Hello,

Thanks for the reply.  I wish almost every day I was using PHP for this site.  

I have a site navigation with a pop up box for Netscape 4.x users.  This is done partly 
using a table.  I want to make the table have the same bgcolor as the page itself.  It 
seems it should naturally inherit this, but if I don't specify a color it comes up 
transparent.  Since different sections of the site have different bgcolors, I wanted to 
have it get this info on the fly vs me having to hard code it for each page.  

You can see basically the same code at http://www.bastyr.edu, though the site I'm 
working on isn't publically available yet.  It's the left hand nav, and again you have to be 
using Netscape 4.x to see what I'm talking about. 

Thanks for any further suggestions. 

Doug


On 5 Feb 2002 at 13:10, Hank Marquardt wrote:

> Only ways that come to mind would be parsing the file, using output
> buffering and parsing the buffer (you can do this in PHP, not sure about
> ASP), outputting all your headers including the BODY tag as part of a
> script that controls said color, or inline some scripting to control the
> bgcolor (perhaps with a cookie for persistence).
> 
> I guess, I'll turn it back on you and ask what outcome you're trying to
> achieve? ... then maybe I can come up with more alternatives.
> 
> Hank
> 
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:30:04AM -0800, Doug Dossett wrote:
> > Hello all:
> > 
> > I don't think this is possible, but I thought I'd ask just in case. 
> > 
> > I'm using ASP with VBScript for server side processing.  I'd like to be able to get the 
> > page being loaded's bgColor.  The only way I can see to possibly get this info is via 
> > client side JavaScript.  
> > 
> > So is there anyway, besides using FSO or something to read the file and parse it, to 
> > get the body's bgColor value on the server side?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Doug Dossett
> > MiscSites.com
> 
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