204299 - wrong css function with "background-color: inherit;"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect)

Description

[Marc Bauer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030429 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030429 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

color isn't inherited! in IE it works.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
see example file attached
Actual Results:  
background behind Test is bgcolor of Body

Expected Results:  
background behind Test in color #CC6600

Comment 1

[Marc Bauer]

Attachment: Example

Example html

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Expected Results:  
> background behind Test in color #CC6600

Why is this?  There is nothing the <td> could be inheriting that value from --
the background on its parent is "transparent".

Marking invalid, since the testcase is rendering exactly as it should per that CSS.

Comment 3

[Marc Bauer]

are you able to tell me what is wrong with this code? have a look with IE on
it... looks correct...

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I can't have a look with IE.

As for what's wrong, you have, basically:

<tr><td style="background-color: inherit">Text</td><tr>

So what's inherited is "transparent".

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

IE doesn't understand background-color:inherit. The reason it looks like it does
in IE is that both cells have an explicit bgcolor attribute. In Mozilla, the
background rule overrrides this, but in IE, it is ignored.

Comment 6

[Marc Bauer]

i tryed different settings with IE and inherit is the only working one. seems 
to be a wrong settings - but without the backround-color settings i'm unable 
to validate my css without errors if a color is set. i cannot realy see a good 
solution with less stress and a w3c validated css. 

however - now without a validated css and i cannot see a real problem.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

How about you do "background-color: #CC6600" if that's what you want?  Note that
the CSS validator flags the lack of a background color as a _warning_, not an
error...

Comment 8

[Marc Bauer]

in this table i can set the bgcolor - yes - but i use the css setting for this 
font on different locations with other bgcolors :-). oh - yes it's only 
warnings... :-). i have overlooked this.