239208 - <hr> not rendering in coded color and line is very thin

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 190655

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Mitch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040329
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040329

My CSS had the following Element code:

HR {
	color : #FF0000;
	background : transparent;
}
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This renders properly in red in I.E. 6.0 and the thickness of the line is
somewhat substantial. In Mozilla the line is off-white and quite thin.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Mozilla treats HR as a block-level element and IE does not, so the CSS required
is different for each browser.  In Mozilla you have to set the background-color
to get a color change.

Try this for good cross-browser compatibility:

hr {
  background : #FF0000;
  border : 1px solid #FF0000;
  color : #FF0000;
  height : 1px;
}

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ian, do you think it would make sense to just use an inset border and set the
color of HR in ua.css?  That way setting both color and border-color from author
sheets will have the same effect....

And if that would make sense, don't we already have a bug on making
-moz-bg-inset a color, not a style?

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

There is a bug suggesting we just nuke all the -bg- styles, making the HR colour
be based on the foreground text colour instead of the background colour. I would
not be opposed to this.

If we want to keep using the background colour, though, then yes, we should
change from using three styles to simply using the normal styles (inset, outset,
solid) and supporting a new color (-moz-bg-color) that works everywhere.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[zug_treno]

*** Bug 310560 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[dolphinling]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 190655 ***