title: CSS: my body tag is not working
body: <p>For some crazy reason my body tag is not working at all.  It is the only CSS that isn't working.  I am trying to have a background behind the content of my website and have the content be about 80% of the body.  So that I can have two bars on either side of my website which kind of acts as a border.  Kind of how there seems to be two white bars on either side of stack overflow.  </p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;
  
  body{
      font: 100%/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      background-color: #000;
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
      color: #000;
  }
  
  #content {
      font: 14px/1.4 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;
      width: 80%;
      max-width:1260px;
      min-width: 780px;
      background-color: #89837A;
      margin-left: auto;
      margin-right: auto;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /&gt;
  &lt;!--Replace link with good web font you want.&lt;link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans+Narrow' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /&gt; - See more at: http://www.newthinktank.com/2011/09/how-to-layout-a-website/#sthash.lWAaNgcS.dpuf --&gt;
  
  &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="CPLS_Stylesheet.css"&gt;
  
  &lt;!--&lt;div class='error' style='display:none'&gt;Event Created&lt;/div&gt;--&gt;
  
  &lt;title&gt;MyWebsite&lt;/title&gt;
  
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
  
      &lt;div id="content"&gt;
  
          HEADER
  
          &lt;div id="contentBackground"&gt;
              CONTENT
          &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--End of contentBackground--&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt; &lt;!--End of content--&gt;
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>No matter what color I change the body tag to the background always stays white.  The content is the correct color.</p>