how to set the background color of the whole page in css

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I am trying to set the background color of the page at yumdom com to yellow   I have tried the following and it fails    body  background-color  yellow     only a sliver under the header turns yellow      doc3  background-color  yellow     result same as above     bd   background-color  yellow     result same as above     yui-main   background-color  yellow     a rectangle turns yellow ending at where the content ends  I want this rectangle to extend all the way to the footer      Also note that if in the developer tools in Chrome I highlight either one of the html elements above  I get only a certain portion of the page highlighted  A footer and the section below the content remain un-highlighted   I want the yellow to fill the entire space between the header and the footer and leave no white space out   Note that we are using YUI Reset  Fonts  and Grids CSS templates V 2 8 0r4  Many thanks

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Looks to me like you need to set the yellow on  doc3 and then get rid of the white that is called out on the  yui-main  which is covering up the color of the  doc3   This gets you yellow between header and footer

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I ve checked your source code and find to change to yellow you need to adds the yellow background color to    left-padding   right-padding  html   hd   main and  yui-main   Hope it s what you wanted  See ya

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x000D   x000D   lt html gt  x000D     lt head gt  x000D       lt title gt  x000D          webpage x000D         lt  title gt  x000D   lt  head gt  x000D     lt body style  background-color blue text-align center  gt  x000D      welcome to my page x000D       lt  body gt  x000D     lt  html gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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The body s size is dynamic  it is only as large as the size of its contents  In the css file you could use     background-color  black     All elements now have a black background   or  html  background-color  black     The page now have a black background  all elements remain the same

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The problem is that the body of the page isn t actually visible   The DIVs under have width of 100  and have background colors themselves that override the body CSS   To Fix the no-man s land  this might work   It s not elegant  but works    doc3       margin  auto 10px      width  auto      height  2000px      background-color  yellow

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I already wrote up the answer to this but it seems to have been deleted   The issue was that YUI added background-color white to the HTML element  I overwrote that and everything was easy to handle from there

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