Transparent

[Neal]

I know transparent is an acceptable value for color, but under what
circumstances? Where is it described on w3c.org?

[brucie]

in post <news:3f**********************@news.rcn.com>
Neal said:

I know transparent is an acceptable value for color,
its not.
Where is it described on w3c.org?

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/colors.html

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brucie
26/December/2003 08:49:32 pm kilo

[Andrew Thompson]

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in post <news:3f**********************@news.rcn.com>
Neal said:

I know transparent is an acceptable value for color,

its not.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/colors.html

Huh! It'd never ocurred to me that 'transparent'
was not a valid _color_, but then, ..I'd never
wanted to set text invisible.

Why would you want to do that, Neal?

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[David Dorward]

Andrew Thompson wrote:

> I know transparent is an acceptable value for color,

Huh! It'd never ocurred to me that 'transparent'
was not a valid _color_, but then, ..I'd never
wanted to set text invisible. Why would you want to do that, Neal?

body { background-color: black; background-image: url(pretty.png); }
div { background-color: black; }
div#somediv { background-color: transparent; }

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[David Dorward]

Neal wrote:

I know transparent is an acceptable value for color, but under what
circumstances? Where is it described on w3c.org?

Ah... it depends.

In CSS 2, transparent is not an acceptable value for a color, however some
properties which accept a color as their value _also_ accept the
transparent keyword. This is desribed in the list of values for that
property.

For example:

'background-color'
Value: <color> | transparent | inherit

However, in CSS 3, this (may) changes, and 'transparent' becomes a colour.

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[Neal]

"David Dorward" <do*****@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Neal wrote:

I know transparent is an acceptable value for color, but under what
circumstances? Where is it described on w3c.org?

Ah... it depends.

In CSS 2, transparent is not an acceptable value for a color, however some
properties which accept a color as their value _also_ accept the
transparent keyword. This is desribed in the list of values for that
property.

For example:

'background-color'
Value: <color> | transparent | inherit

However, in CSS 3, this (may) changes, and 'transparent' becomes a colour.

Ah, now I remember. You can use it for background-color because it's the
default. It would make no sense to have transparent "color" for the text,
hmm.

[Neal]

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in post <news:3f**********************@news.rcn.com>
Neal said:

I know transparent is an acceptable value for color,

its not.

I used "color" as a catch-all word while you thought of it as a specific
property as differentiated from say background-color. That's where our wires
were crossed.