- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:33:24 -0400
- To: GM Chenier <gchenier@cognita.com>
- Cc: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 09:44 AM 12/09/97 -0400, GM Chenier wrote: >For the BODY selector, you need to change the property that you are >using -- it should be: >background-color: #993300 > NOT >background: #993300 > >I've made that mistake myself. Don't assume that the attribute names >that we are accustomed to in HTML are the same for style sheet >properties. 'Background' is a perfectly valid property [1], and its use above is also valid. 'background: #993300' is actually a shorthand for the following declaration block: background-color: #993300; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0% Since 'background: #993300' implicitly sets 'background-image' to 'none', it's actually better than 'background-color: #993300'; the shorthand version would override any background image in the user's style sheet (the user's image may leave text unreadable against the author's colour scheme). As well, 'background' is more widely supported since MSIE3 supports it but not the individual 'background-*' properties. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#background -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNBmK8w/JhtXygIx1AQHTLQL/eLIfF2CzA1lTsJc82h1KmVOCwMUehiGz JO2PSio22GKNZertXcPJLjzMfe9xFVFUKmekB3ALBrZ2wqxgK0/p/ewVDjPsvZa5 9nypHMOuUJVoc4xR6Gs2mChgiaxtRvS8 =wkEe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Liam Quinn =============== http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/ =============== Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/ ====== PGP Key at http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/pgp.html =====
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