Re: Automated BG Color change?

by "Bryan Bateman" <batemanb(at)home.com>

 Date:  Fri, 8 Dec 2000 10:33:17 -0000
 To:  <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>,
"Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>
 References:  canopy
  todo: View Thread, Original
I also understand that MAC and Wintel render colors differently (same RGB
codes look different )

Have you experienced this?????


----- Original Message -----
From: "Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 5:34 PM
Subject: Automated BG Color change?


> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on an IntRAnet site populated by Wintel and Mac. The Wintel
> machines are running MSIE 4.x > and the MAC's are running NN 4.x >
>
> I have a page broken into two frames, a left and a right.
>
> I want to change the bgcolor (defined by "#EEFF00") in the left frame to
> match the bg color defined in the (various) right frame pages.
>
> For instance, both pages share ("#FFFF00") on the splash page, but the
> first link takes you to a (right) frame defined with ("#800080") -!! UCK
!!
>
> If I have to use page colors like this I atleast want them to not turn the
> viewers stomach as this color combination does !!
>
> So . . .
>
> I need something like . . .
>
> OnClick Change "frame.left"="bgcolor=#FFFF00", to
> "frame.left"="bgcolor=#800080".
>
> Know what I mean????
>
> Any ideas? Because it's a known audience I have no problem with JavaScript
> except the lack of knowledge to write the correct script, however in this
> case I do not own enough of the root to set up any SSI solutions. Which
> figures, this is how I *know* how to fix it!
>
> I have the feeling a Style Sheet solution might do this, but alass . . . .
> the lack of support for CSS (generally) has put me off on learning it in
> depth enough to pull this off using CSS . . . on my own :-(
>
> *Any* suggestions (not to mention appropriate code!) will be greatly
> appreciated!
> Fuzzy.
> <feeling particularly dumb today>
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