8442 2009-12-04 22:25:59 +0000 background property shorthand parse problem 2012-09-21 14:17:07 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSSValidator CSS 2.1 CSS Validator Macintosh MacOS X RESOLVED FIXED http://babbage.cs.qc.cuny.edu/081 P2 normal --- 1 vickery dave.null caribou info vickery www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 29934 0 vickery 2009-12-04 22:25:59 +0000 Using the background property shorthand, the declaration: background:transparent url(../images/menu_tabs.png) no-repeat -250px; Reports: Value Error : background Parse Error [empty string] But if the declaration is switched to put the horizontal position before the repeat value: background:transparent url(../images/menu_tabs.png) -250px no-repeat; the validator reports no error. But when it lists the valid CSS information, it shows the line with the repeat value first! (Like the code that it complained about.) 30019 1 info 2009-12-08 19:08:01 +0000 W3C CSS validator people, We (dorayme, Jonathan N. Little, Chris F.A. Johnson) stumbled precisely on this bug recently. We hope this parsing bug can be fixed. Thread: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets/browse_thread/thread/6c242cba4e730eaa?pli=1 Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets Subject line: background shorthand Original poster: shapper Please note that this bug applies to other os and other platform. So, Hardware field should be changed to All (not just Mac) OS field should be changed to All best regards, Gérard