IE background color

[skiflyer]

I have a very simple css sheet which works beautifully in Mozilla Firebird, but is doing nothing in IE... could someone tell me what's going on here? Thanks.

body
{
	background-color:slategrey;
}

table
{
	margin:0 auto;
}

-Rob

 

[luds]

Just guessing here, skiflyer, but I don't think that IE will recognise the colour 'slategrey' written like that as a word.

Try using the hexadecimal number #708090 (that's slategrey on the hexadecimal chart at

http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html

).

Might be worth bearing in mind that colours that have then numbers/letters 1,2,4,5,7,8,A,B,D and E in are not colour safe, and may be changed slightly by some browsers in some screen resolutions.

Hope this helps

Luds

 

[skiflyer]

Yeah, aware of the color safeness, but given the target audience I'm not going for stylistic genius...

You're right about the color though, I had tried red/grey and other words, thinking that'd be good enough... thanks for the tip.

any clue about the margins?

-Rob

 

[luds]

skiflyer,

for page margins you can go for a general margin

body {margin: 20px;} you can use a % instead of pixels if you want.

or you can be more specific

body {margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:20px; margin-left...; margin-right:....;}

 

[skiflyer]

But what if I just want it affecting a specific block element, like my table... I thought I had the proper syntax above.

-Rob

 

[deecee]

table {margin: 0px;}
or you can use psuedo classes

table.zero {margin: 0px;}
table.twenty {margin: 20px;}

<table class=&quot;zero&quot;>
<table class=&quot;twenty&quot;>

depending on what you want to use.

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