288886 - transparency replaced by blue

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[tophneal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217

I'm a webdesigner who often uses transparent tables and iframes.  This page, one
I didn a while back doesn't display the transparency of the menu.  But only in
Mozilla based programs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load page
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
blue instead of transparency.

Expected Results:  
blue instead of transparency.

Comment 1

[Chris Applegate]

You specified bgcolor="transparent". There is no transparent color in the HTML
4.01 standard. You can't even do it in hex; HTML colors are RRGGBB, with no
alpha channel.

But you didn't use a doctype definition, so maybe the proper behavior for quirks
mode is to render transparent as the containing element's bgcolor. I guess that
would be black, like the body. I don't know where the blue came from; probably
just Gecko's best guess at what transparent was supposed to be.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

invalid, see reasoning in comment 1. use CSS background-color:transparent; or
somesuch.