On 16/06/06, David Hucklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The default value for background-color when none is defined is
transparent, allowing any background set on an enclosing element to shine
through. The reason the validator warns you about having a
background-color defined with your (text)
Actually, its the exact opposite.
Um, no its not. The validator doesn't take the cascade into account.
div.test {
background: #FFF;
color: #000;
}
div.test a {
color: #C00;
}
will produce a warning on the div.test a {} rule even though the red
hyperlink will only
On 16/06/06, Richard Allsebrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, its the exact opposite.
Um, no its not. The validator doesn't take the cascade into account.
Please read what I said - you have to account for the user style sheet
and browser default stylesheet too.
div.test {
On 16/06/06, Richard Allsebrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I said was The validator doesn't take the cascade into account -
and that is true.
No, it isn't.
An author rule (rule 1) sets a colour, but not a background colour.
Another author rule (rule 2) sets a background colour that (due to
Hi Dale
Technically you are supposed to specify a background *every* time you
specify a foreground (and vise versa).
The problem is that the validator seems to ignore the 'Cascade' part of
cascading style sheets (and also, doesn't look at the mark-up) so has no
real clue as to which
On 15/06/06, Richard Allsebrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is that the validator seems to ignore the 'Cascade' part of
cascading style sheets
Actually, its the exact opposite.
BECAUSE of the cascade, you can end up with your forground colour
being displayed against a background
Thank you for the reply,
David Dorward wrote:
On 15/06/06, Richard Allsebrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is that the validator seems to ignore the 'Cascade' part of
cascading style sheets
Actually, its the exact opposite.
BECAUSE of the cascade, you can end up with your
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:52:42 -0500, Dale Lists wrote:
So it would seem that I now need to define a:link, a:hover, etc for
each place where there may be a different background color for each div
I may use a link in. That both kind of makes sense, but also would seem
to make things far more
Hello,
Sorry if this is a foolish question, but I haven't found the answer
elsewhere so far. I have a small site at http://www.bear.net/ - the css
is at http://www.bear.net/css/default.css
When I run it through the Wc3 css validator at
