CSS Background color is not full, it does not cover the whole page properly

Question

I am trying to add background color to my page, but it does not cover the whole page properly.

Screenshot 1:As it can be seen here, there are white space on the background after the cards:

CSS CODE

#background  
{   
    background-color:#9B59B6;
    margin: -19px 0 0 0; /*-19px here to remove white space on the very top of the page*/
    width: 100%;  
}

If I add :

position:absolute; 
height:100%; 
width:100%;

It would solve the problem, However, it would cause another problem like this:

Screenshot 2:Here, when I added more cards, and scroll it down, there is a white space below the background:

CSS CODE for screenshot 2

#background
{ 
    position:absolute; 
    height:100%; 
    width:100%;
    background-color:#9B59B6;
    margin: -19px 0 0 0;
    width: 100%;
}

How do I solve this? I tried using position:relative or overflow:hidden, But it does not help.

I am doing this on ASP.net MVC 6, so the format is cshtml instead of html.

Please help, Thank you!

Solution 1

Make use of viewheight and viewwidth:

html, 
body, 
#background { 
  width: 100vw;
  min-height: 100vh;
  background-color: #9B59B6;
}

Perhaps make it static (without the min- prefix) and add zero padding/margin to fix a white gap.

Solution 2

body{background-color:#9B59B6;}

This should work. But what is the html element that #background id is set to?

I guess that is where the problem is.

Solution 3

Color the body

 body{
     background-color:black;
  }

Solution 4

Your body is not set to 100% height I think.

html, body {
    height: 100%;
}

and then

#background {
    height: 100%;
}

But why not set the background color property directly to the body ?

Solution 5

body{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}

#background
{ 
    position:absolute; 
    height:100%; 
    width:100%;
    background-color:#9B59B6;
    margin: 0px 0 0 0;

}

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Comments

[Ro Yo Mi]

Can you edit your proposed answer to expand on what this does and how it addresses the OP?

[Jason Christopher]

Hi JokerFan, I am doing this not on HTML5. I'm doing this on ASP.net, so the format is a little bit different, It uses div instead of body. I will edit the question a bit. Thanks for the input!

[Jason Christopher]

I tried, but it is exactly like in screenshot 1, it does not cover the whole page. It only covers up to the last cards. i am doing this on cshtml ASP.net so I can't use the body property.

[ZebraCoder]

I was having a problem when the page is smaller the background was not showing to full of it's height but this solved my problem.