- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:42:34 +0100
- To: Ryan Cannon <ryan@ryancannon.com>
- CC: Jesper Tverskov <jesper.tverskov@mail.tele.dk>, www-style@w3.org
Ryan Cannon wrote:
> Wouldn't
>
> html { margin: 0; padding: 0 }
> head { display: none }
> body {height: 100%; width: 100% }
>
> Do the trick?
No, the HTML element has a height of auto. The BODY element will just
fill that up, but that is not equal to the canvas and therefore it does
not work.
> It doesn't really make sense for the body element to be magical, as
>
> head { display: block }
>
> is entirely possible,
That is also possible in text/html documents.
The point is that in application/*+xml documents which have a xhtml:body
element the 'background' property is not propagated to the canvas as
happens with the HTML BODY element.
> I think the real problem is that the default stylesheet for the
> Mozilla-based browsers includes unnecessary whitespace--which you can
> easily work around.
?
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
Received on Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:42:58 UTC