Posted by Toby Inkster on 02/25/06 21:54

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> Transparent means that you accept that whatever the cascade happens to
> assign as value to the parent element's background property this time
> will appear as the background.

If you control all of the HTML, then specifying something like:

STRONG {
color: red;
background: transparent;
}

in CSS might make sense, because you may know that you'll only ever use
<strong> within <div id="content"> which has an off-white background.

But if there are multiple markup authors, then "background:transparent"
might be almost as useless as not specifying a background at all.

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