Remember grey!=gray in IE CSS!

[mainegreen]

Though it does in firefox!
Just spent an hour on that one before I realized I spell it the british way.
:eyes:

[charlie]

1. Netscape browsers

have long recognized both spellings, while MS insisted on the Americanized version. I guess Mozilla decided to continue the legacy with its browsers.

However...

To keep everyone mindful of the MS Way, consistency be damned, IE has never recognized "lightgray." No, for a lighter shade of gray, you must use "lightgrey." Moz-based browsers, natch, will handle both.

[mainegreen]

2. That's weird!

I was not aware of that. Not that I'm suprised either. I think I'm just going to go back to the old base 16 rgb method.

[crikkett]

3. remember gray = grey = #333333, #cccccc etc all 6 hex #s the same

Basically, all 6 hex numbers need to be the same in order to accomplish a shade of grey/gray.

Monitors interpret colors as combinations of Red Green and Blue. The hex #s define colors like this: # RR GG BB. In CSS you can abbreviate to #RGB for some colors (all web-safe colors can be abbrev. this way I think).

So if #000 (or #000000) is black and #fff (#ffffff) is white, then the numbers get lighter as you go up the scale:
#000
#333
#666
#999
#ccc
#fff

You can also use values like #DDD and #111 ... a hex digit can be assigned a value of 0-9, and a-f. But 0,3,6,9,c,f are web-safe values (web-safe means the 256 colors that all browsers/monitors render a consistent color and don't substitute some scary taupe or teal on monitors using only few colors.)

I hope this explains things a little.

[crikkett]

4. BTW hex here means "hexidecimal"

although at times I think it's magic :)

[mainegreen]

5. Yeah, I'm going back to that method.

I thought 'gee, it might be nice to actually use the color spellings for css since they provide it'. Silly me.
I still have yet to get in the habit of using the full #000 or whatever shorthand. I still feel the urge to do the full #000000.
:shrug:

[crikkett]

6. Hey, I have a good friend in Maine.

Makes you ALL look good. :)
Cheers, good luck on your site.
-Crikkett (CA)