Curious problemm on less/css property - css

I'm having a curious problem with Less (bootstrap), in the property border-botom-color (CSS side).
I have this example where the bottom line of the active tab (Section 1) appears:
fiddle 1
And I have this exemple where the bottom line of the active tab (Section 1) do not appears:
fiddle 2
The unique diference is on CSS, at line 5365, in the fisrt example is border-bottom-color: transparent;, and in second example is border-bottom-color: #FFF;
I would like know why "transparent" do not works but putting a color (like #FFF) it works?

it's because ul.nav-tabs tag (parent of a tag) have colored border, the long grey horizontal border (see jsfiddle1 line 5328). you need to set a border bottom color as white to override it's parent border, so it will be look transparent.

transparent just adds a completely transparent border over the top of the one defined by the border property hence the color is shown. #fff is shown over the top of the border and blocks out the other color hence white is shown. You could get around the problem by specifying a color for each border individually.

the reason is because that line is being generated somewhere else. So when you put border-bottom-color:transparent; you are just seeing the other line right through it. But when you make it white, you are drawing a new white line over it.
fiddle displaying issue

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http://jsfiddle.net/AzHUt/34/
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