That did it, so is this reverse cascading :)?
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:53 PM, David Hucklesby <huckle...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/9/14, 12:11 PM, Chris Rockwell wrote: > >> Interesting Chris. I'v always styled the <body> with margins, >>>> >>> positioning, sometimes padding...etc and it always has an effect. But >> have >> you applied colors, images to that? This pen shows what I'm referring to >> (and >> I've never experienced because of my mark-up conventions): >> http://codepen.io/anon/pen/fkyEF. >> >> Notice the border and padding honor the width, but not the color. I wonder >> why... >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> > > I believe that's because backgrounds on <body> propagate to the viewport - > that's the root (<html>) element. Unless, that is, you have a background > specified for <html>. > > Try adding this to your pen's CSS: > > html { background-color: white; } > -- > Cordially, > David > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > 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/ > -- Chris Rockwell ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
