On 9 July 2011 17:50, Tim Climis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday, July 9, 2011 5:47:09 pm Aaron Gray wrote:
>> Why are <hr>'s white ?
>>
>>     http://www.aarongray.org/CSS-Discuss/hr.html
>>
>> ~~~ hr.html ~~~
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";>
>> <html>
>> <head>
>>   <style>
>>     body, hr {
>>       background-color: green;
>>       color: lime;
>>     }
>>   </style>
>> </head>
>> <body>
>>
>> <hr>
>>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>> ~~~
>>
>
> Color changes the text color.  HR's don't have text.  It's counter intuitive,
> but HR's are a short empty box, with a border.  so changing the background-
> color or the border-color properties will get you HRs in a different color.

Thanks Tim, border-color seems to do it.

Aaron
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