Posted by Neredbojias on 06/08/06 11:13

To further the education of mankind, Vlatko Juric-Kokic <vlatko@pcchip.hr>
vouchsafed:

> I'm fiddling with some pages and went to see whether the CSS will
> validate.
>
> Unfortunately, not.
>
> The validator gives warning "you have no background-color with your
> color" for several elements. But I specifically put in
> "background-color: transparent", which is allowed/required according
> to CSS 2.1:
>
> "background-color
> This property sets the background color of an element, either a
> <color> value or the keyword 'transparent', to make the underlying
> colors shine through."
>
> So why the warning?

Ah ha, I just got done digging into that somewhat and have discovered some
interesting tidbits. First of all, the new validator does not consider
"transparent" a color. Many of my previously unwarninged pages were now
being warned. This pissed me off. However, in trying to fix things up, I
discovered that "inherit" can be used, although maybe not always in the
same way, to accomplish the desired goal. I didn't previously realize (or
such was not the case previously) that "inherit" will allow you to "carry
forward" a random background _in phase_ with the original regardless of
where the secondary container lies. This solves a lot of problems.

In short, after about 2 hours, I had all of my 20 or so affected pages back
to warningless status. It _can_ be done, but you might have to change the
html a little, etc.

--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

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