short-hand color in background-color (was RE: [thelist] Parent DIV won't take background color)

Kyle @ JustBreathe Kyle at JustBreathe.co.uk
Sat Feb 19 05:23:47 CST 2005


Yup - I can elaborate ... it was too late in the day to be thinking about
this stuff.  I don't know what was going on last night with the short forms
but it is not happening today.  Maximillian had it right with the floating
divs.

Kyle 
 
Kyle Summers
Just Breathe
http://www.JustBreathe.co.uk


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Subject: short-hand color in background-color (was RE: [thelist] Parent DIV
won't take background color)

Message from Kyle @ JustBreathe (2/18/2005 06:57 PM)

>If my assumption is right then your problem is in the style for the body
>element; you currently have the line
>    background:#fff;
>but you need to have
>    background:#ffffff;
>This will then work in Firefox and IE (and probably any other browser).
>It's curious really that the short form seems to be acceptable for 'color'
>but not for background-color.

I've never seen this problem before. Can you elaborate?

Thanks.
-marc

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