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Should global css styles be set on the html element or the body element?
There's some really interesting discussion about applying CSS to <html> and <body> in order to get some cool effects — like two background images, one transparent (but CSS3 may render that useless).
However, for the standard cases, which element is most appropriate to use for appling page-wide CSS to?
Perhaps there's even some CSS properties that are better suited to one selector over the other? Thus, split among the two?
(This concerns things like cross-browser compatibility, as well as proper semantics according to spec.)
And we can also bring the wildcard * { } selector into this discussion.
I believe that the W3C recommends that you apply any page-wide styles to the <body> element.