Re: Name for default value of border-color needed

Tantek Celik wrote:
> 
> > Now, suppose the above rule is instead:
> >
> > DIV {
> >   border: medium solid;
> >   }
> >
> > The first two statements above are still true.  However, the following
> > must equal something (and it shouldn't be the empty string because that
> > means the property was not set in the ruleset):
> >
> > rs.style.getPropertyValue("border-color")
> 
> No, empty is exactly correct.  Not setting the border-color means that the
> border gets its color from the 'color' property.
> 
> And yes, that does mean that the property was not set in the ruleset which
> is also correct (unlike background and font which reset unspecified
> elemental properties to initial values).

Well, it does reset it to the initial value, but the initial value is an
indirection.

--
Chris