I want to have "border-color" displayed with "hr" elements

… and I have problems with it (i.e. the “border-color” being visible) in my particular case.

It all started when the [URL=http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator]CSS validator[/URL] complained about my “[URL=http://tadej-ivan.50webs.com/style.css]style.css[/URL]” file: “[I]You have no color with your background-color : hr.line[/I]“, however, if I added it, there was no effect (or at least I see none), since they seem to be the same thing, i.e. a “color” and a “background-color” properties in this particular case, only that “background-color” takes precedence (i.e. if I use both, and with different values, the “background-color” one is applied); so should I just set it to the same value ??

I was then referred to [URL=http://forums.devshed.com/showthread.php?p=1492627#post1492627]this particural post[/URL] at the DP forum, and so I am now using “[I]background-color: transparent;[/I]“, but still, the “border-color” is not visible in any of these cases below (i.e. with and without “transparent” for “background-color” property)

[CODE]hr.line {
color: #ffffcc;
background-color: transparent;
border-color: #0000ff;
width: 80%;
height: 4px;
}[/CODE]

[CODE]hr.line {
color: #ffffff;
background-color: ffffcc;
border-color: #0000ff;
width: 80%;
height: 4px;
}[/CODE]

thanks in advance, tayiper

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