Why isn't my background black?

**Johnnymushio** · 03-24-2011, 01:12 AM

I was trying to make a black background, with a white wrapper.

http://japantown.awardspace.com/divdesign.shtml

**djr33** · 03-24-2011, 01:20 AM

I think it is black, but you just can't see it because the other colors are covering it up. You can specify a height (for example 100%) to make it fill the whole screen. Or as you add content it will automatically expand.

You can also change the body margins to remove the white edges if you'd like.

**Johnnymushio** · 03-24-2011, 02:11 AM

i thought by specifying in the body for a black background color, it would make everything that is white on my page now, black.

how would i do that then?

**traq** · 03-24-2011, 04:11 AM

that's actually kinda odd.

I think Daniel's right about the <body> "shrinking" -or more accurately, "not expanding"- around the content (0 margin or 100% height/width won't make it cover the page because the root (html) element doesn't have a set width).

In all cases, html{ background: black; } should solve things. In Firefox, simply setting the html{} selector (with no rules) will trigger the black background.

As I said, odd. I think this has something to do with how the Initial Containing Block and/or the Canvas inherit properties (they inherit certain properties "backwards," more or less). It's an interesting subject, but I haven't got my head quite around it yet.

**Johnnymushio** · 03-24-2011, 11:42 AM

ok that worked, but is there any reason why the corners are not rounded off?

EDIT

hm, nevermind. when i set the html background to black, it worked. but i also had to set the body background to black or else everything turned white.

the corners were rounded, but i had to get rid of the background colors for each of the three divs.

**djr33** · 03-24-2011, 04:19 PM

Thanks for adding that, traq. Using the html element's CSS is definitely the right answer, since body can't be easily set to 100% in case it might be more than 100% if it's a tall page.

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