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Discussion on: What is the color of a blank page?

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Šime Vidas

The background of the root element becomes the background of the canvas and its background painting area extends to cover the entire canvas.

Human translation: you put a background on the body. The browser will use that as a background for the canvas.

Small correction: The “root element” is the <html> element, not the <body> element.

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Bastien Calou • Edited

Small shortcut, I agree. The <html> is of course the root, but the browser uses the <body> rules as if they were set on the <html>.

"The used values of that BODY element’s background properties are their initial values, and the propagated values are treated as if they were specified on the root element."