offline coding troubles with image paths
i been coding online since i started my website cuz vscode legit does not work for linking images, but since i recently switched to using a static site generator im forced to adapt to the offline coding ways and boy do they dislike me. using an https link to add images? hell yeah brother, works super well, but trying to link images from your local files?? nope, nuh uh brother. i think i did everything right, background-image: url ("../images/placeholder.jpg"); with the proper filepath used, clicking on the suggested options vscode sends me, im even avoiding using spaces in my image names cuz i feel like the naming system between neocities and vscode might be different, but absolutely nothing shows on my localhost website, while when i've been coding online everything felt fine, i dunno has this happened to anyone?
(edit: when i link to an image in the same folder as my css sheet it works, but when i link to an image in the image folder that's outsite of my css sheet folder it doesnt)