B.53. layer-background-color
Longtime users of CSS Positioning will be familiar with Netscape 4's unwelcome penchant for leaving a space between the content of an absolute-positioned block and its border. This three-pixel space is in addition to the padding, and is left transparent, even if the block was assigned a background.
This little-known nonstandard property, which works only in Netscape 4, sets the background color of both the main background area as well as that three-pixel space! Although there is still no way to get rid of that three-pixel space, a browser-specific style sheet can reduce the padding by three pixels to achieve the desired rendering, as long as the intended padding of the box is at least 3 pixels!
If background-color ...
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