Re: CSS validator report has changed

Graham wrote:
> Two days ago I tested a HTML page with the CSS validator and it passed with
> no errors. Today after making some slight amendments tested the same page
> and received 300 warnings regarding, mainly, colours. Many of the warnings
> were similar to -
>  
> Line : 39 (Level : 1) Same colors for color and background-color in two
> contexts .legalbar and .faqsubheader
>  
> as the two classes have no relation to each other and can't be used on the
> same item what is the point of the warning.

you might logically not put them together, but other than the already mentioned nesting you could also do:

<p class="legalbar faqsubheader">...</p>

since the class attribute can take multiple names[1], separated by white space characters. (afaik, this is a well supported feature.)

- p

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1.
HTML 4.01 Specification
7.5.2 Element identifiers: the id and class attributes
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-class

Received on Sunday, 18 September 2005 13:05:00 UTC