fieldset legend in IE stays black

**David Laakso** · Aug 21 '08, 02:55 PM

Insufficient information? Provide the entire page (x)html and css-- or better yet, a clickable link to to the problem page.

**JackRbt** · Aug 21 '08, 04:08 PM

Thanks. I've created a minimal test case. The text inside the box is colored, but not the legend, in IE7. The correct weight and size and family do display correctly, though. FF shows it all okay.

Code:

/* Generated by KompoZer */
fieldset {
  color: #336699;
  font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif;
  font-size: 10pt;
  font-weight: bold;
}

and

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"><title>test</title>

<link type="text/css" href="test.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head><body>
<form method='post' action=testing.php name='reg'>
<fieldset>
<legend>Please fill out the required fields and then click Submit</legend>
<p>test text
</fieldset>

</body></html>

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh h... now I see that IE makes me set a style for <legend>, whereas FF does not.

So that gives rise to a new question: is CSS somewhat flaky still, so that I have to always be looking for differences between browsers? Or is this a rare case?

Also, is it a bug? (All attributes but color get inherited.)

**David Laakso** · Aug 22 '08, 12:16 AM

CSS is not flaky. Some say support for CSS among the browsers out of Redmond is flaky.

fieldset legend in IE stays black

fieldset legend in IE stays black

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