What purpose does setting the background color serve for me?

I'm feeling a bit perplexed about this situation. I've been trying to make a textarea inside a div function properly in IE7, IE8, and IE9, and accidentally changing the styling from "none" to a color seemed to do the trick.

Could someone shed some light on this for me?

I apologize for the chaotic setup. Once I understand the background issue, I'll transfer all the styling to a CSS file.

Before:

<textarea id="chatWindowMessageArea" style="position: absolute; display: block; margin: 0;
                    padding: 0; border: none; float: none; clear: none; left: 35px; top: 302px; width: 315px;
                    max-width: 315px; min-width: 315px; height: 63px; max-height: 63px; min-height: 63px;
                    z-index: 2; background-color: transparent; background: none; font-style: normal;
                    font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; text-shadow: none;
                    list-style: none; text-align: left; outline: none; text-indent: 0px; -moz-box-shadow: none;
                    -webkit-box-shadow: none; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;
                    color: black; vertical-align: top; resize: none; overflow: auto;" type="text"
                    name="chat">
                </textarea>

After:

<textarea id="chatWindowMessageArea" style="position: absolute; display: block; margin: 0;
                    padding: 0; border: none; float: none; clear: none; left: 35px; top: 302px; width: 315px;
                    max-width: 315px; min-width: 315px; height: 63px; max-height: 63px; min-height: 63px;
                    z-index: 2; background-color: transparent; background: #FFFFFF; font-style: normal;
                    font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; text-shadow: none;
                    list-style: none; text-align: left; outline: none; text-indent: 0px; -moz-box-shadow: none;
                    -webkit-box-shadow: none; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;
                    color: black; vertical-align: top; resize: none; overflow: auto;" type="text"
                    name="chat">
                </textarea>
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Answer №1

When you apply background: none, it results in a completely transparent background.

Due to this, there is no clickable area as the invisible box essentially acts as a window to what lies beneath it.

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