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CSS

Posted by Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas
10,910 Points

When setting a background in css why declare transparency?

I keep seeing this lately, and I don't understand it, in all my time of making sites I've never had to explicitly declare the background to be transparent - am I missing something? Why would anyone want to do this? 

.some-class {
  background: transparent url('./images/picture.jpg') no-repeat;
}

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

It's just explicitly stating what is already the initial value for background color. If a background color isn't specified for an element, the browser should default it to transparent. Just just explicitly states that.

Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas
10,910 Points

Kevin you're on fire hah! Ok, so it's kind of like a fail safe...