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Bug 12168 - Shouldn't you have a rule somewhere like body { background: white } or html { background: white }?
Summary: Shouldn't you have a rule somewhere like body { background: white } or html {...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-02-23 21:53 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:00 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-02-23 21:53:16 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#fonts-and-colors

Comment:
Shouldn't you have a rule somewhere like body { background: white } or html {
background: white }?

Posted from: 68.175.61.233
Comment 1 Boris Zbarsky 2011-02-23 22:24:32 UTC 
No, because the default background color is a user preference...
Comment 2 Aryeh Gregor 2011-02-24 00:14:27 UTC 
:link and :visited color are also user preferences in Firefox, but the spec still gives the expected defaults in case the user didn't specify a preference.  If the user wants to change the default rendering, they could install a user stylesheet and decide that p should have margin: 0, but that doesn't mean the spec shouldn't say what p's expected margins are.

(I don't know why these preferences even exist in Firefox if the "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above" box is unchecked, by the way.  On most pages they'll either do nothing or make the page illegible if the author can set their own colors.)
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-05-05 08:13:56 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The default background isn't white, it's transparent. The white you're seeing is the default CSS canvas background. The spec already requires this ("The canvas' background is expected to be white.").
Comment 4 Aryeh Gregor 2011-05-05 23:25:50 UTC 
Oh, I didn't see that sentence (or understand what it meant until you explained it).  That's fine by me.
Comment 5 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:00:53 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1