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Old July 9th, 2003, 03:17 PM
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Question CSS: Is there a "no background color" option?
W3C recommendation
The W3C warns that if a foreground color is specified, a background color should also be specified. Not doing so doesn't result in an error when running the stylesheet(s) through the CSS Validator, but it does result in a warning.

Browser conflict
I want my web site to (both HTML and stylesheets) to be fully W3C-compliant (not even one error or warning). Following the above W3C recommendation does make my entire site fully W3C-compliant but it also makes my site look horrid in Netscape Communicator 4.7.x (at least on Windows 98).

My Question
Is there a way to set the foreground color of something and set the background color to "none" or "transparent", etc? If so, then how?

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Yeap:
Code:
.code
{
font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: white;
font-size: 10pt;
background-color: transparent;
}
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On a related note, if you specify the background-color of an element and want the text color to be that of the entire site, use something like this:
Code:
body
  {
  background-color: white;
  color: black;
  }
table
  {
  background-color: yellow;
  color: inherit;
  }
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Good to hear. Thanks again!
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