Title: CSS glitch/misunderstanding
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# CSS glitch/misunderstanding

 *  [iampetesmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iampetesmith/)
 * (@iampetesmith)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-glitchmisunderstanding/)
 * I’m new to using CSS to format pages. I grew up in the old wild and wooly days
   of font tags. 🙂
    Anyway, working with WP has been a great learning experience,
   but now I’m stumped. My site is at [http://dragonchasers.com/](http://dragonchasers.com/)
   If you go there you’ll see a green background for the headers, and a lighter 
   green background down at the bottom of the page in the credits section. I want
   them to be the same color, and I’m not understanding why they aren’t. CSS snippets:#
   header { background: #063; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, san-serif;
   font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; color: #fff; margin: 0; padding: 5px 1px 
   15px 10px; } .credit { background: #063; border-top: double 3px #aba; color: #
   fff; font-size: 11px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; padding: 3px; text-align: center; }
   If I change the background value in .credit, the color of the bottom strip changes,
   so I’m sure I’m changing the correct value. But why aren’t they showing as the
   same color? Is there some kind of inheritance impacting the color of the bottom
   bar or something? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  [MathiasBynens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mathiasbynens/)
 * (@mathiasbynens)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-glitchmisunderstanding/#post-38135)
 * Maybe it’s just me, but the colours look the very same green to me :s
 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-glitchmisunderstanding/#post-38136)
 * I think they are the same color. Sometimes the eyes get tricked because of the
   surroundings. I think in this case ithas to do with a whole-lotta-green (at the
   top) vs not-so-mucha-green (at the bottom). I flipped up & down looking at the
   colors, and they appear to be the same to me.
    TG
 *  Thread Starter [iampetesmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iampetesmith/)
 * (@iampetesmith)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-glitchmisunderstanding/#post-38138)
 * OK, color me extremely embarassed.
    I was already to say you’re both crazy! 🙂
   Then I opened two browser windows, scrolled on to the bottom and stacked them
   on top of each other and sure enough, same color. Sheesh, that’s freaky. And 
   I’m very sorry to have wasted everyone’s time.
 *  Thread Starter [iampetesmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iampetesmith/)
 * (@iampetesmith)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-glitchmisunderstanding/#post-38139)
 * Actually, at the risk of beating a dead horse, upon further investigation, its
   an issue with my laptop’s display. The color gets lighter as I move it down on
   the screen. I’ll have to keep an eye on that or it’ll cause me huge grief.
 *  [spacerook](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spacerook/)
 * (@spacerook)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-glitchmisunderstanding/#post-38164)
 * Heh heh, I know how you feel. Check out my site:
    [http://www.spacerook.com](http://www.spacerook.com)
   View the gridded background image by itself. It looks like pure black when it’s
   alone on a white background. I was fiddling with that *forever* today (“Why the
   hell is the image all black when I view it outside of my page?”).
 *  [anavy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anavy/)
 * (@anavy)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-glitchmisunderstanding/#post-38174)
 * Both background color values are #063 – verified by [ColorCop](http://datastic.com/tools/colorcop/features.php)
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-glitchmisunderstanding/#post-38270)
 * You’re falling victim to a problem of contrast. Check THIS out for an optical
   illusion that still stuns me to this day!
    [http://www.optillusions.com/dp/1-67.htm](http://www.optillusions.com/dp/1-67.htm)
   Even when I verify it with a graphic program and eyedropper I still can’t believe
   it…
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-glitchmisunderstanding/#post-38415)
 * You have pointed us all at a very interesting visual *phenomena*. Thanks. I had
   certainly not really thought about this before.

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