Don't sweat the questions as they're good ones. The warnings about colors there are simply warnings as you already know. They're simply saying, 'hey, you're only setting {colour/background colour}. If you inhereit the {background colour/colour} from an ancestor and it's the SAME colour, or simply a hideously contrasting one, things will go snafu.
So it's just a way of getting you to think about your design scheme. The selectors you mention are different: div#summary p #summary p p#summary The first is: a p within a div with the id of summary. The second is: a p within anything with an id of summary. The last is any p with an id of summary. Since both p and div are block level, I leave it up to you to think about why Eric Meyer wouldn't bother with an extraneous div tag. -Michael >From: Trish Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [css-d] background color warnings >To: css-d@lists.evolt.org >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > >I get the following warningsa about "background color": > > * Line : 42 (Level : 1) You have no color with your >background-color : div#utilnav > * Line : 78 (Level : 1) You have no color with your >background-color : div#sidebar > * Line : 92 (Level : 1) You have no background-color >with your color : #profile > * Line : 92 (Level : 1) You have no background-color >with your color : #profile > * Line : 161 (Level : 1) You have no background-color >with your color : a:link > * Line : 165 (Level : 1) You have no background-color >with your color : a:visited > * Line : 169 (Level : 1) You have no background-color >with your color : a:hover > >etc etc etc etc...it goes on... > >Am I doing something wrong in the CSS that can be easily fixed, or do >I need to specify the background color explicitly in each style >mentioned? > >The CSS is at http://www.wildscaping.com/stylesheets/ws_stylesheet3.css > >--- >Also, is there any difference between > > div#summary p > > #summary p > > p#summary > >I noticed Eric Meyer was using the 3rd option (p#summary) in a >tutorial, and I'd never seen it done this way. > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/