesuk 871]

Your Right! we should scrap the url, even though its been used that way since year dot, because you and only you don't know how to implement it correctly. 

1) do you have a local server?

2) are the image and the document this CSS is used on, in the same directory?

Then it should work!