Sent by Rick Flower on 16 January 2005 03:03
Eric A. Meyer wrote:
> At 21:53 -0800 1/14/05, Rick Flower wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping that someone can clue me in on why the website listed
>> below (a tutorial site) has a solid grey background when the doctype
>> is listed as HTML 4.01 Transitional, but when switched over to XHTML
>> 1.0 Transitional (on my own server) it only has the grey background
>> on the areas that actually have content -- meaning about the first
>> 1-2" on the top of the page. The rest of the page is white.
>
>
> That's because XHTML 1.0 Transitional, in browsers such as Firefox
> and IE6, triggers what's known as "standards mode". In this mode,
> browsers do their utmost to follow the CSS specification (as well as
> XHTML and others) without regard for legacy behaviors. What it's
> doing is correct: the 'body' element is only as tall as its content.
Excellent! That makes me feel *much* better.. Chock it up to being a
CSS newbie on a serious learning curve!
>> Is there a way to get the background color over the entire page
>> instead of the just the area that has content and still have XHTML
>> 1.0 Transitional?
>
>
> html {background: #D6D6D6;}
>
> That's because the root element covers the viewport, which is what I
> suspect your want ("page" is an ambiguous term). In XHTML, 'body' is
> not the root element, and so does not cover the viewport. It may
> appear to for long documents, but that's an illusion: it's actually
> longer than the viewport in those cases.
>
Cool.. I've tried this and it works like a charm.. I'd also like to
thank John Lewis who made this suggestion as well (but at the time I
hadn't actually tried it yet)!
This list is the greatest CSS resource out there! Thanks!
-- Rick
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