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? > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/