Re: [css-d] background color/color declarations - why?

2005-10-26 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Hi Ron, Pringle, Ron wrote: snip Again, no color or background-color is applied to this since all paragraph text is colored on the p tag and I obviously want the background image in the secondaryBottom div to show through. And yet the validator throws specific errors indicating that I haven't

Re: [css-d] background color/color declarations - why?

2005-10-26 Thread Adam Kuehn
Pringle, Ron wrote: I'm trying to understand exactly why the W3C CSS validator now spits out errors for instances where you do not declare a color on a property with a background-color declaration, or vice versa. It doesn't. The validator spits out WARNINGS for that situation, not ERRORS.

Re: [css-d] background color/color declarations - why?

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
I originally replied to this off-list, but as the link looks like being useful to more people than Ron, I'll send it here too: Hi all- I'm trying to understand exactly why the W3C CSS validator now spits out errors for instances where you do not declare a color on a property with a

RE: [css-d] background color/color declarations - why?

2005-10-26 Thread Pringle, Ron
Yes. The possibility that someone may have a user style sheet set up with his or her own colors, which may end up contrasting with your colors. So the idea is that if you're going to reset one of the user's preferences (color or background color), make sure you reset both of them so

RE: [css-d] background color/color declarations - why?

2005-10-26 Thread Peter Williams
From: Pringle, Ron I'm trying to understand exactly why the W3C CSS validator now spits out errors for instances where you do not declare a color on a property with a background-color declaration, or vice versa. It's just a sanity check sort of a tip. Just intended to alert you to the