221174 - IFRAMES: Background color of parent is used in IFRAME instead of browser default.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154957

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

Description

[Raffaele Ruffaldi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

if the source of a inline-frame has no background color specified, it will be
displayed with the same background as the document containing the Iframe.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a html file with a bg color different than your browser default
containing an Iframe
2. Create the html file to be contained. DO NOT specify any backgtround color
info in this page

Actual Results:  
the page in the IFrame is displayed with the same bg color as the page
containing the IFrame

Expected Results:  
It should have displayed the html in the Iframe with the default bg color

Comment 1

[Raffaele Ruffaldi]

The problem can be solved my specifong the bg color of every HTML file in a
IFrame. BUT, this may cause problem with auto generated HTML like the default
error pages of Apache. (see the url provided for some 404 an exemple)

Comment 2

[Raffaele Ruffaldi]

Attachment: Exemple case HTML

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Bug 154957 explains why we do it this way.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154957 ***