Re: [WSG] Is XHTML harmful?

Patrick H. Lauke Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:30:00 -0700

One that I know, but there may be more: in HTML, body is the size of the entire viewport, even if it's empty. In XHTML, it's just like any other block level elements and takes on the dimensions of its content (and if you float everything in the body, it effectively is 0 pixels high). If you define a background colour just in the body, in XHTML it may not cover the entire viewport of your browser if the content is shorter than the viewport itself...so you should apply background colour etc to the HTML element instead

Patrick

John Horner wrote:

Can anyone explain what this means in that article?

 * A CSS stylesheet written for an HTML4 document is interpreted
   slightly differently in an XHTML context (e.g. the <body> element
   is not magical in XHTML

In what ways might <body> be "magical"?

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