backgound-color not working

[Herman144]

In my style sheet I have:
body {
margin : 0;
background-color : #cfcfdb;
}

The style sheet is linked to the html sheet and works for everything else. The body is still white? The only way I have gotten the body to change is by using bgcolor in html sheet. Am I doing something wrong??

 

[cLFlaVA]

What browser are you using? It worked for me in Mozilla. Are you sure you're not using the style in addition to the bgcolor attribute in the body tag? Maybe you're setting the background-color of the body in two different locations?

*cLFlaVA
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[PattyB269]

There is nothing wrong with that code there so it must be somewhere else. Is that all your code or did you cut some of it out?

Pat

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[Herman144]

I did some testing and did get it to work on a new sheet - so there must be something else in my code stopping it from acting as expected. Thanks all for you replies.

 

[manarth]

You can check your stylesheet validates at

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Otherwise, I'd look for either another [tt]background-color[/tt] declaration, or a [tt]background[/tt] declaration.

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