title: Using the body element as a page wrapper
body: <p>Yesterday I had a discussion with my colleagues about using the body element as a wrapper to avoid something like div.page-margins or div.wrapper as a direct first child of the body element.</p>
  
  <p>I like to use the body as a page wrapper and apply all sorts of styles like width, margin, positions etc. on it.
  With a quick search I found these two blog posts [<a href="http://csswizardry.com/2011/01/using-the-body-element-as-a-wrapper/" rel="nofollow">1</a>, <a href="http://tjvantoll.com/2013/01/05/is-it-safe-to-use-the-body-as-a-top-level-container-yet/" rel="nofollow">2</a>] which confirm me.</p>
  
  <p>My colleagues don't like the idea because there once were some problems (IE7 + page zoom) and they are used to use a div.wrapper inside body.</p>
  
  <p>So my question is: Are there any code specific arguments against using the body element as a normal container element?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Addendum</strong>: Because we are defining best practices for our frontend team we want to get rid of some habits- and just using a div.wrapper because someone is used to this is one of those habbits :)</p>