Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > On Oct 22, 2009, at 8:33 PM, G. Sørtun wrote: > >> Hugh Guiney wrote: >>> http://www.nospoon.tv/test/bgcolor.html. >>> >>> I have tried this in Firefox 3.5.3 and Chrome 3.0.195.27 on >>> Windows XP and the result is the same. Oddly enough, IE7 renders >>> them exactly the opposite. So, barring that, how do I get the >>> first example to render the same as the second in 2.1 without >>> using the same code?
>> The safest is to stick to your first example only, but declare the >> paddings and border-width in px on both states. All browsers will >> agree on that, no matter which other border styles they pick up or >> not. > > That is the easiest & most cross browser friendly solution. Instead > of rgba(0,0,0,0) in example 2, you could also use the 'transparent' > keyword. That would cover IE8 and 7 (iirc, I think IE 6 doesn't > support 'transparent' for borders) > > Philippe --- Should you use Philippe's suggestion, and want to use this with IE6, know that you can give IE6 a transparent border too: <http://acidmartin.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/emulating-border-color-transparent-in-internet-explorer-6/> Cordially, David -- ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/