- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:06:51 +0300 (EEST)
- To: Justin Fortier <fortierj@cogeco.ca>
- cc: www-validator-css@w3.org
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Justin Fortier wrote:
> If you declare a background-color as "transparent" it will still give you the
> following warning:
> Line : 13 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : a:link
That's intentional, since transparent is not a color. If you set an
element's background to transparent, then the element's content will
appear on its parent element's background. This in turn is determined in
the cascade. Think what happens if you set
p { color: black; background: transparent; }
and the user style sheet contains
body { color: white; background: black; }
> even though your documentation suggests that this is correct.
It's "correct" in the sense of not violating are requirement in the
specifications, just as font-size: 1px or p { color: black; background:
black } is. That's why the message is a warning, not an error message.
--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Received on Monday, 25 September 2006 04:07:08 UTC