- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 21:08:43 +0100 (MET)
- To: hdejong@bart.nl, www-style@w3.org
On Oct 30, 7:35pm, Hans de Jong wrote: > <H2 STYLE="border-left-width: thin; border-style: solid">some text</H2> > NN4 only sets the left border with a thin width, but MSIE4 also sets the > other sides with medium width. MSIE is correct in this instance. > The specification is not completely clear to me on this point, but one > can read it like this: > - it's necessary to use the border-style property, otherwise the border > isn't visible because of the initial value of none; yes > - if you use one value for the border-style property it should apply to > all four sides; yes. You could also use "border-left: thin solid" [1] to achieve the desired effect. > - because the initial value of border-width is medium, all the sides > without the border-width property are set to medium. correct > I suppose that's the way it works in MSIE4. Is this the correct > interpretation of the specification? It is. > In NN4 it doesn't matter if you use the border-style property. > Apparently the initial value NN4 uses in this case is solid. Also it > makes no difference if you use more than one value for the border-style > property. The other sides remain without border. That is not correct according to CSS1. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1.html#border-left -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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