At 6:54 AM -0700 1/19/07, Michael Stevens wrote:
>Being curious I visited that page and it did indeed have the properties
>listed in the order:
>
>[<'background-color'> || <'background-image'> || <'background-repeat'> ||
><'background-attachment'> || <'background-position'>]
>
>But, at the bottom of that property the example is given:
>
>P { background: url("chess.png") gray 50% repeat fixed }
>
>Which does not follow that order. That, and the fact that it is not
>explicitly stated that the order matters, leads me to believe that the order
>does not matter.
No, it doesn't. The "||" is defined to mean something like "or"
with order-insensitivity.
>Of course, that does not mean that some browsers are picky about the order.
There was an obscure keyword ordering bug in Netscape 6.x with
respect to 'background'[1], but no others I've heard about.
[1] See
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/background-position_Keyword_Order
for details.
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