Title: adding the full image path to a wordpress javascript file
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# adding the full image path to a wordpress javascript file

 *  [Jonathan Beech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathan-beech/)
 * (@jonathan-beech)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-the-full-image-path-to-a-wordpress-javascript-file/)
 * I am currently building a WordPress theme where I am using jQuery to append and
   prepend some ornate images to a h4 tag with a class of beechheader in the page
   template markup.
 * Before turning the static html files into a WordPress theme, the code below worked
   fine and appended and prepended the images to any h4 tag with a class of beechheader.
   The code is in a separate file called whatever.js located in the javascripts 
   directory inside the theme
 * The jQuery code appears to be enqueued correctly in the functions file and I 
   have called the whatever.js code inside the footer.php file using:
 * `<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/javascripts/whatever.js"
   ></script>`
    right before the closing body tag.
 * Here is the code inside the whatever.js file that worked fine statically but 
   now doesnt work
 *  `// prepend some images to the headers
    $(function() {
 * $(“h4.beechheader”)
    .prepend(‘<img src=”/images/beechleft.gif” alt=”” />’) .
   append(‘<img src=”/images/beechright.gif” alt=”” />’); });` I tried adding
 * `<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>`
    before the trailing slash before
   images as you would in the html file. My research leads me to believe jQuery 
   files may need to be handled a bit differently using the wp_localize_script function
   but I am unsure of the syntax or what to do. Can anyone help?

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