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I don't think having separate background properties would have helped in this situation since the background-image is used when specified, and the background-color is only applied underneath that image. You would have to reset the image to none and supply the colour to effect the requested change.

The problem is that background-color: blue doesn’t override background: red url(foo.png) no-repeat. But if it was coded as as background-color:red; background-image: url(foo.png);background-repeat: no-repeat, it would.

Why doesn’t it work in jQuery UI to override the background-color, but it does to override background?

Nevermind! I re-read your post. the gray in the background in UI is an image not a color. 

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