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background color CSS validation warning
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| Haines Brown 2006-11-05, 11:33 pm |
| A minor issue. When I try to validate a CSS line, I get an error.
The line inside the style for a div is
background-color: #FFFBF0;
The warning (jigsaw.w3.org) is:
Line : 54 (Level : 1) You have no color with your background-color
: #inside
What's up?
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Haines Brown, KB1GRM
Dialectical Materialist
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| Haines Brown wrote:
> A minor issue. When I try to validate a CSS line, I get an error.
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> The line inside the style for a div is
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> background-color: #FFFBF0;
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> The warning (jigsaw.w3.org) is:
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> Line : 54 (Level : 1) You have no color with your background-color
> : #inside
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> What's up?
Literally: you haven't set a colour (for the text) to accompany that
background colour. The validator just gives you a warning, to make
sure you didn't do that by accident. What if you set the background
colour to black, and forgot to change the default black colour for the
text to something more visible against a black background? Rule of
thumb: Always set the colours (background and text) in sets, so you
know for sure there is enough contrast between them.
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Els http://locusmeus.com/
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| dorayme 2006-11-05, 11:33 pm |
| In article <87lkn6ohxu.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>,
Haines Brown <brownh@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> wrote:
> A minor issue. When I try to validate a CSS line, I get an error.
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> The line inside the style for a div is
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> background-color: #FFFBF0;
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> The warning (jigsaw.w3.org) is:
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> Line : 54 (Level : 1) You have no color with your background-color
> : #inside
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> What's up?
The idea is that you may get an unexpectedly clashing or hard to
read or unappealing colour for "text" on top of the background,
inherited unexpectedly or via a user stylesheet.
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dorayme
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| Haines Brown 2006-11-05, 11:33 pm |
| Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> writes:
> Haines Brown wrote:
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> Literally: you haven't set a colour (for the text) to accompany that
> background colour.
Very interesting; never would have guessed. Thanks.
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Haines Brown, KB1GRM
Dialectical Materialist
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