- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:20:10 -0800
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, www-style@w3.org
On 01/10/2011 03:50 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > 2011/1/5 Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu>: >> >> I suspect the key part here is this, from >> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#background : >> >> The background of the root element becomes the background >> of the canvas and covers the entire canvas, anchored (for >> 'background-position') at the same point as it would be if it was >> painted only for the root element itself. The root element does >> not paint this background again. >> >> So the background isn't being painted on the box for the<html> to start >> with, hence it would seem that the background-clip of the<html> box >> wouldn't apply, unless something somewhere explicitly says otherwise. > > Agreed. The spec explicitly says that the BPA of the root element is > specially defined. It could probably use a bit of clarification in > background-clip, just appending ", and thus background-clip does not > have any effect when specified on it." to the end of the first > sentence in that note. The background-clip property doesn't exist in CSS2.1, so I think it would be rather incongruous to add such a phrase to the end of that sentence. ~fantasai
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