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Every time I successfully validate a CSS, I notice that the "Congratulations!" -text is coloured red. This bugs me. Students of communication and cognition sciences (and indeed almost anyone else too) can tell you that in many cultures, red is symbolically a negative and/or warning color. Therefore, the text "Congratulations!" and its color convey opposite meanings to the reader. The color is interpreted first (pre-attentively), text afterwards (cognitively). This has the effect of making the system both slower and less enjoyable to use. I suggest colouring "Congratulations!" and other similar texts green, for example.
Agreed - the fact that the CSS validator uses a <h2> for validation results with no specific class for success/failure is not the best possible UI. looking into it.
The congratulations actually always were in a <div id='congrats'> It was a matter of setting a proper style for it.
must have been reopened by mistake, closing.