Re: problem importing style sheets

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• Subject: Re: problem importing style sheets
• From: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
• Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:05:54 +0200 (MET DST)
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 > For the BODY selector, you need to change the property that you are
 > using -- it should be:
 >
 > background-color: #993300
 >        NOT
 > background: #993300 

According to the CSS1 spec, both are equally valid. 'background' is a
shortcut property which sets all background-* properties in one
declaration.

It may be that not all UAs support both syntaxes (sp?) though.

Regards,

-h&kon

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• problem importing style sheets
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• Re: problem importing style sheets
• From: GM Chenier <gchenier@cognita.com>

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