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Posted by Edwin van der Vaart on 09/19/05 22:41
Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
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>>I don't know. The validator even knacks "You have no background-color with
>>your color #title h1 {color: #990000; background: transparent;}.
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> Your CSS is unwise. For safe cascading, one should specify a definite
> colour for both properties - or for neither.
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> Specifying background: transparent is, logically, only safe in conjunction
> with specifying color: inherit.
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> Whether this is the motivation for the CSS checker's report, I don't know
> ("transparent" is the default anyway), but it's good advice nevertheless.
> That's assuming you care about cascading with some other stylesheet (e.g
> belonging to the user) that's not under your control. You /should/ care,
> but it's your choice really.
With other words.
You always specify a background colour with a font colour for e.g.
headlines, even when you have already specified a font- and a background
colour for the <body>.
I normally use to know. You can use a transparent background for e.g.
headlines, when you already have specified a background colour for the
<body>.
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Edwin van der Vaart
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