Re: Name for default value of border-color needed

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
To: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>; cwilso@MICROSOFT.com
<cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>; dbaron@fas.harvard.edu <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>;
www-style@w3.org <www-style@w3.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: Name for default value of border-color needed


>> Now, suppose the above rule is instead:
>>
>> DIV {
>>   border: medium solid;
>>   }
>>
>> The first two statements above are still true.  However, the following
>> must equal something (and it shouldn't be the empty string because that
>> means the property was not set in the ruleset):
>>
>> rs.style.getPropertyValue("border-color")
>
>No, empty is exactly correct.  Not setting the border-color means that the
>border gets its color from the 'color' property.
>
>And yes, that does mean that the property was not set in the ruleset which
>is also correct (unlike background and font which reset unspecified
>elemental properties to initial values).
>
>Tantek
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 22 September 1999 21:06:19 UTC