[css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread Hugh Guiney
Hi all, new to the list. I recently started a complete redesign of my Web site, and because cross-browser support for CSS3 is finally on the rise, decided to throw in some goodies in the form of rounded corners and RGBA backgrounds. But while working on my navigation list I discovered something

Re: [css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread Hugh Guiney
Thanks Georg. I actually tried throwing in extra decimal places but as mentioned I couldn't even get the *same* browser to agree on how to render it at different font sizes. And I would rather avoid ruling in pixels for anything (aside from raster images) because I am going for

Re: [css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread Hugh Guiney
Since I only want one color behind the text, I tried Philippe's method of just dropping the border declarations altogether and it worked without a hitch in Firefox, Chrome, and IE. I didn't realize that border-radius didn't pertain solely to borders. (It really *should* be renamed...) I did go