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Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#colors Comment: legacy-color: should do the empty string check after whitespace trimming Posted from: 91.181.228.87 by ms2ger@gmail.com
Does IE treat <body bgcolor=""> the same as <body bgcolor=" ">?
No. IE doesn't do any whitespace trimming at all.
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