can't change body background color using CSS reset

html css yui css-reset

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Solution 1

change your selector to

html, body{
    background-color: #FF0000;
}

Solution 2

brenjt's answer is correct, but I'll provide an explanation for what is wrong and why that solution works:

Your CSS reset file sets the background color of html which is the entire page. You are only setting the body's background color, but your body is extremely small in height since you have no content. Consequentially, you do not see the body's background color.

Just set both the html and body in CSS like this:

html, body { background-color: #FF0000; }

EDIT:

Had you not set the html background color, then body's background color would represent the whole page. But since you are using an external source's CSS reset, you do not have the option of not setting the html properties.

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Updated on July 13, 2020

Comments

Rahbee Alvee almost 4 years

Here is my HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Hover Zoom</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/3.3.0/build/cssreset/reset-min.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" >
    </head>
    <body>

    </body>
</html>

Here is my CSS file code (style.css):

body {
    background-color: #FF0000;
}

but the background color of body does not change.

Without the CSS reset, it works fine. Can you suggest me a better CSS reset, or any other solution?

thirtydot almost 13 years

Your answer isn't fully correct. Setting just the body background works fine, provided one isn't set for html. The relevant explanation is here: dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-background/#special-backgrounds
Devin Burke almost 13 years

@thirtydot: You are correct, I missed that point. I updated my answer accordingly.
thirtydot almost 13 years

What YUI actually wants you to do is set the background on only html - you don't need to also set it on body.