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Dec 11.2008

Is there a way to [I]stop[/I] a div from inheriting a background color?

I need a div to have [I]no[/I] background color, but it is inheriting a background color, and I can’t figure out a way around it.

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@felgallDec 11.2008 — There is no such thing as having no colour at all - you either give it the colour you want or let it inherit. Transparent is considered to be just a colour like all the others if that's the colour you meant.
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@damon00authorDec 11.2008 — Yeah, transparent is what I had in mind. It seems to work in IE, but firefox always seems to set [I]something[/I] as a background color.

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