CSS beginner requests advice

[Brian]

Re: background-color:transpare nt (Re: CSS beginner requests advice)

Stan Brown wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I want links to be the same color in different regions of the
> pages, but the different regions have different background colors.
> So I have a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active, and a[name]
> selectors with color and background, then the same five selectors
> as descendants of .maintitle, then the same five as descendants of
> h1, etc etc etc. I could sweep all that away and just have the five
> plain selectors for a, if "transparen t" were safe, but I think I
> read somwehere that it's not.[/color]

Correct, it is not safe. Using transparent can lead to the same
problems as not setting a background color at all.

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[Chris Morris]

Re: background-color:transpare nt (Re: CSS beginner requests advice)

Neal <neal413@spamrc n.com> writes:[color=blue]
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:51:13 +0000, Michael Rozdoba[color=green]
> > Chris Morris wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> Netscape 4 interprets [transparent] as #0a000a and 'inherit' as
> >> #00e000 if you count that as a problem. I laughed/cried a lot
> >> when I worked out why.[/color]
> >
> > It wouldn't be parsing the first seven characters, ignoring/zeroing
> > any non-hex digits, would it? I wonder if anyone's tried to find a
> > word which generates an appropriate colour?[/color][/color]

Well, I thought so. However...
[color=blue]
> If your theory is true, in Netscape 'color: souffle;' would be awfully
> green. I don't think I'm ordering that at the Netscape Cafe...[/color]

Well, I tested this

http://www.dur.ac.uk/c.i.morris/ns4.html

Souffle appears to be a shade of cyan, closer to souffff, I think.
Obviously this isn't solely what's going on...

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Chris

[Steve Pugh]

Re: background-color:transpare nt (Re: CSS beginner requests advice)

Chris Morris <c.i.morris@dur ham.ac.uk> wrote:[color=blue]
>Neal <neal413@spamrc n.com> writes:[/color]
[color=blue][color=green]
>> If your theory is true, in Netscape 'color: souffle;' would be awfully
>> green. I don't think I'm ordering that at the Netscape Cafe...[/color]
>
>Well, I tested this
>http://www.dur.ac.uk/c.i.morris/ns4.html
>
>Souffle appears to be a shade of cyan, closer to souffff, I think.[/color]

Comes out as #00FFE0 (yes E0 not 0E, so cyan like Chris reports) for
me. Odd that.

Steve

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[Brian]

Re: background-color:transpare nt (Re: CSS beginner requests advice)

Chris Morris wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Netscape 4 interprets it as #0a000a and 'inherit' as #00e000 if you
> count that as a problem. I laughed/cried a lot when I worked out
> why.[/color]

I keep trying to work this out, but cannot (despite reading followups
to the post I quoted here). Care to share?

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[Chris Morris]

Re: background-color:transpare nt (Re: CSS beginner requests advice)

Brian <usenet3@juliet remblay.com.inv alid-remove-this-part> writes:[color=blue]
> Chris Morris wrote:[color=green]
> > Netscape 4 interprets it as #0a000a and 'inherit' as #00e000 if you
> > count that as a problem. I laughed/cried a lot when I worked out
> > why.[/color]
>
> I keep trying to work this out, but cannot (despite reading followups
> to the post I quoted here). Care to share?[/color]

The rule that works for these (though acts unexpectedly for souffle,
so perhaps it's not the whole story) is

inherit =:
i Well, it must be a hash, colours start with hashes
n Not a hex digit, call it 0
h Not a hex digit, call it 0
e E
r Call it 0
i Call it 0
t Call it 0
inherit = #00e000

transparent
#0a000a
(and ignore the rest, colour codes are seven characters)

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Chris

[Brian]

Re: background-color:transpare nt (Re: CSS beginner requests advice)

Chris Morris wrote:[color=blue]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> Netscape 4 interprets it as #0a000a and 'inherit' as #00e000 if
>>> you count that as a problem. I laughed/cried a lot when I
>>> worked out why.[/color][/color][/color]

I laughed so hard, I nearly cried! ;-)
[color=blue]
> inherit =:
> i Well, it must be a hash, colours start with hashes
> n Not a hex digit, call it 0
> h Not a hex digit, call it 0
> e E
> r Call it 0
> i Call it 0
> t Call it 0
> inherit = #00e000
>
> transparent
> #0a000a
> (and ignore the rest, colour codes are seven characters)[/color]

rotfl. Wow, I almost pity the clown who wrote that code!

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