- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:06:06 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
- To: "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>
- cc: "'fantasai'" <fantasai@escape.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Charles F. Munat wrote:
>
> body { background: red; margin: 10px; padding: 10px; }
>
> Assuming the browsers default background color is white, there should be a
> 10px white band around the page. The body content would then sit 10px
> further inside the red area. Make sense?
Actually, this is not quite true, because of an often forgotten rule
of CSS2 in section 12.4:
# User agents should observe the following precedence rules to fill in
# the background: if the value of the 'background' property for the
# HTML element is different from 'transparent' then use it, else use
# the value of the 'background' property for the BODY element.
However, if you say
html { background-color: white; }
...then your point should be proved (at least in the more compliant
browsers, like Netscape 6).
HTH,
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