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Property- layer-background-doesnt exist

Apparantly.

Hi people I have seen about
I have a site and have this validation error. You can try firespin.co.uk
(index and onwards) if you want to see the site im trying to validate.

Cant I use background colour for my layers surley I can? ( I meen the layer
I make in DW.)

The site is an old one as I have changed it to now have H1, H2 etc. I had
trouble with this when I was making it but now it's fine changing it after
!?!

Anyway any light would be good as I cant find it on google/in my books. I am
leaning code as well so no DW bashing at me lol!

Cheers Big Ears
James

DJS2C wrote:
> Property- layer-background-doesnt exist

Please provide the *exact* error message you're getting in the future.

> I have a site and have this validation error. You can try firespin.co.uk
> (index and onwards) if you want to see the site im trying to validate.

Please provide a full URI (<http://www.firespin.co.uk/Index.htm> in this
case) in the future.

The problem here is that Dreamweaver is inserting some sort of
proprietary layer-background-color CSS property in addition to the
standard background-color one. Take that out.

By the way, your page has many more problems than that; for instance,
see what happens when you try adjusting your browser's font size.

If I were you, I would start over with a hand-coded page and put your
CSS in a separate file.

"DJS2C" <> wrote:

>Property- layer-background-doesnt exist

Correct.

>Apparantly.

Check the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/propidx.html

>Hi people I have seen about

Yes it was a non standard property that only Netscape 4 used and which
only affected positioned elements ('layers' in Dreamweaver speak, but
more than <layer>s in Netscape 4 speak, oddly enough).

The only point in using it was to make Netscape 4 apply the background
colour to the extra padding area that it added between the CSS padding
and the border. That was 1998, today is 2005.

>Cant I use background colour for my layers surley I can? ( I meen the layer
>I make in DW.)

Of course you can. Use background-color.

Be aware that 'layer' is not a well defined term and shouldn't really
be used.

Steve

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Steve Pugh <> <http://steve.pugh.net/>

"Leif K-Brooks" <> wrote in message
news:...
> DJS2C wrote:
> > Property- layer-background-doesnt exist
>
> Please provide the *exact* error message you're getting in the future.
>
> > I have a site and have this validation error. You can try firespin.co.uk
> > (index and onwards) if you want to see the site im trying to validate.
>
> Please provide a full URI (<http://www.firespin.co.uk/Index.htm> in this
> case) in the future.
>
> The problem here is that Dreamweaver is inserting some sort of
> proprietary layer-background-color CSS property in addition to the
> standard background-color one. Take that out.
>
> By the way, your page has many more problems than that; for instance,
> see what happens when you try adjusting your browser's font size.
>
> If I were you, I would start over with a hand-coded page and put your
> CSS in a separate file.

Yeh thanks for the help. I am doing some hand coding / learning at the
moment. I was quite happy the other week as I had done some nice vailidated
sites etc and now I feel like im knowhere near where I want to be. But I
will, still a new kiddie so lots of time . Im from Print . Words stayed
the same size lol , but it's like 'trapping' some of the problems

Cheers
James

While the city slept, Steve Pugh () feverishly typed...
> The only point in using it was to make Netscape 4 apply the background
> colour to the extra padding area that it added between the CSS padding
> and the border. That was 1998, today is 2005.

Yup. And the college I worked for still had Netscape 4 as the default
browser on a lot of the PC's up until sometime last year!

Cheers,
Nige

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