Posted by Neredbojias on 06/09/06 06:05

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

>>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.
>
> Unfortunately, not in this case. It's a CSS layout with the background
> colour and images in the body, while the warned parts are text DIVs
> with transparent background, going over the images. Should I use
> "inherit" for background-color, all the DIVs would ultimately use the
> background-color from body and obscure parts of the background
> image(s).

Have you tried it? I did just that and it worked (with proper setup.)
Check:

http://www.neredbojias.com/beta/_lr/lra01.html

....for an example. The head of Royo is an image, not a background. The
backgrounds of the numbered page links are inherited (to the body which
contains a random jpeg background image.) The links cover the image
transparently, and the page has no warnings.

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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

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