> Ahmed K wrote: > > I noticed an interesting difference between the way IE6 and Mozilla draw > borders, if the border of a an object is set to "dashed" then the background > color is visible between the dashes (in mozilla) while in IE the > backgroundcolor stops before the border, . Mozilla seems to be ok with > background images as it doesn't show the background image through the dashes, > it seems to me that mozilla isn't rendering the background color as it should, > Am I right?
IMHO, you're right. But per CSS2, you've got it mixed up--it's IE and Mozilla's image rendering that's wrong. That is, according to the errata, the border should be painted on top of the background. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2001Jul/0088.html and ensuing thread Resulting Errata: http://www.w3.org/Style/css2-updates/REC-CSS2-19980512-errata#x60 http://www.w3.org/Style/css2-updates/REC-CSS2-19980512-errata#x71 Also Part C of http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2001Nov/0088.html
