Bad CSS or Bad Opera?

**CiberTHuG** · Dec 12th, 2001, 12:32 PM

What is wrong with this page?

Code:

<html>
  <head>
    <style type="text/css">
      body {
        background-color: 6666CC;
      }
      p {
        color: FF0000;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>This is an ugly page.</p>
  </body>
</html>

I see what I expect to see in IE 5.0 and Netscape 6.1. I see red text on a white background in Opera 5.12, but black text on a white background in Opera 6.0.

***? Is Opera that messed up? I have it in document or author mode, and I have selected to use the author's CSS, but... what?

**JoshT** · Dec 12th, 2001, 01:03 PM

According to the CSS specs, for "accessibility" reasons, you have to set color and background color at the same time per tag.

**CiberTHuG** · Dec 12th, 2001, 02:41 PM

I didn't see that, but it makes sense.

Code:

<html>
  <head>
    <style type="text/css">
      body {
        color: 000000;
        background-color: 6666CC;
      }
      p {
        color: FF0000;
        background-color: transparent;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>This is an ugly page.</p>
  </body>
</html>

Regretably, that makes no difference. Did I do it wrong?

**JoshT** · Dec 12th, 2001, 02:59 PM

Do the specs allow you to leave off the # in front of the color hex? I know you can use an alternate rgb() color format.

**CiberTHuG** · Dec 12th, 2001, 03:10 PM

That was is it. It is now working in Opera 5.12 and 6. Now that I know the reason, I'm a (very) little upset that Netscape 6 didn't break, too.

Thanks.

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