I've recently come across two examples where text is invisible because it is the same colour as the background.
The first is http://www.robinhoodpub.co.uk/ then click on the "Eat" icon. This loads menu1.htm into an iframe in a table cell. The table has class Background2 which doesn't specify a colour: .Background2 { background-image: url(images/graphics/brickmakers.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: left top; } The main body is class Colour1 which is grey: .Colour1 { background-color: #999999; } <body class="Colour3"> .Colour3 { background-color: transparent; } Then the menu items are white e.g.: <p align="center" class="Body1">Homemade Soup of the Day <br></br> <strong>£4.95</strong></p> .Body1 { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #FFFFFF; font-weight: normal; } The problem seems to be that NetSurf has given the iframe a white background and ignored the transparency. The background image is present surrounding the iframe. The second example is different. In http://www.bridgeaudio.co.uk/micsprices.htm . This is crap html generated by Lotus Word Pro. <BODY BGCOLOR="orange"> <FONT FACE = "Arial"> <FONT COLOR = "Yellow"> <body bgcolor="Orange" link="Orange" vlink="Orange"> ... <TABLE ALIGN=CENTER BORDER =8 CELLSPACING=4 CELLPADDING=4 WIDTH=100%> <TR ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=TOP> <TD BGCOLOR = "Yellow" ><B><H2>AKG HANDHELD MICROPHONES</TD> </TABLE> Anyway there's a 'presentational hint' that the default text colour should be yellow. The table cells have a background colour which is also yellow. Other browsers default the text colour inside the table cells to black so the text shows up. Before I raise a bug report is this behaviour correct, incorrect or unspecified? -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
