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When should the background-color: transparent be explicitly specified?

Asked by LuluDev in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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I am trying to understand the transparent value on the background-color property. Even with non-image tags I often see it used and I cannot come up with the logic behind its explicit use. From the books I have read background-default: transparent is the default, so.... why would you ever set it to transparent.

I am looking for documentation or rules to follow on it use, and maybe a better example than the one below that explains when to set the background-color to transparent.

I thought this example might provide a starting point for the discussion.  When I test the code, it does not make a difference (even if I set my browser color to navy... the body text does not appear when a) background-color: transparent or b) if removed the background-color: transparent. The body text will of course appear if I set the background-color: red!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>The title of the page</title>
<style type="text/css">
h1, h2 {color:teal;background-color: #99CCB3;} /* darker teal on lighter teal */
address {color: #FFF;background-color: #699;} /*  white on tealish */
p {color: navy;background-color:transparent; }
a {color: #006;} /*dark blue*/
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>h1 about the page</h1>
<p>
Body text
</p>
<address>
  &copy; The address would go here
</address>
</body>
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Zone: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Tags: background, transparent, color
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Solution Provided By: SabreCEO
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