ISSUE-5

fallback color

A background color that is shown when background images fail to download

State:

CLOSED

Product:

CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders

Raised by:

Bert Bos

Opened on:

2008-04-04

Description:

Some people (e.g., Emrah Baskaya and  Simon Pieters) have argued that there is a need for a fallback color, which is only shown when any specified image(s) cannot be loaded. See e.g., http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2006Aug/0001.html

Elika and Bert decided to take over that suggestion, but simplified. There is only a fallback color for the bottom-most image. See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2008JanMar/0153.html

The editors' draft now contains a specification for

    background-color: <color> [ / <color> ]?

where the second color is the fallback.

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1. Re: [CSS21] last edition: pity (from amikhal@abisoft.spb.ru on 2009-05-08)
2. Re: [CSS21] last edition: pity (from bert@w3.org on 2009-05-07)
3. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from brkemper@comcast.net on 2008-04-08)
4. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from forums@david-woolley.me.uk on 2008-04-08)
5. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from brkemper@comcast.net on 2008-04-07)
6. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from pgaries@fastmail.us on 2008-04-07)
7. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from alan@css-class.com on 2008-04-06)
8. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from forums@david-woolley.me.uk on 2008-04-06)
9. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from pgaries@fastmail.us on 2008-04-06)
10. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from pgaries@fastmail.us on 2008-04-06)
11. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from pgaries@fastmail.us on 2008-04-06)
12. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from brkemper@comcast.net on 2008-04-05)
13. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from alan@css-class.com on 2008-04-05)
14. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from alan@css-class.com on 2008-04-05)
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17. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from alan@css-class.com on 2008-04-05)
18. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from e9427749@student.tuwien.ac.at on 2008-04-04)
19. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from brkemper@comcast.net on 2008-04-04)
20. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from brkemper@comcast.net on 2008-04-04)
21. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from christoph.paeper@crissov.de on 2008-04-04)
22. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net on 2008-04-04)
23. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from brkemper@comcast.net on 2008-04-04)
24. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from annevk@opera.com on 2008-04-04)
25. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from brkemper@comcast.net on 2008-04-04)
26. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from annevk@opera.com on 2008-04-04)
27. Re: fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from annevk@opera.com on 2008-04-04)
28. ISSUE-15 (clip bg color): Clip the 'background-color'? [CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2008-04-04)
29. fallback color for background-image (ISSUE-5) (from annevk@opera.com on 2008-04-04)
30. ISSUE-5 (fallback color): A background color that is shown when background images fail to download [CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2008-04-04)

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