On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote: > Is this described somewhere in HTML or CSS specifications or drafts? I think > it should be, since it is what browsers do (tested on Firefox, Chrome, IE), > and even though it sounds absurd, I’m afraid pages may rely on it. A natural > place to look at is > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html#the-page > but I can’t find any statement about the body element extending to cover the > viewport as far as backgrounds are considered.
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