- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:29:08 +0100 (BST)
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- cc: www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, L. David Baron wrote:
> I think, BTW, that a further addition to the errata for
> background-position is needed so that it behaves correctly.
> Percentages for 'background-position' on the root element should be
> relative to the canvas, not the element's box, since the background
> covers the entire canvas [2]. (I assume that the canvas is scrolled
> in a typical browser, rather than containing scrollbars.)
If you did that, though, it would cause problems with the HTML
element's borders.
For example:
HTML {
margin: 50px; padding: 50px; border: 20px solid lime;
background: green url(nice-header.png) top center no-repeat;
color: yellow;
}
...where nice-header.png is 100px tall.
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/colors.html#q2
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Received on Thursday, 9 September 1999 15:36:32 UTC