Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 01/19/07 07:03

Scripsit dorayme:

>> Can someone explain the behind the scenes reasons?
>
> But what is the question exactly?

The question was clear enough, though perhaps a bit too implicit. It was
about explaining an apparently unintuitive behavior, and an explanation was
given.

> If you wondering why
- -
> does not display a left border,

No, your clarification did not clarify anything. Your example contains
several syntax errors in HTML and it lacks a crucial piece of code that was
given in the question.

> it is because you have said not to have one

No, _you_ omitted the piece of code for that.

> (the proper way is ": 0" not "0px solid" btw)

What on &Planet; are you babbling? Using duplicate colons (as your
suggestion would mean) makes a CSS declaration syntactically malformed so
that conforming browsers ignore it. The values 0 and opx are (in the given
context) completely equivalent. And not specifying border style in a
declaration like
border-left { ... }
is equivalent to setting it to solid. Thus, you are just playing with
irrelevant variation - in addition to suggesting an extra colon.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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