ANT... wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been creating a cross-browser DHTML page and have come across
> several problems. They are demonstrated in the webpage:
> http://pages.britishlibrary.net/jjrleisure/forest/forestphotos.htm
>
> 1) Short color codes do not appear to be supported. eg the title of this
> page has been give the style color:080; which should render as dark
> green, but instead renders as dark blue (I have tested the page with the
> full code 008800 which works fine.)
>
> 2) The background property does not seem to work.
> background:ddffdd url(../stripes.gif);
> is set as a body style, but the background is set to white. This renders
> fine on both NS4.76, and IE5.
>
> So, are these problems Mozilla problems - the browser not rendering the
> page correctly, or are the points above due to the properties not being
> official CSS?
You are writing illegal CSS. Color codes as you want is written with a
hash sign (#) in front. Without that character you are telling Mozilla
to look for named colours with the names "ddffdd" and "080".
I recommend putting your code (css and html) through validators when
it's not behaving correctly. I even recommend you use validators when it
is working correctly, because maybe it's only working because your
current browser is guessing correctly when it sees broken html and css.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
http://validator.w3.org/
/Daniel
>
> Cheers,
