You have no color with your background-color - Valid CSS Error

The "You have no color with your background-color" seems to be my only failing, do you guys always define a colour even if it's not needed - surely this is a waste of kb's.

 

That's not an error, that's a warning. The implication is that there exists the possibility of a conflict due to the background and foreground colors being the same or very nearly the same.

It is generally good form to designate the other if you designate one. It's not required.

A very simplistic example of the problems that can arise:

a {
    background-color: blue;
    }

a:visited {
    background-color: purple;
    }

Code (markup):

You might recall the default foreground colors in most browsers are blue and purple, respectively. The text would become invisible against its background.

cheers,

gary

 

Hi,

As mentioned they are warnings only but you can use the color:inherit; attribute - rather than naming the hex - to clear them if they bother you.