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Reload page in style: site light

Although I rarely read my friends' pages directly, relying on the wonder of the Friends Page instead, I notice some things when I peruse new potential "friends" on LJ.

Here's one: if you go to

peppergurl's journal using Netscape or MSIE, it looks just fine. If you go there with Opera, you get black text on a dark blue background, rendering the text invisible. My quest: discover the source of this discrepency. And, thanks to the wonder of the CSS Validator over at the WWW Consortium, I have. Apparently, the wonderful Klee has mistyped a color in her setup, rendering "C02768" as "CO2768" instead. While this is an illegal color, I'm amazed at the ability of the two mainstream browsers to actually display the desired (amazingly bright) pink shade without error. Things that make you go hmmm...

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From:

kaylee.livejournal.com

Would it help to change the color code??
LOL! I had no clue it wasn't working in all the browsers.
Well actually I never tried the Opera browser.

From:

kaylee.livejournal.com

I changed the "co" to "CO" did that make any difference??

From:

andysocial

Sorry, I guess I should have made it more obvious in my post: the C0 is "Cee Zero" and is valid hexadecimal (numbering system used for web colors), while CO is "Cee Oh" and is out of Hex range (hex counts from 0 to 9, then A through F). I just think it's weird that NS and IE both can parse Cee Oh and convert it on-the-fly to Cee Zero. After all, using Opera, I can just hit one button and I see pages using my personal CSS stylesheet, with whatever colors I want. :-)
I know I'm a geek.