Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Jan 11, 2015, at 2:02 AM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: 2015-01-11, 9:48, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: I would suggest a little trip to WC3. I wonder what that means. it means study time See here: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp The w3schools site,

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2015-01-11, 9:48, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: I would suggest a little trip to WC3. I wonder what that means. See here: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp The w3schools site, unreliable and with rather low information/noise ratio, intentionally wants to be confused with the Word

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Philip Taylor
Tom Livingston wrote: For someone at the OPs level, I'd not recommend a site with such a bad reputation. He won't know if what he is reading is correct. While that site may be improved as of late, why start learning at such a poorly regarded source. There are much more reputable places to

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Barney Carroll
I'm amazed it took this long for a link to the W3 validator to creep into the conversation. Maybe if we keep at it the list archives will trump w3schools in search results? Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 11 January 2015 at 16:22, Tom

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Tom Livingston
For someone at the OPs level, I'd not recommend a site with such a bad reputation. He won't know if what he is reading is correct. While that site may be improved as of late, why start learning at such a poorly regarded source. There are much more reputable places to learn the basics.

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Wade Smart
w3school is at the top for so many searches. It would be great if they would just clean up their site. -- Registered Linux User: #480675 Registered Linux Machine: #408606 Linux since June 2005 On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm amazed it took

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Tom Livingston
Schoolboy errors, which indicate (to my mind) the level of care (or lack thereof) that went into the preparation of the material : Error Line 453, Column 88: did not start a character reference. ( probably should have been escaped as amp;.)

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Philip Taylor
Tom Livingston wrote: In a URL string like that, I personally would not look down on the dev for that. We could debate this forever, Tom, and I suspect would never reach agreement. My position (with which you may well disagree) is that I look on it as being similar to a developer who

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Tom Livingston
It appears that the errors are for things that are not yet part of the spec the validator is based on. I would not call that bad code. On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:17 AM Philip Taylor p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Tom Livingston wrote: For someone at the OPs level, I'd not recommend a site with

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Philip Taylor
Tom Livingston wrote: It appears that the errors are for things that are not yet part of the spec the validator is based on. I would not call that bad code. Schoolboy errors, which indicate (to my mind) the level of care (or lack thereof) that went into the preparation of the material :

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Tom Livingston
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Philip Taylor p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Tom Livingston wrote: In a URL string like that, I personally would not look down on the dev for that. We could debate this forever, Tom, and I suspect would never reach agreement. My position (with which you may

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-10 Thread John Andrews
Try making the background color the last item in the list. On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Crest Christopher crestchristop...@gmail.com wrote: The background image should sit on-top of the background color, instead the background color is overriding my background image ?

[css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-10 Thread Crest Christopher
The background image should sit on-top of the background color, instead the background color is overriding my background image ? background-color:#343630;/*#b7b7b7;*/ background:url(/wdp/wip/overlay_bg.png); background-position:top; background-blend-mode: overlay;

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2015-01-11, 6:59, Crest Christopher wrote: The background image should sit on-top of the background color, Yes, if both are specified. instead the background color is overriding my background image ? background-color:#343630;/*#b7b7b7;*/ background:url(/wdp/wip/overlay_bg.png);

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-10 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
I would suggest a little trip to WC3. You have posted this a lot. it should be background-image: if your just setting the url attribute to your background image. background: if your setting the url, position, size, origin, color, etc as the shorthand notation. See here: