Do you put the background-property in the html or the body element?
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September 9th, 2009
I generally doesn’t make much difference, right? Just curious..
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As far as I know, it only works with the body, but I don’t use html much so I could be wrong.
It does work with body and html, but not in combination with each other. At least not well.
btw I usually use the body tag. That’s the most standard, but maybe someone else has a reason to choose otherwise.
You have a background for your body. Are you using inline CSS or a stylesheet, btw?
As has been noted already, the background image is an attribute of the HTML <body> tag.
Also:
(1) Be sure you’re using CSS to implement a background image. The HTML tag attribute approach may work, but only because browsers are forgiving on backwards compatibility – which doesn’t mean it’s The Right Way to Do It :)
(2) more details: http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_background-image.asp
I usually look at the meaning of the tags. <html> indicates the HTML document, <body> the content of the displayed HTML, which is where you want to set the background properties of.
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