A case can be made for either implementation. BUT, what happens if you place the style on the <body> element? See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#background Note the paragraph starting "For HTML documents..." (which includes XHTML as well), the recommendation is to promote any 'background properties' on the <body> element to the parent root element. Nothing is said about similarly promoting other properties, such as margins. Thus placing your styling on the <body> element should have the desired effect: the background fills the canvas and the margins are imposed on all subsequent content. I do not have the ability to test this. Perhaps someone else can report results. As I recall, the results of styling the <html> element are inconsistent across browsers and therefore best avoided. Chris Beall --- On Thu, 8/13/09, José Carlos Santos <jcsantos@fc.up.pt> wrote: From: José Carlos Santos <jcsantos@fc.up.pt> Subject: Background image excluding margins To: www-amaya@w3.org Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 5:31 AM Hi all, Imagine a HTML page which uses a stylesheet containing a line like: html {margin-left: 4% ; margin-right: 4% ; background-color: white ; background-image: url(sandston.gif) } When I see such a file with Amaya, the background image also obeys the "margin-left: 4% ; margin-right: 4%" request. In other words, the image doesn't extend to the border. Is this the intended behavior? With any other browser that I have access to, the request concerning the margins applies to text alone, and I think that that's how it should be. Best regards, Jose Carlos SantosReceived on Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:13:57 UTC
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