I'd probably just make the background of the body black then put  
everything inside a containing div that is set to 99% or whatever you  
want it to be.

Try that.

On Dec 24, 2005, at 11:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I'm having trouble getting IE 6 to read my background correctly and  
> I don't
> understand why. The effect that I'm after is to set the html  
> background to
> black and the body to white and make it width:99% of the html  
> background. Firefox
> understands it perfectly but IE6 wants to expand it to 100%. Why?  
> Isn't the
> body element a descendent of the html root element or have I got it  
> wrong?
>

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