>
> >> I'm taking the body element as the "viewport area" and the wrapper as
> the
> >> "content container area"
> >
> >
> > That's how I usually interpret it. I might want my content to have an
> > explicit width, but I'd like an unlimited-width repeating background
> image.
> > So <body> gets the background image and div#wrapper gets the width and
> > margins.
> >
>
> You could use the <body> tag as your explicit width wrapper, and put
> the repeating background on your <html> tag as well!  I always forget
> this.
>
> Tim
>
> --
>
> [email protected]
>

Hmm, I hadn't thought about that, but it seems like it could work ... I
have generally avoided styling <html> at all. Not sure there's any reason
to avoid it; maybe I'm just superstitious. ;)

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