Closed Bug 270097 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

HTML 4.0 Compliance, Bgproperties=fixed, background

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(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 7474

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(Reporter: cppdan-theman1, Assigned: bugzilla)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 I am just beginning to learn HTML. I noticed that <body background="background.jpg" bgproperties=fixed> wasn't behaving properly. 'Bgproperties=fixed' is supposed to make the background stay in one place while the rest of the page scrolls. It worked fine in IE. I'm using Firefox 1.0 (downloaded 11.14.04) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Make an html document with a background picture. 2.Include 'bgproperties=fixed' in the <body> tag. 3.Open the test page with Firefox 1.0 and with Internet explorer. Compare the difference. (in Firefox, the background moves like normal) Actual Results: Firefox apparently didn't recognize the command 'bgproperties'. Does this make Firefox not HTML 4.0 compliant? Expected Results: Firefox should have had the background image remain stationary (or is it 'stationery'?) while the body of the page scrolled. I'm using Win. XP with SP2 installed.
Summary: HTML 4.0 Compliance, Bgproperties=fixed → HTML 4.0 Compliance, Bgproperties=fixed, background
AFAIK, bgproperties isn't part of *any* W3C HTML spec, and it's definitely not part of WC3 HTML 4.01 (http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/). It's an IE-only attribute, first introduced in IE v2.0 ... best reference I could find was: > bgproperties - This attribute, first introduced in Internet Explorer 2, > has one value, fixed, which causes the background image to act as a fixed > watermark and not to scroll. ( -- http://www.htmlref.com/reference/appa/tag_body.htm) In the HTML 4.0 spec, even the background attribute is depricated, as CSS is really the place to be specifying such things. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/colors.html#background-properties
Two tips: when you are wondering about something like this, google it - google bgproperties brings up an MSDN page as the first result (bad sign), and at the bottom of that page, it says " There is no public standard that applies to this property." which means Moz almost certainly won't do it, or won't do it the same way; and, before you file a bug, use the https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi?format=specific search form with status=All to include dups, so you can tell before you add another. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7474 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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