Stylesheets - line-height: empty string

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line-height: empty string

Stan Brown

2005-09-23, 7:40 pm

My CSS file validates with one error message. I've stared at the
line in question, and I just can't see what's wrong. Could someone
maybe point out what I'm missing? Thanks very much!

validator:
> http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/...=2&profile=css2
error message:
> * Line: 352 Context : div.clear
> Invalid number : line-height Parse Error - [empty string]
css file:
> http://oakroadsystems.com/screen.css

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Els

2005-09-23, 7:40 pm

Stan Brown wrote:
[color=darkred]
> My CSS file validates with one error message. I've stared at the
> line in question, and I just can't see what's wrong. Could someone
> maybe point out what I'm missing? Thanks very much!
>
> validator:
> error message:
> css file:

I don't know why the validator insists on it, but if you just make it
0px, it passes validation.

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Jan Roland Eriksson

2005-09-23, 7:40 pm

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:23:56 -0400, Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>My CSS file validates with one error message. I've stared at the
>line in question, and I just can't see what's wrong.
[color=darkred]
>validator:
>error message:
>css file:

My guess is that this is a bug in the checking system.

It looks like it is programmed to check if 'line-height' is being
assigned a value "greater than zero" instead of "greater than or equal
to zero".

Negative numbers are not valid for 'line-height' but a value of zero
does not have a sign and so can not be seen as "negative".

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Stan Brown

2005-09-23, 7:40 pm

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:23:56 -0400 in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Stan Brown favored us
with...[color=darkred]
> My CSS file validates with one error message. I've stared at the
> line in question, and I just can't see what's wrong. Could someone
> maybe point out what I'm missing? Thanks very much!
>
> validator:
> error message:
> css file:

Fast work from Els and JRE -- thanks!

Summary: JRE said it looks like a bug, checking > instead of >=;
Els said that a workaround is to put 0px instead of 0. I've done
that and now my style sheet verifies with no warnings or errors.

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