I have installed the osCommerce module and have found it overwrites some elements of my theme.
eg: a mormally black background with with white text becomes a white background with white text.
Do I assume correctly, that if I change the offending elements from the colour (#FFFFFF) to "automatic" that the theme style.css will prevail and not mess up the layout?

cheers

arbaronx:

It's the first time I see the word "automatic" in a text about CSS. In any case, maybe you're talking about the "transparent" color value.

Cheers.

In MS Frontpage, when selecting font/background colours, you choose any colour or select "automatic"

arbaronx:

That's interesting info. However, I wonder how it's reflected in the stylesheet or the HTML file, since I know of no attribute like "automatic".

Would you check it up? I'm sure it'd be interesting to see what code FrontPage produces.

This, by the way, gives me a chance to quote a book I'm reading now: Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web standards:

Quote:

Cheers.

Here is an screenshot i knocked up to show you the font colour selection in the style.css
the image shows the selection for "h1"

And below is snippet of the code, note that when "automatic" is selected, there is no colour #xxxxxx set. Tho i see bg-colour is transparent in the settings or "a".
...............................
a {color: #D9D9D9; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;}
a:hover {color: #FFFFFF;}

h1 {}
h2 {}
h3 {}
h4 {}
h5 {}

ul {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
list-style: square inside;
text-align: left;
color: #333333;
line-height: 18px;
}
......................

As for your quote re: MS IE and frontpage. Not surprised, might go seeking another html editor.

cheers