Week 2 of CSSWorking with and learning any type of code is much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle for me. If I start out without any idea of the overall picture, I am stumbling around in the dark trying to figure out which piece goes where. I may just assume that all of the blue is part of a sky and then be dismayed and frustrated when the pieces do not fit. So there I sit with all the pieces I need in front of me but unable to sort out how to make them work together to form the final design. Then along comes Vikki and the LVS course in CSS. Just guess what she has in her hand? The cover to the box of my jigsaw puzzle, photo of the final picture and all! She shows me that the blue pieces might not all be the sky, because there's an ocean in the picture as well. Try this shade up here and that shade down there and maybe, just maybe, if you pay attention to the details, you might see the puzzle pieces start to fall into place and the picture come to life. Time to pause from my puzzling ramblings and go check to see if the pieces of this picture are falling into place...in at least a couple of browsers. Cross your fingers for me and hope that I've been paying attention to those details...for a change. *GRIN* ************** Okay, I am back from checking the page and almost everything is working. Here are the things I am having a bit of trouble with getting just the way I want them. First, the background colors on my links are not working. I know they "appear" to be correct here, but that is because they are the same color as the background of the table. I had tried them in a different color and it just didn't work. For this page that's not a big problem, but if I wanted a different colored link background, I'd be at a loss as to how to make it work. Next, when attempting to validate the HTML at W3C, it tells me that "bordercolor" is not a valid tag in the table descriptions. Now, that tag works in both Netscape and IE to create a color coordinated border. It is handled slightly differently by each, but it works to my satisfaction. I tried a homemade attempt at defining some of the table attributes in the CSS source page and it appears that all worked, EXCEPT, when I used the CSS tag "border-color," it was picked-up by IE, but not by Netscape. If anyone knows of a tag in HTML or CSS that will define the color of a table border and also validate, please let me know. Until I find one, I will continue to use the HTML tag of "bordercolor" as it appears to accomplish what I want...valid or not. Suggestions are welcomed !!
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