Hello, I have found that styling the html element changes the appearance of a tiling background image on the body element. I suppose this is known, but I didn't know it until now.
I've put up two test pages here to demonstrate it, one linking to the other: <http://ansible.xlii.org/web_design/htmlelement/test1.html> (Tested using Firefox 3.6.13 and Safari 5.0.3 on a Mac) It appears that the W3C recommends *not* to style the html element <http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090423/colors.html#background>. However, on a site I'm working on I found it useful, for most of the pages, to give the html element a background color. Only on one page did I encounter a problem because I want a background image to fill the viewport on that page only and it doesn't. I would like to have some opinions on the subject. Especially, are there other problems that I may run into if I persist in my wicked ways? Or should I change my method and stop styling the html element? Thanks, Ellen ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
