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From: Albert Ross on 12 Apr 2010 14:05 On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:46:11 +1000, dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: >In article <pt91s5dglq2ra47qciu58auf7mcanngc3j(a)4ax.com>, > Albert Ross <spam(a)devnull.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > >>http://www.combines.org.uk/Combines/intro.html >> >> weirdly there's a grey background to the text in the main column in >> Opera alone, other than that it looks and works more or less identical > >Sometimes these problems arise because of failure to supply a >colour for background to elements. I notice several places where >color (foreground or text) are supplied but not background and >other places where just background but not foreground. The former >is particularly risky. Go through your CSS and fix this up, >supply explicit #fff (if that is the default background you want >for your pages) where you specify color.) See if you can fix this >first before I take a closer look. I'm getting there, just been rearranging the content of some of the galleries and moving stuff around on the server - and discovering on occasion it appends instead of replacing an uploaded file. I see everything twice . . . >The reason that this sometimes happens when a background is not >specifically defined is that you can see an ancestor's background >(which has had a background defined or set by the browser as >default. Yes I suspected something like that, must check what Opera has as default. Which reminds me I didn't check it in Chrome yet either <starts download> >One subscriber to this usenet group - whose name starts >with a B and who rides motorbikes - sets his browser's viewport >background to a colour that makes him chunder* to alert him to >the problem lest he forgets to attend to his elements' >backgrounds. He keeps several spare keyboards. Good plan! I'm trying not to specify too much stuff and leave it up to the user's settings but that's probably worth fixing >An element like P, for example, if its background is not set by >the author, is transparent, that is the default. It is like glass >and you can see the parent or some ancestor that has got a >specific background, be it a colour or an image. > >This does not mean, by the way, that you should always set >backgrounds to all elements. Don't do this, that would be to >overcode! It is just that if you do set a foreground, you better >make sure the background is what you want and there are no >surprises. > >------------------- >"chunder" is an Australian word for "vomit". Others are >"technicolor yawn", "chuck", "puke", "throw up", "spew". And >there are many more here and around the world given the >disgraceful overuse of alcohol by earthlings who fail to abide by >Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean. Yes I have an Australian friend, though he drinks red wine rather than Foster's |