ceo

Whoa, I was just running a quick validation check on the CSS I whipped up for my new webby and I just about fell off my chair.

For one, line-height: 0; is now considered an error...I don't even know how that ended up in there (I think I accidently C&Ped it from an old CSS but have since stopped needing it). And while they aren't errors, it does spit out a warning for any place you don't define both color and background-color. I use a a few background images, so defining a color would in effect obscure them...so let's just say there were a LOT of warnings.

Oiy.

H

Yep.. I ran into that myself... There's a million warnings now, but fortunately they're fairly simple to fix. There's a really good reasoning behind it, which is more about generosity than anything. A rule of thumb is that whenever you set one color (background or fore) you set the other.

A warning does not mean your code is invalid, but it's something to consider in order to provide the best viewing support for your visitors. It ensures that colors will get passed to the browser properly, which is good to use if you rely on background images. Trust me, your background image *should* show over the color.

ceo

I'm not that far gone, Mike. I know that if you define a color and an image, the image goes over it. I should have been more precise when I was writing above and explain there were divs over the existing defined backgrounds and such so they were sort of causing a tad of insanity with the validator wanting everything defined.

it's my own fault for not being more diligent with defining both, since you really should. But meh. I went through and cleaned it all up and now it is quite spiffery to look at.

Kickersny.com

a good way to be 'lazy' with background-color: and color: is just set the background-color: transparent;

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ceo

Depending on how your stylesheet is, the validator still picks that up as a warning.

TJ09

The validator keeps on adding stuff like #autoXML781424781424
and then says it's producing warnings, when it's not there in the first place.

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