Re: Why does my background-color no longer work?

by "Carole A. Gay" <carole(at)designs.com>

 Date:  Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:46:48 -0700
 To:  Complex <complex_hwg(at)yahoo.com>,
Laurey <laurey(at)semistixstudio.com>,
hwg-style(at)hwg.org,
Complex <complex_hwg(at)yahoo.com>
 In-Reply-To:  yahoo
  todo: View Thread, Original
The .td isn't valid in an HTML tag, only within the CSS.

HTH,

Carole

7/12/02 10:38:09 AM, Complex <complex_hwg(at)yahoo.com> wrote:

>Okay, maybe this will clarify the matter. Maybe it just confuses
>everything.
>
>While continuing development, I put the following style in my
>stylesheet, http://www.scanalytics.com/resources/scana_style_03.css:
>.bordered2 {font-size: 11 pt; background-color: #eee; padding: 2px;
>border: solid 1px #c00}
>
>And then I used the style on the table cell I showed you earlier, like
>this:
><.td class="bordered2">
>
>THAT DID NOT WORK. 
>
>Oddly enough, I made that into a document-level style definition:
>			<.style type="text/css">
>				<.!--
>				.bordered2 {font-size: 11 pt; background-color: #eee; padding: 2px;
>border: solid 1px #c00}
>				-->
>			<./style>
>
>And THAT DID WORK. 
>
>I know that my page (in this case, the constantly-changing 
>http://www.scanalytics.com/webtest/index.shtml) IS seeing the
>stylesheet, because other elements of the page are being styled
>properly.
>
>Suffice to say, I would _love_ to hear anyone's ideas on why this style
>definition did not work from the external stylesheet.
>I'd also still like to know how I broke those two horizontal lines.
>
>Thanks again,
>complex
>
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Carole Gay

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