I really like the book as intermediate step before more advanced stuff, like as a precursor to the book CSS Mastery.
But had a question on why the author did something... On page 236, of Chapter 9, he is using a background image on an #header element, a gradient that fades from a top color to a bottom color, then use a background color on the element so the gradient fades into the bottom gradient color cleanly). I was wondering why would there be a reason to leave alot of empty transparent space at the bottom of the .gif image, he says he does it so the "green is knocked out for transparency", but if there was no transparent area at all on the gif, the heading would just let the background-color bleed-through anyway, so it is not needed? Also a second related question, the spiral pic on pg 237, why did he draw part of that same gradient in it? The spiral background on #heading h1 will overlap over the gradient background on #heading anyway, so as long as it is a transparent gif, it will bleed the gradient behind it through. The code can be download here in Chapter9 folder in the zip, although i should point out that in IE6 (at least on my machine), the layout seems to be broken :(. http://www.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/code/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
