Re: [CSS21] Make XHTML <body> magic just like HTML <body>

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:17:19 -0600 Message-ID: <45F0D1BF.7070908@mit.edu> To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> CC: www-style@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:28:54 GMT

Ian Hickson wrote:
> The wording difference to CSS2.1 would be:
...
 >       user
>       agents must instead use the computed value of those properties from 
>       that element's first HTML "BODY" element or XHTML "body" element 
>       child

Would it make more sense to add

   of the root element.

here?

In other words, given the xhtml:

<html>
   <div>
     <body/
   </div>
</html>

I don't really think we should propagate the background from that <body> to the 
canvas.

-Boris